Bootrec /fixboot → "Element not found"

Using Macrium Reflect, I cloned my system SSD to a larger SSD, but the new SSD won't boot. (error 0xc000000e; this is obviously after powering down and disconnecting the old SSD.)

• This is on an old PC using BIOS booting and MBR disks.
• I created a Windows 10 installation DVD, tried its Startup Repair, no go.
• I then tried the following repair commands: (X: is the DVD drive; D: is the OS partition.)

What do you do when the standard boot-fixing online recipes won't work? What's my next step?

P.S. It's odd that the SSD's OS partition is being assigned the letter D. Should be C, no?

Blaq said:

Using Macrium Reflect, I cloned my system SSD to a larger SSD, but the new SSD won't boot ... What do you do when the standard boot-fixing online recipes won't work? What's my next step?

Boot from the Macrium restore usb. Select 'Fix Windows boot problems' from the menu on the left.

@Bree: Reflect didn't help.

@Kyhi: here's the diskpart info:
Attachment 249791
After selecting disk 1:
Attachment 249792Attachment 249793
Disk 1 partition 2 is my new, larger OS partition. At this point, I'm unsure of the bcdboot command: if I reassign the volume labelled "OS" from C: to S:, won't there be no more D:\Windows to access?

Reflect's "Fix Windows boot problems" didn't help.

I would love to try your method, but need confirmation of the actual bcdboot command. My new SSD is disk #1; the boot partition is partition #2 (452 GB), also shown as volume 2 (D:). Given that info, should I still run

Code:

bcdboot D:\Windows /s S: /f Bios

?

As posted above (images inline, this time):

List volume


List disk


Select disk 1
List partition

Hi Kyhi,

Thanks for your reply. I have questions about your proposed solution; first, let's have a look at my PC's existing partitions to ensure we're on the same page.

• In Windows Disk Management, Disk 2 (223.57 GB) is my existing SSD; Disk 3 (465.76 GB) is the new SSD. To avoid confusion with diskpart's different disk numbers, let's call them "old SSD" and "new SSD".
• Both SSDs are currently plugged in (my BIOS is currently set to boot from the old SSD), but when I took the previous diskpart screenshots, only the new SSD was plugged in.
• My old PC was originally a Windows 7 machine and, as mentioned, uses BIOS/MBR. (It's a DELL, which may explain the 39 MB partition which you expect to normally be 100 MB.) It's now running Windows 10.
• The screenshot is cropped to ignore WIFI SD (F:) and the DVD (R:).
• My old SSD's system partition was "Recovery", the 12 GB one.
• My old SSD's boot partition was "OS", the 210 GB one (enlarged to 452 GB on the new SSD).

Questions:

• The 39 MB partition is the DELL OEM System Restore partition and I'm uncomfortable overwriting it. Is it OK if I redo the disk clone and create a new, small partition specifically meant to be the system partition? What size should I make the new partition?
• You're changing the system partition away from the 12 GB partition. This is correct, yes?