Windows 10: Can't boot into Cloned Drive. Am I missing something?

Ok, I'll try to make this short, but detailed:

I'm want to clone my OS from my 2.5" SSD to an M.2. I used Macrium Reflect to clone the drive, and it seemed to work fine, but when I try to boot to it, I get the Windows 10 "Your PC/Device needs to be repaired" screen like this. This is with the original boot drive disconnected. If I leave it connected, it just boots to it like normal.

This is what Macrium Reflect shows me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Cloned drive won’t boot

This doesn't seem to be a Win 10 partition layout. It's missing the Recovery partition.
Seems more like a Win 7 partition layout.
Anyway, my suggestion is to boot from the installation disk and do a boot repair (Shift+F10 - Boot repair).

 

Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

Part of how I keep my SSD fast is to clone it to a platter drive, then clone back. You just want to make sure that you are only cloning teh used space, and not the empty space.


So, again, I isntall Windows to the ssd. Clone to platter drive, then clone back.

I am not sure why, but if I do not do the clone step, the drive's speed, and windows booting, decreases substantially within a week or so.

I am using a Corsair F60 SSD and a Western Digital 500AAKS as drives, and using the free version of Acronis that WD provides, if any of that matters. I am not sure, at this point.

 

cloneing a drive in windows 10

Hi,I have this question last year,but my os is windows 8.there are my steps of

How to clone drive in winodws

,you can check.hope that helps

First,I download a free tool of MiniTool partition wizard and launch it.

Step 1. Connect SSD to Windows 8. Install and launch MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition, select the source hard drive and then choose “Copy”

Step 2. Select a disk to copy the source disk. Here you are expected to choose the SSD (we choose disk 3).

Note: All the data on SSD will be destroyed, so make sure you have done backup in advance. You are allowed to clone a hard drive to a smaller SSD, as long as it can hold all data in the source disk. You can also clone SSD to larger SSD by using MiniTool
Partition Wizard Free Edition.

Step 3. Review the changes you are going to make and also change the copy options if necessary.

Step 4. MiniTool Partition Wizard will tell you how to boot from the destination hard drive. So if you are cloning boot drive to SSD, you need to pay attention.

Step 5. When you are lead to the main interface again, you can preview the changes you are going to make from the middle pane. (Here disk 3 has the same disk layout with disk 1.) If you confirm these
changes, you should click “Apply” to make the changes effective. Hope that helps