

The clone should then be done by booting from the Acronis bootable Rescue Media on either CD or USB stick. The HDD should be connected as a second drive or externally via a USB - SATA adapter. When cloning, the HDD should be removed and replaced by the SSD (so that Windows will still be connected to the same motherboard SATA port & controller). The correct method of doing what you originally wanted to do, to move your Windows OS to the SSD and wipe the original HDD to use for other data, is to either clone the HDD to the SSD or use Backup & Restore to do the same task. Unfortunately you cannot just swap drive letters without the possibility of further problems, especially given that you are booting into Windows from the SSD on drive F: but Windows was originally installed on drive C: - there is a strong likelihood that the SSD uses information from drive C: and wouldn't boot without that drive present.
