Laptop doesn't recognized freshly cloned SSD

in a month or so I’m looking at doing the same thing that failed in this thread…

Would I be better off using Acronis to make the image, and then just knowing I’ll need to boot my imaged drive on SSD twice, once to boot, realize that it has wrong driver for boot drive, load proper driver, and request a second boot… And a second time to have it boot fully???    That is what I’ve encountered before (as long as the drive I’m going to is larger than the drive that was imaged…