How to make cloned drive bootable

squid13 said:

I'll have to remove the SSD to do that, it's one of those M2 2280 small drives and in this computer it's a tight place to get into to remove the drive.

You shouldnt need to remove anything.

Use the one time boot menu and select the cloned disk

Usual way is to tap F12 at post. Some machines might have a different key, but f12 seems common.

squid13 said:

I'll have to remove the SSD to do that, it's one of those M2 2280 small drives on the motherboard and in this computer it's a tight place to get into to remove the drive.

You may also have the option in your BIOS to disable a drive without physically touching it.

Thank you for your replies, it's late so I'll give that a try in the morning.

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F9 was my one time boot key and yes Windows G did boot up and I used it for awhile. I didn't realize how slow the old drive was compared to the M2 SSD. How do I get it to appear on my selection screen along with Windows and Macrium Reflect.

Bcdboot is the usual way.

Alternatively bcdedit can be used to add a boot menu entry. It is command line.

Or you can use Bootice which has a gui to add a boot menu entry. I am lazy so I use bootice a lot.

If you was to use the command prompt what would be the entry to do it?

Copy the existing os entry, point the copied entry at the other windows partition and give it a description.

Sorry but you have lost me.

will show you in a min.

With a cmd file:

Code:

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-7" %%a in ('bcdedit /copy {default} /d "Win10 old disk"') do set RTN=%%g
SET GUID=%rtn:~0,-1%
echo GUID: %GUID%
pause
Bcdedit /set %GUID% device partition=g:
Bcdedit /set %GUID% osdevice partition=g:
pause

With bootice:







Duplicate the current os entry



There is the copied entry