Disk Clone results in BSOD

Disk Clone MBR Disk fails.

Ventoy MBR USB > Aomei Partition Assistant Pro 9.15 WinPE ISO
Legacy BIOS
HP i5 x64 Desktop 2013
Source HDD 500GB 2013
Target SSD 2.5" 1TB Sandisk 2023
USB 2.0 ports

Booted Ventoy in Legacy BIOS mode, launched Aomei Partition Assistant WinPE ISO successfully. Confirmed target disk MBR, not GPT partition table. Source internal SATA, target external USB 3 to SATA adapter. Clone aligned for SSD, Intelligent-Sector, not exact-sector; clone successful. Shutdown, remove stick. Removed HDD, installed SSD internal SATA.

Boot Legacy BIOS SSD
BSOD
The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contains errors.
File: \Boot BCD
Error code: Oxc000000f

Troubleshooting:
Aomei Partition Assistant > rebuild MBR
LazeSoft > oneclick fix > rebuilt MBR, rebuilt BCD, fixboot, etc.
Windows 10 > Startup Repair
Diskpart > bootrec /fixboot > bootrec /fixmbr > bootrec /rebuildBCD
Diskpart > lis dis > sel dis 0 > lis par > sel par system-NTFS-partition# > active

What caused this error, and how do I fix it?

BSOD - Posting Instructions

BrutalMoose said:

Disk Clone MBR Disk fails.

Ventoy MBR USB > Aomei Partition Assistant Pro 9.15 WinPE ISO
Legacy BIOS
HP i5 x64 Desktop 2013
Source HDD 500GB 2013
Target SSD 2.5" 1TB Sandisk 2023
USB 2.0 ports

Booted Ventoy in Legacy BIOS mode, launched Aomei Partition Assistant WinPE ISO successfully. Confirmed target disk MBR, not GPT partition table. Source internal SATA, target external USB 3 to SATA adapter. Clone aligned for SSD, Intelligent-Sector, not exact-sector; clone successful. Shutdown, remove stick. Removed HDD, installed SSD internal SATA.

Boot Legacy BIOS SSD
BSOD
The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contains errors.
File: \Boot BCD
Error code: Oxc000000f

Troubleshooting:
Aomei Partition Assistant > rebuild MBR
LazeSoft > oneclick fix > rebuilt MBR, rebuilt BCD, fixboot, etc.
Windows 10 > Startup Repair
Diskpart > bootrec /fixboot > bootrec /fixmbr > bootrec /rebuildBCD
Diskpart > lis dis > sel dis 0 > lis par > sel par system-NTFS-partition# > active

What caused this error, and how do I fix it?

AOMEI has a bug they deny.
I went through a similar issue like you.
The issue is MBR vs GPT.
Copying a boot drive MBR partition onto a new drive is silently without notification converted by AOMEI automatically to GPT even if the new drive is set as partitioned as MBR!
AOMEI denies this despite my offer to demonstrate the bug.

SOLUTION:
The only way to solve the problem was to use a competing product, Paragon Partition Manager 17 which very swiftly copied the entire (boot) partition onto the newer drive which upon re-installation would boot up right away in the respective equipment!

The boot critical files need to be on the active partition.

Bootmgr and a folder called boot that contains the bcd store. The bcd store entry needs to point at the windows partition.

Boot some kind of win10/11 based winpe , open cmd prompt and type:

if when booted into winpe the windows partition on the cloned disk shows as D: and the active partition on the cloned disk shows as D:

Replace D: below with whatever letters your winpe shows.

then the commands would be :

bootsect /nt60 D: /mbr
(then press enter)
bcdboot D:\windows /s D: /f ALL
(then press enter)

On the source disk that was cloned (HDD 500GB 2013):

1) Post images or share links of disk management:

How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management


2) Run:

a) https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...p_plus_log.bat

b) Batch files for use in BSOD debugging

Post share links into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive.



On the target disk (HDD 500GB 2013) post images of these commands with results:

Diskpart > bootrec /fixboot > bootrec /fixmbr > bootrec /rebuildBCD

Diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par

and include the commands that SIW2 posted.

FWIW I never ever clone system drives. It just ain't worth the hassle. Clean install every time in my book.

That error code could be a signature issue if it's not that AOMEI issue talked about. Read all about my dilemma and how I fixed it here.

Marie SWE said:

Sadly i have to say that the best clone program I have ever used is Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a great piece of software. I have successfully used it to clone my encrypted drives.

To those that don't know, Clonezilla can be used in a server environment and clone many computers all at once.


Yeah, I would try to boot Clonezilla with Ventoy. For me, I use UEFI booting with Ventoy. Even though my computer is MBR legacy, I have Ventoy loaded in a UEFI state.