Windows 10: New Hard Drive Fitted - Cloned or System Image File will not boot - fresh install will

I have an HP Elitebook 850 G3. It was fitted with a 180 GB Sata M2 SSD - which is now struggling or free space.

I bought a Kinston 1 TB KC2500 SSD to fit to the M2 slot.

I cloned the 180 GB Sata to the 1 TB - but although the drive was recognised and worked, and was recognised as a UEFI device in the BIOS - it would not boot at all.

I then created a W10 system image file using the W10 backup.

I fitted the 1 TB SSD - booted from a W10 64Bit UEFI USB drive - and installed the image file to the SSD - all 4 volumes were copied OK - but it still would not boot and Windows could not repair the start up issues. There was a large unused partition on the SSD.

The Kingston 1TB device was not recognised as a UEFI boot device,

Secure boot is disabled in the BIOS and this setting has never been changed.


I decided to do fresh install of Windows from the USB stick. This worked OK, but now in UEFI boot list - I do not see Kingston but see Windows UEFI Boot Manager in the M2 slot.

I have 2 Windows 10 volumes - Volume 4 which is my old system image install and the one I'd really like to use - as it has all my drivers and software installed. However Windows will not start when volume 4 is selected - and Startup repair cannot repair volume 4 to let it boot.

Volume 8 has the new install and boots OK - but if I continue with this I have to reinstall all drivers and applications - which will be hugely time consuming for me.


I thought I'd imply put the 180 GB SSD back in and be back to normal - but now it will not boot and does not appear in the UEFI partition table. So I am really stuck now.


Is there any way I'd be able to get Volume 4 Bootable? Or the old SSD bootable?


I will try and post a snip of drive management - disk 0 is a 2.5" ssd used for storage and backup.




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How to clone a hard drive?

I'm a little confused about one thing with this guide.

If my existing HDD is unplugged, and the only thing plugged in is my new, blank, SSD...where is the system image being stored for Windows to restore from?

Edit: I missed the part where it says you'll need an extra HDD to do this, my bad. Do you know if an external HDD would work to store the system image on?

 

Do window 10 offer a clone image feature for backup system?

Hi, oemSoft

I am sorry to tell you that there is no built-in clone feature in Windows 10. If you just create a system image backup, you can follow the steps below to create a system image in Windows 10.

Step 1. Open Control Panel, go to System and Security > File History, then click System Image Backup at the lower-left corner. Or you can directly type backup and restore in the search box and select it from the search result list.

Step 2. Connect the USB drive to your computer and select it as the destination path, then click Next.

Step 3. Confirm your backup settings and click Start Backup.

However, if you want to clone your system directly, you can choose a third-party software like AOMEI Backupper. This is a professional clone software that allows you to

clone system to different places such as external hard drive, USB drive or Network, etc. without booting problems. With it, you also can clone the entire disk to HDD or SSD.

 

Cloning from 1TB to 2TB hard drive

Whats a good free imaging/cloning program? I have a 1TB hard drive with Win7 and I want to seamlessly migrate my stuff to a 2TB hard drive. Any suggestions?