Windows 10: Does Cloning or Imaging with Macrium copy the boot menu?

I recently decided to add Macrium Reflect to my boot menu (for convenience) and it had me wondering...If I cloned or made an image of my computer and copyied it to a new machine, is the boot menu retained?

Meaning...would the option to boot into Macrium transfer over to the new PC or will I have to create it again? I don't see a MReflect partition on my disk but I do believe the BCD store is saved on the C: drive.

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Boot/SDD cloning

Hi,

I would suggest making a bootable CD or Flash Drive of the Macrium... Even the free version should have that ability... Possibly the Samsung as well..

That way there is no running process interfering...

It would be even better if you created an Image of the old drive, and then restored it to the new one... You would also then have a backup image...

When doing this from bootable media, be sure to do a RESTART, not a Shutdown and boot... There is a feature called Fast Startup that may interfere with the process when you try to boot with the new drive.

 

boot from cloned ssd installed on cd drive

Mahesh,

I do not know what is wrong because I do not know anything about the cloning tool you used. I suspect that the missing element might well be the MBR - this needs to be included as it is the MBR that the computer looks to in order to identify the disk to
boot from.

Note that my SSD did not end up with those two additional partitions before the boot partition:-

• Mine just has the System reserved partition before the boot partition. Your first one was probably called the System reserved partition on your original HDD but has lost its name in the cloning - that makes me doubt the success of the cloning procedure/tool.
• I don't know what the original purpose of that 16MB RAW partition was.

• I followed the procedure suggested by the regular forum contributor JWStuart at
  
  How to move from a smaller SSD to a larger SSD. I know that JWS was changing SSDs rather than replacing an HDD with an SSD but the procedure was still generally applicable.
  
• I used
  Acronis TI to restore a system image to the SSD. It was bootable straightaway. [Acronis have always provided a free 30 day trial version that you might wish to use]
• I used
  MiniTool Partition Wizard to set up "partition alignment" / "partition offset" but that was definitely used in setting up afterwards [the SSD booted beforehand with no problems].

The only sensible suggestion I can make is that you repeat the whole procedure using JWS's guide and basing it on a system image of your HDD that is restored to the SSD.

You might also benefit from changing the title of your question [click on the blue
Edit control just underneath the question]. If you call it something like
Cloned SSD does not boot then you are more likely to attract the attention of those skilled in this subject such as JWStuart.

Best of luck,

Denis