Clone attempts for my Windows 8.1 have failed. I tried to clone my laptop hard drive to an external usb hard drive with Acronis. Process will not work. Acronis advised something in Windows prevents a bootable clone from being made to an external usb hard drive. They told me I would have to remove my hard drive and replace it with a new one and then clone from the removed functioning hard drive. I already replaced the hard drive once and the removal requires too much disassembly of my laptop to make their advised process practical. Then they said that the process will work if I have an internal hard drive in a usb hard drive enclosure as the source. I did purchase an additional internal drive and tried the Acronis clone process with the drive in a usb dock. Process will not work through this setup. I hate to purchase a hard drive enclosure only to find out that does not solve the problem. I hope someone can direct me to other software or any method that will produce a bootable clone. For some reason my hard drive has 6 partitions which renders some clone software incapable of cloning so many partitions(Aomei software). I did try partition wizard - the clone was produced but when I tried booting from the external drive the pc will not boot(changed boot priority in bios first of course).
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