Help, Cloned drive not booting!!

have you got two separate disks attached internally via sata on the same machine?

You can borow my boot media 17514x64v30.iso

extract the .iso to create bootable stick using Usb7ice.zip


then boot that usb stick on the sick machine and post screenshots of disk management window and if you like, the other partition managers that are in the boot media. So we can see both the disks

there is a little camera icon on the desktop of the booted media. You can save screenshots onto the usb stick and post them up here

Ideally, you need to pull it out to the right so we can see what it says in the status column.

Also you could check the partition style by rt clicking on the words Disk 0, select properties > volumes and it will tell you if it is mbr or gpt style.

It looks like mbr style from here.


Before doing the commands below :

Use nt6repair ( which is on the booted media desktop ) to Fix the OS letter by selecting the windows partition in the dropdown and click FIX.

If there is only one windows partition on the machine, then there will only be one to choose in the dropdown.
If pnp enumerates the same as in your previous screenshot it will be D:\windows which you will also use in the bcdboot command later.



then open cmd prompt and type:
diskpart
(then press enter)
sel dis 0
(then press enter)
sel par 1
(then press enter)
act
(then press enter)
ass letter=z
(then press enter)
exi
(then press enter)
bcdboot D:\windows /s Z: /f all
(then press enter)

there should be an active partition on mbr disk if you followed the instructions in my previous post.

There is no volume command in what I posted

then open cmd prompt and type:
diskpart
(then press enter)
sel dis 0
(then press enter)
sel par 1
(then press enter)
act
(then press enter)
ass letter=z
(then press enter)
exi
(then press enter)
bcdboot D:\windows /s Z: /f all
(then press enter)

It is showing as gpt.

similar but slightly different for gpt

diskpart
sel dis 0
sel par 1
ass letter=z
exi
bcdboot D:\windows /s Z: /f all

BUT it is curious the 100 mb is not showing as esp partition type and that it is ntfs rather than the more usual fat32 .

Something strange seems to have happened during the clone process. Possibly the source was mbr and for unknown reasons the cloning process create gpt on target.

Unless your machine has a very flexible bios, you would first need to make that 100mb an esp fat32 partition.

and then do the commands listed above.