Windows 10: cloning Windows 10

Hi,
Not knowing your bios
I would assume enter the boot section,
You should see options and states of those options see if you can see them on top
If not scroll to the bottom and see if it's there
Enter it if so
To disable secure boot all that one has to do is manage secure boot keys
Then you should see an option to delete keys
Deleting the secure boot key will disable secure boot.
F10 to save and exit.

 

You should be good to go as is. This being Windows 10, I would first try without disabling secure boot. Time enough for that stuff if it doesn't work.

 

Hi,
I believe the op has already been trying with the bios as default and just attempting boot to the clone and failing *Smile

 

The boot is uefi is that set in the bios or is it set to legancy tiun on uefi and secure boot try with just the one drive powered up

 

Looks to me like OP only got all partitions properly cloned and advised to remove Disk 0 and give it a try just recently - and that initial try hasn't occurred while they ask questions about number of partitions and the secure boot thing brought up. Don't see why the secure boot thing is being interjected at this early phase.

 

It only shows as boot if you are booted into it.

 

Why on earth are you telling OP to disable secure boot. Windows 10 is secure boot friendly and does not need it disabling to run or be installed. It certainly has nothing to do with cloning either - this is a total red herring.

 

Ok, here is the situation. I have removed my old drive and connected the new one to the same connector. Now bios recognizes the new drive as bootable. But.... not that fast. Here are some pictures of the boot menu I took with my phone:
1. Boot menu



2. Boot Overrides




Strange thing is happening. I have two Windows boot managers in Boot menu. Regardless which I choose the computer is not booting up. It gets quickly to some blue screen not bsod, but rather Windows with nothing on it, waits for maybe 20 sec and restarts. The process keeps looping then. But if I select Windows Boot Manager override, and not just any, but the one that is highlighted then computer boots normally as I am able to post this message right now. Any idea what's gong on?

 

This is normal since you had 2 SSD's with windows installed, each will have its own Windows Boot Manager. However, the UEFI firmware got corrupted and have 2 Windows Boot Manager pointing at the same 500GB SSD. Turn off the PC completely before proceed to next step below.

When you cloned from one disk to another with different capacities, you must rebuild the BCD in order to boot.
Boot up the Macrium rescue disk, click on "Fix Windows Boot Problems", follow the screen to rebuild the BCD then you should be able to boot.

 

Exactly. Hopefully, third advice takes. Some specifics, repeated from above for convenience: https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...+boot+problems

 

- This is your problem -

If you created it after the clone, then trhere are no bootablefiles on the 512MB partition, and furthermore, no links between that partition and C:

Easiest way, use MiniToolPartitionWizard, its free. Make a bootable USb with it, and then clone the DISK (not partition) to the new DISK.

*Smile


If you want to go the more tech route and learn something new, then you need to create & assign/link the BootConfigurationData (CBD) .

 

Can I use Windows 10 installation media that have on my USB? I guess Repair/Fix startup problems?

 

You could try. Let me guess: despite advice to the contrary, you DON'T have bootable Macrium Rescue media???

 

I dont, but I sure can create it. If I put in on an USB drive how much space does it need?

 

Only a few hundred MB. However, it's most important you prep the USB stick properly - it needs to be formatted FAT32 and marked Active before creating.

Please do this first to prep the USB stick: https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...for+Windows+PE

Then follow this procedure to create the bootable MR environment on the stick:
https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...g+rescue+media