
the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning. It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB.

As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. 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. There are a few differences with how software interacts with a hard drive vs a ssd. To completely protect your PC, use Acronis True Image 2014. It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Yes you can, but Id recommend a fresh install. At any moment, you could experience a disk failure, virus, natural disaster or accidentally delete precious files, such as family photos, videos or financial data.
ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 2014 CLONE DISK HOW TO
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. KB 61665: Acronis True Image 2019, 20: Active Cloning in Windows acronis true image home 2014 portable Buy Acronis True Image 11 Home 64-Bit. See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media If you have ATI 2020 installed on your computer, then you could try using Active Cloning from within Windows which should pick the correct GPT partition scheme format for the target drive, or else you need to boot the rescue media in UEFI / GPT BIOS boot mode.

Enrique, the normal reason for why a disk is shown as MBR when doing either cloning or recovery, is because the PC has been booted from Acronis rescue media in Legacy / MBR boot mode.
