Clone hard drive for HP DV4T laptop with windows 7. Did not boot up after cloning.

I just bought Dv4t laptop with windows 7. I cloned the hard drive and installed the cloned HD to test to make sure it worked. It didn't boot up. I used Acronis 2010 to clone via HD  using USB adapter. I installed Acronis to laptop and ran the Acronis program then selected clone disk utilities and follow the directions. May be I'm not doing it correctly. Do I need to create Acronis boot disk first?
Need help.
Thanks

I've got it working. I had to make boot disk with Acronis. After that stuck that disk in cd drive and restart the laptop then clone the HD.
Now I've got it kept in safe place. Since the laptop is for my kid for her college.

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