Thats something that I have never read about here in the forums. The only thing I see that is strange is why your clone will boot when you insert your acronis boot disk.
You can use the windows repair console to get in there but it requires you to know how to input dos commands. You need to get into the registry of the cloned hard drive. Just remember that for drive letter problems, repair installations of windows, fixmbr, fixboot won't fix it. Solution 1: Disable secure boot Secure boot will be one of the reasons why Acronis clone failed. Even if it did- it will likely have the same limitations of using 'dd'.
They are all based on the above scenarios, you can click the anchor text below and jump to the specific solution directly. I have used Acronis True Image many times (just the bootable Linux CD version, since the install version requires MS-Windows) and it has the ability to do quite a bit, but it is hard to know if their 'sector by sector' option would actually do the job. To fix Acronis True Image clone failed, here are four solutions. But from you describe, once you got a restored hard drive that boots at least half way, you can usually fix it. 4 Solutions to Acronis True Image WD edition clone not working. Drive Image Recovery - The Recovery Manager enables users to restore a drive image from a direct or network attached drive. From my expierence it's always quicker to fix the problem after you restored the hard drive than to try and redo everything all over again. Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive. That's the only way I fix drive letters, I wouldn't attempt to recover a hard drive unless I had a sure way of changing drive letters quickly. Me I would just use Paragon justboot corrector and change the drive letter back to c: a simple 5 minute fix. If you have a floppy drive and a windows98 boot floppy you might try the "fdisk/mbr" command, that will trick the registry into releasing the drive letters and when the computer reboots windows will automatically label the system drive c.