Cloned disk unable to boot

Megahertz said:

Glad you found a solution and it is working.

Thanks

[QUOTE=antares;2610568]Just some facts to make it clear:
- The source disk is a Samsung 970 512MB Nvme installed in my Dell XPS 9570 laptop, it has Windows 10 installed and it works perfectly fine. sfc and dism tests show the file system has no corruption.
- The target disk is a Samsung 980 1TB Nvme,...

First let me entertain you with a seriously funny coincidence!
Other than the laptop, I have, bought and did exactly to a T the same!!
Oddly enough, I had also exactly the same problem ending with a unbootable clone once inserted into the motherboard.
Acronis was a failure and so AOMEI.

However, when I use Paragon disk/partition software to clone the drive it worked!
Thereafter I experimented and could verify that indeed the two aforementioned apps do have a cloning bug.
The only one that had done the job flawlessly was the paragon disk/partition manager.
I reported this to the relevant support departments including my verifiable and reproducible issue.

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antares said:

Just some facts to make it clear:
- The source disk is a Samsung 970 512MB Nvme installed in my Dell XPS 9570 laptop, it has Windows 10 installed and it works perfectly fine. sfc and dism tests show the file system has no corruption.
- The target disk is a Samsung 980 1TB Nvme,...

First let me entertain you with a seriously funny coincidence!
Other than the laptop, I have, bought and did exactly to a T the same!!
Oddly enough, I had also exactly the same problem ending with a unbootable clone once inserted into the motherboard.
Acronis was a failure and so AOMEI.

However, when I use Paragon disk/partition software to clone the drive it worked!
Thereafter I experimented and could verify that indeed the two aforementioned apps do have a cloning bug.
The only one that had done the job flawlessly was the paragon disk/partition manager.
I reported this to the relevant support departments including my verifiable and reproducible issue.

Sorry, I did not understand your post clearly, did you use the same Startech enclosure I described? If so, were you able to successfully clone with such enclosure+Paragon?

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3Bit said:

Sorry, I did not understand your post clearly, did you use the same Startech enclosure I described? If so, were you able to successfully clone with such enclosure+Paragon?

No, but the issue I encountered with cloning the identical Drive set was the software used.
For some reason Acronis and AOMEI somehow do not properly clone GPT partitions.
also make sure that before you clone the new drive is set to GPT.
In my case only paragon did it right.

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antares said:

No, but the issue I encountered with cloning the identical Drive set was the software used.
For some reason Acronis and AOMEI somehow do not properly clone GPT partitions.
also make sure that before you clone the new drive is set to GPT.
In my case only paragon did it right.

Can't speak for AOMEI, but Acronis is GPT compatible at least since TI2021, and I perfofmed clones successfully with it

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3Bit said:

Can't speak for AOMEI, but Acronis is GPT compatible at least since TI2021, and I perfofmed clones successfully with it

I can only post what I encountered, experienced and dealt with.

antares said:

Yes, StarTech is a more expensive brand but their products are top quality and when it comes to something sensitive as data transfer I always trust them. Throughout the years I bought from them cable adapters, enclosures, etc and they never failed. As per this enclosure M2E1BRU31C, it's not faulty, but as it is Windows can not see what drive is inside, it can only see that a Startech mass storage has been attached and this fact might interfere with a successful cloning. Maybe it can be fixed with a firmware update, I'll send Startech this feedback. To use it as external storage/data transfer it works fine. Yes, this enclosure is overpriced, among the most expensive Startech items, as most thunderbolt devices are.The laptop's USB port is fine, I've done multiple clones/backups/data transfers connecting various devices and no issues.
The good thing about these threads is that you learn cool stuff like cmd commands, boot manager, etc. I will keep Clonezilla in my software collection, and I particularly like Ventoy, by adding multiple ISO's to a single USB stick I will no longer travel with 10 pen drives, nice app,thanks ��

1) It has nothing to do with Windows. Clonezilla boots independent of Windows...

2) $80 some odd bucks for some basic electronics is BS.

3) Having said that, sometimes a dud rolls off the assembly line... Doesn't matter what brand or brand hard on one has...

F22 Simpilot said:

1) It has nothing to do with Windows. Clonezilla boots independent of Windows...

2) $80 some odd bucks for some basic electronics is BS.

3) Having said that, sometimes a dud rolls off the assembly line... Doesn't matter what brand or brand hard on one has...

Yes, I know Clonezilla does the cloning offline, and I always do it offline with Acronis too, safest method. I was just saying that even if offline, when I choose the source drive it is listed as "Startech mass storage etc", not as "Samsung 970 Pro...", so even if offline the drive inside the enclosure is not seen, just the enclosure's flash rom chipset, and this MIGHT be the reason of the unsuccessful clone.
As per the price of the enclosure I agree it's BS, even if it wouldn't have this issue.