Windows 10: Trying to upgrade C: Drive, but unable to boot on cloned drive!

Been trying to upgrade my main drive from a 256gb nvme to a 512g nvme. I've tried using both AOMEI Backupper and making an image of the drive using a Live CD of Linux but both don't work, When i boot with the cloned 512gb nvme it says that "files are missing" and it wont get past recovery mode. I have also tried making a clone on another hard drive in my PC but it refuses to boot from the hard drive whatsoever. It will only boot when the original 256gb drive is in. Please help!

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Cloning Drive C:/

I bought a new hard drive so I could clone my main hard drive. The new drive was formatted after putting into an external hard drive bay connected using USB cable. I right clicked on my C:/ drive & chose copy. I then right clicked on my new hard drive F:/
and chose paste. It then started to copy C:/ to F:/, but it eventually failed saying I wasn't authorized to access certain files even though I'm the Administrator of my computer. It also said I had a bad sector on C:/ drive. I then reformatted C:/ & tried
to make a clone drive onto F:/. All that did was copy over ...

$RECYCLEBIN, Boot, Recovery, System Volume 1, bootmgr, BOOTNXT, BOOTSECT.BAK

It appears to me that all it did was make a boot disk in case C:/ drive failed to boot I could have the computer boot using drive F:/ which is not what I wanted. I already have drive E:/ for that in the same bay housing as F:/.

What I want is an exact clone of C:/ drive, every program & file on it!

Anyone got any suggestions?

 

Multiple partitions found when trying to clone C: drive

Hi,

Most all of the Recovery partitions were probably created as part of an upgrade...

You probably only had one to start with...

You can most likely do without them... I deleted mine...

Some of them may even be empty...

The biggest drawback to doing that is that if you want to do a reset or something, you may need installation media...

You need the EFI and C:\ drive boot... you may need the very 1st Recovery, but probably not...

I would suggest cloning just the EFI and C:\ and see what happens...

The cloning program may or may not let you skip the 1st one...



DO NOT boot the machine into Windows with BOTH drives hooked up... at least not yet...

 

Multiple partitions found when trying to clone C: drive

I am having a problem trying to clone my C: drive on my Windows 10 64-bit system.

I decided to install a new, bigger hard drive and clone my C: drive onto it. I noticed though that my C: drive has 6 separate partitions for some unknown reason.

300 MB recovery partition

99 MB EFI system partition

929.87 MB C: drive boot

450 MB recovery partition

350 MB recovery partition

350 MB recovery partition

I have no idea how I got so many!

I'd prefer the new drive to not have so many partitions when I clone it, but I have no idea if I should try to first delete some of the partitions prior to cloning (and if so, which ones), or to just try and clone only certain partitions onto the new drive
(and again, if so, which ones).

Can anyone help me out here?