Bootable Hard drive cloning Storage. I just went through this in order to create an exact Acer System copy for the day the original drive fails or some malware wrecks the original MBR and corrupts OS as it did last week and cost me 1. I used a WD drive of the same size as my Veriton Seagate 3. Gigs and did an Acronis Clone procedure As Is. Per Acronis instructions I placed the new receiving drive in the Drive 1 spot with same connections. The scary part was when I removed the original system drive and rebooted after the Loading Windows message, the Acer Bios went to a blinking DOS like cursor and just sat there. Going into the F 1. BIOS Advanced Settings there was another surprise, the WD 3. Optical Drive and my 1. TB data drive were the only choices. The fix was to F 9 reset the Acer BIOS, that immediately brought up the WD 3. Boot Device, F 1. When the machine would not initially boot to the WD clone, I thought there is some proprietary BIOS setting it had been keyed to in the original system disk so it HAD to be that serial number Seagate OR that Acronis had somehow failed in its exact cloning. I am typing this on the WD cloned drive, so I just wanted to post that there is hope that you can do this on an Acer and it can work.
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