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Hi there, Problem description: I’m trying to migrate my brother-in-law’s Windows 10 installation from his 12-year-old Dell spinning drive to a new NVMe one, and after copying the drive the Windows bootloader can’t boot the OS. My suspicion is that ages ago this drive was installed with a bootloader that can’t speak NVMe-whatever. Attempted fixes: I am copying the entire drive with clonezilla as a baseline. At that point I can select the Windows bootloader from UEFI, but it blue-errors saying that it can’t find an operating system. I have tried running a Windows repair from the Windows 10 installation media, to no avail. I verified that the EFI partition was copied correctly. I really don’t want to do a fresh Windows install because he has a lot of stuff configured and installed for which I don’t know we have reliable reinstallation sources. If I’m correct that this is a SATA/NVMe issue, what’s the best way to get an NVMe-capable Windows bootloader put in place? If I do a fresh Windows install with the same partition sizes, and then pave over the actual Windows partition, will I end up in trouble with mismatched drive GUIDs or such? Recent changes: Just this! -- Operating system: Win 10 Pro System specs: Motherboard is ASRock B450M HDV R4.0 AMD AM4 Socket, target drive is a 1TB SN850 Location: What country are you in? Canada I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes Googled a ton, but I didn’t see the FAQ tbqh!
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Feb 4, 2024 18:56
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If the old drive is MBR I tell people I need to reinstall but I try anyway. If the old drive is GPT it’s possible using Ghost or a good Windows Disk Management utility. Clonezilla is… clonezilla, it's a whole other thing. I have used it in the past but I absolutely do not know anything about it... there may be settings you missed maybe? Cloning GPT to GPT is a no brainer, if you need to, try again with different software. I think Macrium Reflect is popular. I use an old version of minitool partition wizard that has no ads (11.5) If the old drive is MBR lmk, there is a CONSISTENT way but it’s involved.
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Feb 4, 2024 23:02
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I am not certain that I converted the source drive to GPT, hmm! I don’t have access to the machine until a few weeks from now, but I’m hoping to have a bunch of approaches available when I go up next. I don’t mind involved! Thank you!
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Feb 4, 2024 23:16
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