endurance scales with size. An ssd with a decent lifespan can be moved to a newer machine in the future.

I would. That 250gb mx200 is quite old and very small. ssd prices are high right now unfortunately.



wow. I think I still have the same cpu on an ancient asrock mobo. Cant remember where I put...

also says lifetime 77 in crystaldisk

Refreshed system and having problems

Diskmgmt screenshot only shows the (presumably cloned) new 1tb and some other 4tb. The original 500gb disk is not in the screenshot.

That is an interesting way of doing it.

why capture the original partition as a .wim and then apply it ?






I can see it might possibly be of use if trying to combine oem recovery...

Glad it worked for you Maxirad :-)

please acknowledge on this thread it is solved

where are you up to now?

how about a diskmgmt screenshot and bcdoutput of the new bcdstore

Maxirad

In disk mgmt rt click C and mark it active

open an administrator cmd prompt and type:

bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
(then press enter)

Shutdown. Detach the other disk . Or go into...

Not necessarily an issue. Boot critical files should be on the partition marked Active. That can be the same partition as the os or a different partition.

post a screenshot of disk management...

turn bitlocker off


2024-04-16 13:39:02, Error SYSPRP BitLocker-Sysprep: BitLocker is on for the OS volume. Turn BitLocker off to run Sysprep. (0x80310039)

2024-04-16 13:39:02,...

Been doing it for years with win7
original idea by cdob
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/ff794567(v=winembedded.1001)?redirectedfrom=MSDN...

:-)

post a screenshot of disk management window

Did you check in disk management to see if the partitions exist and if a drive letter can be added?

You could try the free version of recuva and I think puran still does a free data recovery program.

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yes

Is this a wind up?

the bcd entry points at the disk and the partition. So the bootmanager on the os disk can boot something from a different disk.




I dont know what you are asking. What do...

and you need to create the boot critical files on the esp and the bcd entry to boot the .vhdx.

The lazy way is create an esp partition on the disk with the .vhdx, then just copy the contents of...

you might have to scroll down


I just looked at the first post. You have a mechanical disk ? All this time I assumed it was an ssd.

if you do that the disk containing the vhdx will need an esp partition with the relevant boot critical files.

you havent supplied a diskmgmt screenshot. But if the other disk doesnt have an esp,...

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I also said the usual setup is to have a separate esp (system ) partition.

So formatting the os partition ( which you keep calling C ) does not affect the separate system partition.

Have a...

The boot menu entries will be the same as before allowing you to select the now non existent os, or the vhdx.

obviously selecting the os boot menu entry will take you nowhere useful, but selecting...

If the boot critical files are on an intact esp partition, you should still get the boot menu.