Windows 10: I cloned my mom's HDD in her old laptop to a new SSD but now Windows says C drive can't be...

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Unable to Boot to Windows 10 after Cloning old SSD to new SSD

When you say 'recovered the image to the new SSD'. Did you clone from the HDD to new SSD, and why the round about method ?

I've never cloned to an external drive, with the exception of when the machine has an external hot swap SATA port, but I

have cloned from SSD to HDD and back again using a SATA connection without any issues.

The boot sector should get written to the new drive by the cloning software (I use AOEMI ). The software also sorts out

alignment differences between HDD and SSD.

If there is a problem booting with the new drive, if you swap the SATA ports so the new drive is connected to the port the

old was connected to and vice-versa, the boot sector should get written to the new drive when you reboot.

 

windows 10 copy to clone drive

Hi Victorstoicescu,

So have you cloned your original SSD to a new HDD now? If you have done thing like that, you can replace you old SSD with new SSD. Then, clone your C drive from HDD(new) to new SSD. I think you can find a third-party clone software to help you. Maybe you
can try AOMEI Backupper, which is a professional clone software. It has functions like disk clone and system clone that can help you

clone C drive to SSD or clone HDD to SSD easily and safely. And it can ensure secure boot after cloning.

 

Proper way of cloning the OS from HDD to SSD

I bought a new SSD for my laptop, so I wanted to clone the OS from HDD to SSD.

My questions are....





1. Should I clone the recovery and other 3 partitions to the SSD ? (C drive is obvious)

2. If I did clone all the 4 partitions to SSD, should I delete the older partitions from the HDD ?

3. Or can I clone only the C drive and use the other files from the HDD ?