If you are going to do it again in the future, use a suitable tool.

the easiest way is diskgenius (free version) OS Migration

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nt6repair only accepts letters not device paths. you could first give the esp a letter using diskpart commands

You could use bcdboot command

bcdboot windowspartitionletter:\windows /s esppartitionletter:

or

bcdboot windowspartitionletter:\windows /s espdevicepath

for example

you can split it onto 2 dvds. you then need to copy install.swm an install2.swm to the same directory e.g. a partition.
...

Depends what you mean by "clone"

In the mesozoic era it used to mean an exact copy disk to disk without the intermediate step of making an image. Now it just means copy.

Nowadays most programs...

the bcd entry references the partition and disk id. If you change the disk id then the bcd entry needs to be changed



That is expected if the ids are the same.



That is unusual. It is...

The article says


That is for sata . I havent seen any documentation for nvme relevant to this.

For people with DM keys they can be checked with nir sofers little portable firmwaretablesview

click on MSDM

FirmwareTablesView

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It has already been answered.

When using the gui, the image includes the partitions that have been automatically selected, plus any you choose to add using the tick boxes.

It is possible to...

It automatically selects the partitions required for the os you are currently booted into. You can add others.

boot some kind of winpe to load the system hive and make the changes.

If you dosnt have a custom winpe, then installation media would be ok. Boot it up go to command prompt, type regedit then load...

It shows disk 2 as mbr. Which disk did you select for installation?

Have the disc in the dvddrive

at post tap F8 should bring up the one time boot menu

dont think screenshot works in one time boot menu but the menu should show the dvd

Have a fat32 usb stick plugged in. Try F12 to deposit a bios screenshot on the usb stick.

It is not complicated

Cloning usually means directly from one disk/partition to another disk/partition

So if you clone C to a partition on a different disk, then clone D to that same partition,...

Looks like 3x nvme gen4 m.2 plus 4x sata3 ports

There is an option to use the slimsas for either an additional pcie gen4 or 4 additional sata ports.

Also a couple of pcie gen3 slots which...

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/asus-pro-ws-w680-ace/192319/3

If you look at the tech specs
Pro WS W680-ACE - Tech Specs｜Motherboards｜ASUS USA
read the manual before purchasing if you are not sure
Pro WS W680-ACE｜Motherboards｜ASUS USA
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You could check in your shadow copies ( if you have any)

you need something that can clone/copy into a file

that is often called disk/partition imaging

Confusing for people not familiar with this kind of thing.

For example, diskgenius offers to...

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I killed setup.exe before it could revert and had a look . Namespace folders had been moved to windows.old as expected. Installation files had been expanded onto the target partition as...

Setup.exe searches the root all partitions looking for a Sources folder containing the matching installation files.

If your installation files do not match (e.g. different os version)

or

If...

is it the same bit version ?

It is one partition at a time with capture to wim.

Depends what you are doing. If you just want to restore the os partition, the existing esp partition stays as it is and is fine.

If for...