Problem with cloning on another laptop
Problem with cloning on another laptop
Hey everyone, here’s a simplified breakdown of what’s happening and some possible next steps. • Goal: replicate a 2.5 inch SSD from a Dell laptop to an M.2 SSD on a Lenovo device. What I’ve done so far: 1. Placed both drives on the Lenovo machine and used Clonezilla to make a clone. Cloning succeeded. 2. Removed the original 2.5 inch SSD, tried booting, but got an error saying the default device isn’t found. BIOS shows it’s there, yet Windows doesn’t recognize it. 3. Used Windows Recovery Media to attempt fixing boot issues, but bootrec.exe /fixboot reported “access denied.” I’ve checked for help, but most suggest you can see the disk if possible. I also noticed the Desktop folder was encrypted during cloning, which might be the root cause. I plan to re-clone after decrypting it, but that could take a few days. Would anyone confirm if this is typical? That way I can decide whether to keep searching or move forward. Thanks!
Next command is md \efi\microsoft\boot cd /d L:\efi\microsoft\boot when you are already in that location use bootrec /fixboot c:\windows /l en-us /s L: /f all and now your /fixboot should work
Hi, What kind of backup have you done? Full ? incremental ? , i use another backup program with these settings ( full backup with regedit ) and it works fine for me. about /fixboot here is tutorial that may help you run CMD on troubleshoot -> advanced options -> Command prompt type diskpart then list disk after that check your disk number (you should find your disk by size and freespace)( in my case i type 0 but in your's it may be another number so be careful) select disk 0 then type list volumes check to see where is your System Reserve and select that vol by this command (again in my case it's 2 but you should check yours) select vol 2 and after that you should assign latter on that vol by typing ( see if that letter that you want to assign is not in list already) assign letter=L: after completing all of these commands exit disk part by just simple EXIT command and locate in cmd to your volume that you just renamed in my case it was (L Next command is md \efi\microsoft\boot cd /d L:\efi\microsoft\boot when you are already in that location use bootrec /fixboot c:\windows /l en-us /s L: /f all and now your /fixboot should work
Kramble921
02-15-2016, 07:31 AM #3I completed a complete clone, but when using diskutil I can't choose the drive—it only shows the recovery media, not the SSD.