Windows 10: Problems booting win10 after cloned SSD swap

I have recently purchased a SAMSUNG 860 EVO 1 TB SSD to upgrade my existing SSD C drive (250GB OCZ-AGILITY)

Using Samsung Data Migration Tool I eventually cloned the new drive successfully after several failed attempts using a spare SATA lead.

I then openned up the PC and swapped out the old for the new drive.

On powering back up windows10 took me to an error screen that quotes a stopcode 0xc0000218 or sometimes BAD SYTEM INFO CONFIG
Win 10.0.18363 Build 18363
Can anyone help me out?




stopcode screenstopcode screen



config screen prior to disk swap



config screen after disk swap

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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.

 

Unable to boot Windows after cloning it to SSD

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand that you are facing issues while booting the PC after cloning Windows to new SSD. I would like to know what happens when you try to boot the PC to desktop using SSD?



The reason you are not able to boot the PC is that the files required to boot Windows are still recognizing the HDD as the main drive. I would suggest you to try rebuilding the BCD files and see if you are able to boot the PC using
SSD.



Kindly follow the steps below to rebuild the BCD.

1. Create a bootable media and boot the PC using the media.
2. On the Install Windows screen, select Next >
   Repair your computer.
3. On the System Recovery Options screen, select
   Troubleshoot> Advanced options > Command Prompt.
4. Now type in the commands and hit enter: BOOTREC /FIXMBR
   
   BOOTREC /FIXBOOT
   
   BOOTREC /scanos
   
   BOOTREC /rebuildbcd
5. Restart the PC.

If the issue persists, please get back to us with the results of the troubleshooting steps to assist you further.



Regards,

Prakhar Khare

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

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

I use AOEMI free . They use the term 'migrate' OS to new SSD (but it will also migrate\clone to HDD or HDD to SSD).

Ah! Yes, I overlooked the NVMe part of your SSD description. This does rule out any swapping of ports, unfortunately,

but the recent versions of the cloning programs should normally write a boot sector to your new SSD.

You could still connect the HDD to an internal SATA port rather than using USB though... or not ?

- The main difference between an Image and Clone is the clone is an exact replica of your C:\ drive including fragments and

unused space. With an SSD the fragments don't much matter, and when I clone to an HDD I always do a full de-fragment and optimise

(optimising moves files that may be spread out on the HDD into a contiguous order) after doing the clone, but this is

more about performance on the HDD than the final result on the SSD should I need to clone back to an SSD at some point.

(I make a new clone on a HDD prior to every Win10 version update as a precaution should the update bork my OS).

btw - The base of my Win10 is Win7 installed in Jan 2010 which has been cloned to two new machines (using new license keys)

prior to upgrading to Win10.

Still performs as well as a clean install of Win10 I did as a test (and never used because, even after spending half a day installing and getting

the basics sorted out, I would have still needed a lot more time dealing with a lot of games and software).

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