Solved Macrium Reflect to clone drives

[askic]

Hello guys,

I have watched this youtube video tutorial about cloning/migrating to a SSD drive. The tutorial is pretty straightforward, and at 12:30 it is demonstrated that system booted from the new SSD drive. However, it is said that the last step is very important and that is to use rescue disk to repair windows boot.
I don't understand this, why this repair is needed when laptop was already able to boot to OS from newly installed SSD?
Can you pleas explain this?

I don't have much experience with this software, and would like to understand everything before I use it.

Thank you.

 

[SIW2]

why not use the software provided by the ssd manufacturer. Samsung does an excellent one.

 

[Bree]

... The tutorial is pretty straightforward, and at 12:30 it is demonstrated that system booted from the new SSD drive. However, it is said that the last step is very important and that is to use rescue disk to repair windows boot.
I don't understand this, why this repair is needed when laptop was already able to boot to OS from newly installed SSD?

Note that in the video both the original HDD and the cloned SSD were present at the first boot, then while in Windows the original HDD was wiped clean.

Repairing the windows boot may (or may not) have been strictly necessary. But running the repair guarantees that a clean new BCD boot entry is stored on the new SSD. Windows 10 has a habit of using any/all available drives and it was possible that the BCD entry it used for the first boot had been read from the (subsequently wiped clean) original HDD.

I would describe running 'fix windows boot problems' from the recovery disk as a 'necessary precaution' rather than an essential step. But as it does no harm to run it, why not take that precaution?

 

[askic]

why not use the software provided by the ssd manufacturer. Samsung does an excellent one.

Enclosed with the SSD drive there was no software or any hint I can downloaded it (Kingston SSD drive)

 

[TechnoMage2016]

Hello guys, I have watched this youtube video tutorial about cloning/migrating to a SSD drive. The tutorial is pretty straightforward, and at 12:30 it is demonstrated that system booted from the new SSD drive. However, it is said that the last step is very important and that is to use rescue disk to repair windows boot. I don't understand this, why this repair is needed when laptop was already able to boot to OS from newly installed SSD?
Can you pleas explain this? I don't have much experience with this software, and would like to understand everything before I use it. Thank you.

I'd like to help you, per your original question, but I tried Macrium Reflect once, some years ago, and it failed me.
So I went back to what I know works. Therefore, I'm not an expert on M.R.
Since 1997 I've been using One Program for all my Backup/Cloning/Restoring jobs.....Ghost 11.5.
It runs from any bootable media, even an SD card or 3.5" Floppy Disk. My favorite is a Flash Drive.
I can easily back up just the C: partition, or the entire HD. Or just Clone the HD to another HD.

Whatever you use, use it wisely and use it often.

TM