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Restored Macrium Reflect 6.3 image will not boot 'boot disk not found'
Windows 10 Pro, Toshiba Satellite upgraded from OEM Win 8. Created system image w/ Macrium and restored it to a new second HD(HD2). Both drives had a lot of partitions due to Win 8 upgraded to Win 8.1 and back to Win 8 prior to upgrade to Win 10. The laptop will have either HD1 or HD2 installed. I restored the image, later, to HD2 and had no trouble, as a test. Able to reinstall HD1 with no trouble. Replace HD1 with HD2 and no trouble. I had to have the original HD1 wiped, so I made a new Macrium image of HD2, first. After the HD1 wipe and then installing HD2 with no changes to it, it would not boot. I restored the Macrium image to HD2 and it would not boot. I have a Windows Recovery USB, and used it to delete all partitions on HD2. Again, I restored Macrium image to HD2 and will not boot. I can access HD2 when it is connected to a different PC w/ a USB adapter, and get to all on it's C: drive.
In the meantime, I wanted to do a fresh install of Win 10 to the wiped HD1. The only way I was able to do that from a Win 10 DVD was to first delete all partitions on HD1. That was successful. I want to end up with the image on HD2, because it is a 7200RPM drive, whereas HD1 is 5400
NOW MY QUESTIONS
1. On HD2: Was the original Win 8 boot partition required to boot Win 10? (system partition, MS parlance)
2. Does the boot partition need to be the first partition? (that would mean the old Win 8 par. is needed)
3. If the Win 10 boot partition can work on it's own, does it need to be the first? and is there a way to make it so?
4. Since my newly loaded HD1 works, can I copy all of the C: drive from HD2 to HD1 ?
Thank you to anyone who has read all the way through this! I hope I explained all.