I would reboot the machine back into pe.

then look at diskpart select whatever partition it is and run det par

dont worry about the the letters they are assigned by winpe into the registry on...

did you have a partition in focus ?

which means the same as:

did you select a partition first

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It is a bit confusing.

The partition type guid is not the same as the partition guid

cre par efi
or
cre par efi size=100

wiil normally suffice.

the expected esp type guid C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

type guid for other basic partitions...

You could shrink the 550mb by 100mb and recreate the esp in that 100mb unallocated space

I would delete the 550mb and create an esp partition there. Then populate it using bcdboot command

You can fiddle around making a bigger recovery partition at the end of the disk after you have...

to boot windows in efi mode from a gpt disk most bios need an esp partition formatted fat32 . The esp partition is usually small about 100mb.

It is a bit of mess.

One way is to shrink a...

Now I have seen your picture. you are mistaken.

Mbr disk wants an active partition. Your 238gb disk is gpt

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for mbr disk ( assuming you are sure it is E you want )

diskpart
lis dis
sel dis (number)
sel par ( number)



or

I got a few things from cex. Cheap, guaranteed and easy to return


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http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01957825.pdf

crucial dont seem to have any ddr3 240 pin.

I would just get some ddr3 1333mhz 240 pin somewhere like cex. very cheap nowadays.

4gb stick 75p CeX

It could be because crucial no longer sell suitable ram for your machine.

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

Megahertz
...

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...