Question: Hi, im using Acer Aspire 5 A515-52-31AW which shipped with 1tb hdd .Recently i upgraded to kingston A2000 250gb ssd and tried cloning OS to it using Acronis true image hd OEM but always stuck on the dialogue box “bootable agent is waiting for removable devices” but the Acronis software in windows had already recognised the ssd .Then after multiple failed attempts i tried Macrium Reflect 7 free and this time it worked and i successfully cloned my hdd to new ssd. The UEFI was showing 2 windows boot manager (the original and the cloned) without the name of drive, and i boot into ssd ( by guessing) and the change in speed was noticable. So i thought of formatting hdd, thinking everything was working well. I deleted windows partition form hdd from disk partition and used cmd clean function to format the entire hdd and made a simple volume out of it. I was not able shutdown after this, looping back to lockscreen every time i tried so. I forced shutdown and now im getting windows error 0xc000000e and booting to bios didn’t change anything.i removed hdd and tried booting, resulting in same error. Anyway i’m sure cloned windows and files are present in ssd and macrium had backup definition file before cloning. Can anything be done to get my licensed windows 10 booting on ssd (other file loss are not a problem).
additional info : i changed sata mode to ahci from rst with optane ( maybe i should’ve done this at beginning to see name of drive next to boot manager )
and there is no legacy mode in the bios.
in summary, my hdd is formatted, cloned ssd is not booting, windows shows error just after acer logo
Answer:
Then I’ll loose the windows licence right? But after the cloning process i booted into the ssd and it was perfect before all this mess . Even if i loose all the files, but manage to keep the licenced windows it would be great.
Reinstalling on a different drive in the same system does not invalidate the Windows license.
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