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Cloned hdd but strange behaviour
OK so I cloned my hdd using EaseUS. I cloned Win 7 pro on a seagate 500gb hdd to a WD 2tb Hdd.
The clne went fine. So next I detached the 500gb and connected the 2tb hdd with the fresh clone. Everything booted OK and I can run my program's as normal. However there are some things not functioning. If you do a search, Windows will only search program folders from the start button. If you click on search elsewhere, nothing happens, no explorer page opens. Windows update doesn't work, if you open up indexing options there is no indexing folder. Usually it says something like programData/Microsoft/search. You can't rebuild the index, you can't turn indexing on. Not that I want it on, and also troubleshooter will not start reporting a fault saying restricted. So even though it's an exact clone, it's conflicted somehow.
Any help appreciated.