cloning Windows 10

zolotoy · 08 Mar 2018

I got new SSD and want to move my Insider OS to the new drive. I used Macrium Reflect to clone my C drive. The files are there by the new drive is not bootable. How can I fix that?

Thanks

Samuria · 08 Mar 2018

Did you clone the whole drive with all partitions if you just cloned c it won't boot without the other partitions

zolotoy · 08 Mar 2018

I am not sure. But I think with a partition.

The small 512 MB partition I created after the clone.

RolandJS · 08 Mar 2018

Often, a quick fix using any partition or disk manager is all that is needed: the intended hard-drive or the appropriate boot partition needs to be marked Active; it's probably already set to Primary.

zolotoy · 08 Mar 2018

Not sure what you are saying. What are you proposing to so?

RolandJS · 08 Mar 2018

zolotoy said:

Not sure what you are saying. What are you proposing to do?

If you're asking me, I'm simply saying, in my experience, the quick fix was to make sure the boot partition (for example, Windows 7's System Reserved) is marked Active. Or if no System Reserved partition exists, the partition containing the OS is marked Active.

zolotoy · 08 Mar 2018

But it is marked as Active, but not Boot.

RolandJS · 08 Mar 2018

zolotoy said:

But it is marked as Active, but not Boot.

Ahhh, ok, I'm in school, have no solution to offer at this time; I will listen in alongside you and let others with more experience and more wisdom than I offer their solutions.

Samuria · 08 Mar 2018

You need to redline and clone the whole disk so it clones all partitions and boot record just creating partition after it won't have the files or boot record

zolotoy · 08 Mar 2018

What's the redline?