USB clone not booting

Welcome to the forum can you post a screenshot from disk manager showing both drives and all details. Are you trying to boot with just the new drive if you have both drives you will get a signature collision as both drives will seem to be the same

Wow, spent the last hour trying to get back on the internet with the new PC. It seems the nic I have is known for intermittant disconnects - intel I225-V! Had to reset my BIOS. Not good.

Anyway here are the screenshots - Hmm...my image links aren't being taken by this editor. Here they are as urls.

https://i.imgur.com/5vuET7B.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/pPt5H2J.jpeg

My software, Image For Windows changes the signature during the copy so that's not likely it. Terabyte just told me how to check the signatures and I'll try it now.

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Strange things going on here. See image below of IFW partition info. Terabyte says the GUID is the disk signature. They are all different in the image, but.....I'm still getting windows Admin Events stating 2 disks have the same identifier, see second image.
So is the GUID the real disk signature??

https://i.imgur.com/IeAmFug.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/EEASFla.jpeg

And here's what diskpart says - they are all different, no collisions but when I unplug then replug the drive I get that event viewer warning.

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 1863 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 1 Online 931 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 2 Online 14 TB 0 B *
Disk 3 Online 238 GB 0 B
Disk 4 Online 14 TB 0 B *
Disk 5 Online 465 GB 0 B *

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: {512B0503-9E1A-4F05-AB4F-8806366B4C8C}

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: {B981546C-2851-4F6E-A3BA-B486CF8DCB62}

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: {2AC2DA92-E5B7-4FB0-A3E0-7321C7FE9FBD}

DISKPART> select disk 3

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: 3902F4C1

DISKPART> select disk 4

Disk 4 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: {7CC1C2EC-8A6B-4805-9DAA-1ED05B55FB55}

DISKPART> select disk 5

Disk 5 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> uniqueid disk

Disk ID: {84BE232A-6CE1-AED6-56D6-DB65237D0200}

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Cloned SSD won't boot

tyeeman said:

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I'd like to follow this post and be done with it -

Cloned SSD won't boot

Was it successful? What is the current status?

When I cloned my 1TB Toshiba HDD to a 1TB Crucial SSD using Macrium Reflect, I changed the unique id of the cloned 1TB SSD to that of the 1TB Toshiba HDD.

To be precise the Unique ID of the the 1TB Toshiba HDD was 59 95 78 81. The Unique ID of the USB connected cloned 1 TB Crucial SSD was C0 A1 FD 64. I changed it to 59 95 78 81. When I removed the 1TB Toshiba HDD and replaced it with the cloned 1TB Crucial HDD the system booted fine without any problem. Please note that this Unique ID resides in sector 0 (Protective MBR) of the disks and is not the GPT Unique id but the MBR Unique ID which identifies and recognises your cloned disk.

If all else fails, try changing this Unique ID and check whether your system boots.

For ascertaining the Unique ID and changing the Unique ID, I used bootice. ( you cannot change it using Diskpart Unique id command unless your disk is an MBR disk)

Check this post here: Is my HDD failing?

"The Unique ID of the current system disk the Toshiba 1TB HDD is 59 95 78 81 whereas that of the Crucial 1TB SSD is C0 A1 FD 64.

" The Unique ID of a disk is created when the disk is initialised. Windows notes this Unique ID and thereafter recognises the disk with the Unique ID. When I replace the Toshiba HDD with the Crucial SSD with a different Unique ID, Windows may not recognise it as the boot disk or so I would presume. So before replacing the disk, I would edit the the Unique ID of the Crucial 1TB SSD to that of the Toshiba 1TB HDD 59 95 78 81 and save it to the SSD."

Are you trying to boot windows from USB as it won't boot the only way is to windows to go you can't run windows from USB

I'm not sure how internationally recognised/understood the phrase is, but we have a saying here in Australia .... "like p1ss1ing into the wind"