So I have a Windows 10 home edition laptop with UEFI that has a disk going bad. I was able to get Paragon Disk Manager 12 to create an archive of the disk a week ago. But when I attempt to migrate the OS to a new drive, the disk is now far enough gone to not complete the boot partition.
The failing drive still boots in the laptop but I get a pop up window warning of a failing disk. I have a copy of every type of Windows 10 except the home edition and everything i read says the any repair or restore efforts must be made with the edition and version that was installed on the machine.
Is there a way to restore the archive to the new drive and run a utility to make it bootable? Can I use the recovery or Push button partitions in some fashion? I am trying to avoid a clean install. Can I sure another utility like Easy BCD to create a boot sector after restoring all the partitions from the archive? I can use my home computer to put the old and new drive on and then run Paragon or Easy BCD to make the replacement drive bootable. Once back up, then I will upgrade the drive to 10 Pro.
1. disconnect bad drive
2. connect new drive
3. install windows 10, you can shutdown once Windows 10 is installed.. don't need to do the Out of Box Experience
4. connect old drive (leaving old drive connected)
now by booting from your Paragon disk copy from the Operating System partition (old) to the OS partition (new)
The disk ID may be changed so you will have to boot from the OS install disk and do a 'startup repair or the previously described bcdboot x:\windows.