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SATA Drive cloning to new SSD drive not booting
Hello,
I have a windows inspiron laptop with Windows 10 and 1TB SATA drive, my drive has been running very slow so I decided to purchase a new crucial SSD drive 2TB. I clone my SATA drive to the new SSD using Acronis clone, the clone was successful, connected the new SSD drive using a usb adapter to another laptop where it shows the drive and I am able to browse all the files. The issue is that once I removed the internal SATA drive and connected the new SSD drive internally wouldn't boot. The error I am getting is Recovery. The PC needs to be repair. A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Error code: 0xc0000225. Press F8 or ESC for UEFI firmware settings. I checked the bios and says: UEFI options: Windows Boot Manager
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Windows Boot Manager 3 times, even before won't show my sata drive on this page and will just show as Windows Boot Manager. Boot Option#1 Windows Boot Manager, Boot Option#2 Windows Boot Manager, Boot Option#3 Windows Boot Manager
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Does the new SSD have the same three or four partitions on it in the same layout as the original drive?
It's best to mirror the setup exactly when cloning before making any changes to capture the additional storage.
the disk identifier has changed and the boot configuration database doesn't have the GUID of this drive
boot from recovery media (i.e. installation disk)
go to recovery options command prompt
find the drive letter that has the windows directory it may not be C:
bcdboot x:\windows
reboot and report back
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Steps we take when in this position:
# TODO First
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
Then:
# TODO Then
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup
attrib boot -r -s -h
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /rebuildbcd
<#
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 1
[1] D:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes<Y>/No<N>/All<A>:
# TODO Y
#>
attrib c:\boot\bcd +h +r +s
Restart-Computer
There's a few more options but they are a lot more risky.
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So in this case when you add this command ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old should be h:\ instead of c:\ ?
Reason is that when I boot up using a flash drive, the flash drive is taking the volume C
replace c: with the drive letter that has the boot files.
Slowdowns are usually caused by excessive or unnecessary stuff installed, & that stuff would still be there.
Did you allow acronis to resize proportionaltly?
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what model PC is this?
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Don't forget to activate the boot partition on the wanted boot disk !
The drive letter should be changed yes.
Once the indicated steps are done the boot is done via GUID so drive letter shouldn't matter.
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Yes I did clone the whole drive with acronis.
I tried changing the boot letter but diskpart would said it was changed but when checking list volumes wouldn't change it. Tried different times with no success.
just select the proper disk in the bios
I use Lazesoft Suite -- its free.
See: https://www.lazesoft.com/index.html
Create the bootable Lazesoft USB, then boot from it to do the job.
It provides two ways to do it.
1. You can clone drive to drive. Both drives must be online at the same time.
2. You save a drive image to a USB or Network location, then restore it to the SSD.
In either way Lazesoft can adjust for the partition size differences. Make sure when you save the drive image or clone the drive that all the partitions are checked!!!
On the other hand, if you don't want to accept those losses, cloning to the SSD makes more sense. First the underlying cause of the slowness on your SATA drive can very well be problems with the drive itself. Mechanical hard drives all have problems eventually and the symptoms usually begin with slower performance. In my experience cloning to an SSD always significantly improves performance.
Its true, some software and some windows junk accumulation could affect performance, after you get the SSD cloned, there are plenty of ways of cleaning it up. while keeping everything (software, settings, etc.) intact.
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The issue is that the bios won't let me select the drive, no info on drives installed, all will say was "Boot windows manager", I wish there was a way to select the disk drive on the bios.
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Thanks all for your suggestions.
Assuming that the new drive is M.2 and not 2.5" ... The M.2 form factor supports several kinds of drives, SATA being only one of them, so the installed drive might have the wrong interface.
But don't expect replacing the system drive to improve performance. There's something else, probably several somethings else, at the root of that problem.