
Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB.

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph: Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there. Allen, ditto to the advice from Pat, but also if this is a laptop computer, the new M.2 SSD should be installed in the laptop to do this clone from the ATI 2020 WinPE rescue media.
