Question about the SSD losing the Boot Manager during operation.
Question about the SSD losing the Boot Manager during operation.
The issue began when I transferred my old HDD boot drive to a new SSD using Diskgenius with OS migration. It functioned properly for a few days until a Windows 11 update likely caused it to fail. After the update, the Windows Boot Manager was removed from the SSD clone and it started booting from an older save file from Windows 10, possibly from another hard drive on my PC. I reconnected the old drive and re-cloned it onto the SSD again, which worked once before I restarted the PC and it returned to that older save in Windows 10. It might have been related to me, as I initially tried using Macrium Reflect but kept receiving Error 6. I attempted various fixes like the chkdsk command, but none resolved the problem. Now I’m unsure what to do next. I’m a beginner with this setup and would really appreciate your assistance.
I will get you that right now, but I want to add I think the reason for the reversion is that one of the hard drives I had inside the PC was from another PC I owned a long time ago and I never removed the boot files from it. That might also be the cause. I removed it and installed the old actual HDD with all my data, and it is now booting (very slowly because it's dying). Sorry for the wait.
Sorry, it wasn't allowing me to upload it for a reason. However, disk 1 refers to the one from an older PC, which seems to have some issues now even though it wasn't causing them before. Disk 3 is an NVMe drive.
Disk 3 is the Nvme drive.
In that image, it's not the OS location.
Disk 0 holds the current Windows installation.
Lots of activity there—you should start fresh.
Maybe even completely erase everything and reinstall the desired OS on any available physical drive.
Yes, you would need to erase the SSD and recreate it, then remove the existing data from the first drive.