Windows 10: Inaccessible Boot Device after NVMe to NVMe clone

I used Clonezilla to clone an HP EX920 to a Samsung 980 NVMe. Then I replaced the HP with the 980 in my PC as primary boot device and it started to boot, showing the Windows loading screen. Eventually it BSOD and had inaccessible boot device.

Apparently Clonezilla set up the partition table using MBR, so I converted it to GPT using GParted. That didn’t help, but did allow me to use UEFI. I booted up a Windows 10 USB and tried rewriting the BCD, running bootsect, all the normal stuff. The partitions all look correct, all my data is there, but it JUST CANT BOOT. I reset my BIOS to optimized defaults as well.

Any ideas?

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