Windows 10: macrium clone system partition to empty usb hard drive. Does not boot

Discus and support macrium clone system partition to empty usb hard drive. Does not boot in Windows 10 Backup and Restore to solve the problem; This old laptop only has one drive bay, so I use Macrium and clone the system partition to an empty drive in a usb caddy. The partition is cloned and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Backup and Restore' started by link626, Mar 24, 2020.

  1. LINK626
    link626 Win User

    macrium clone system partition to empty usb hard drive. Does not boot


    This old laptop only has one drive bay, so I use Macrium and clone the system partition to an empty drive in a usb caddy.

    The partition is cloned and marked active on the new empty drive.

    However when i transfer the hdd from caddy to laptop, laptop does not boot.

    what happened?

    Original hdd is MBR, destination hdd is MBR.
    I selected OS partition as source, dragged it to empty destination drive, and let Macrium copy it over.


    for some reason, the macrium rescue disk I create won't load up in this laptop either. It just shows a blinking cursor when I try to boot from the usb stick.

    :)
     
    link626, Mar 24, 2020
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  2. KLUSIE31
    Klusie31 Win User

    Clone hard drive partition

    I cloned hard drive A from hard drive B. Hard drive B had two partitions, two Windows operating systems cloned successfully to hard drive A.

    Recently Windows 10 took a dump on it's partition on hard drive A. My question is, do I boot from hard drive B to clone the Windows 10 to a like

    partition on hard drive A, and, must I reformat the destination partition on hard drive A or will AOMEI partition assistant automatically take

    care of that???

    Any help I get on this will be greatly appreciated.
     
    Klusie31, Mar 25, 2020
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  3. LINK626
    link626 Win User
    macrium clone system partition to empty usb hard drive. Does not boot

    This old laptop only has one drive bay, so I use Macrium and clone the system partition to an empty drive in a usb caddy.

    The partition is cloned and marked active on the new empty drive.

    However when i transfer the hdd from caddy to laptop, laptop does not boot.

    what happened?

    Original hdd is MBR, destination hdd is MBR.
    I selected OS partition as source, dragged it to empty destination drive, and let Macrium copy it over.


    for some reason, the macrium rescue disk I create won't load up in this laptop either. It just shows a blinking cursor when I try to boot from the usb stick.
     
    link626, Mar 25, 2020
    #3
  4. LINK626
    link626 Win User

    macrium clone system partition to empty usb hard drive. Does not boot

    macrium clone system partition to empty usb hard drive. Does not boot

    i cloned the partition again with AOMEI this time, and the new drive is able to boot now.

    Something is wrong with macrium, because I selected the clone function, put a check mark on the OS partition only, and ended up with a nonbooting disk.
     
    link626, Mar 25, 2020
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