Windows 10: cloning Windows 10

I got new SSD and want to move my Insider OS to the new drive. I used Macrium Reflect to clone my C drive. The files are there by the new drive is not bootable. How can I fix that?

Thanks

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Windows 10 Installed on Wrong Drive

you can directly
clone windows 10 hard drive to SSD. To successfully clone windows 10 hard drive to SSD, you need to pay attention to the following things:

1. before you start to clone, you need to take out extra hard drive. This can avoid your cloning windows 10 on the wrong drive.

2. after you clone, you need to install your SSD on the location of HDD and change boot order via BIOS.

 

What hard drive clone software works with Windows 10

The software AOMEI Backupper can help you clone Windows 10. You can use the free edition so that save a lot of money, and you can totally trust this software cause it can help you

clone Windows 10 and the maintenance products with out data losing.

 

Did you clone the whole drive with all partitions if you just cloned c it won't boot without the other partitions

 

I am not sure. But I think with a partition.



The small 512 MB partition I created after the clone.

 

Often, a quick fix using any partition or disk manager is all that is needed: the intended hard-drive or the appropriate boot partition needs to be marked Active; it's probably already set to Primary.

 

Not sure what you are saying. What are you proposing to so?

 

If you're asking me, I'm simply saying, in my experience, the quick fix was to make sure the boot partition (for example, Windows 7's System Reserved) is marked Active. Or if no System Reserved partition exists, the partition containing the OS is marked Active.

 

But it is marked as Active, but not Boot.

 

Ahhh, ok, I'm in school, have no solution to offer at this time; I will listen in alongside you and let others with more experience and more wisdom than I offer their solutions.

 

You need to redline and clone the whole disk so it clones all partitions and boot record just creating partition after it won't have the files or boot record

 

I tried MiniTool. It copied all partions, but none was marked as Boot.

 

Do the Macrium cloning again, cloning ALL partitions/drives over to the target. You are cloning a DISK, not a drive. If that won't boot, then you should already have created a Macrium rescue USB/DVD that you boot from and use the feature to fix boot problems.

https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...Cloning+a+disk
https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...ue+Environment
https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...+boot+problems

 

Should I delete all partitions from the target drive first?

 

Yes. This can be accomplished from within Macrium using "X Delete Existing partition" (see step 4 in the instructions at the first of 3 links above).