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Windows 10 goes in to recovery mode after disk clone restore

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Sidney
2021-10-07
2021-10-13
  • Sidney

    Sidney - 2021-10-07

    Hello,

    I received a new computer with window 10 media on a partition.
    I deceived to first backup the new computer before setting up windows for the first time on the new pc.

    I booted using the current Clonezilla live on a USB and used an external USB drive to store the image onto it.
    I did not receive any errors during this process of creating a clone of the disk.

    I rebooted the new computer and proceeded to set up the windows that were already installed by the vendor.
    No issue with this step.

    I decided to create another clone of the disk. This image has the clean install of windows.
    No issue with booting up the computer into Clonezilla and performing a full disk clone and saving it to the external USB drive.

    I wiped the drive with gpart and set up ubuntu to test. Once I was done with testing the Linux I wiped the drive with gpart.

    When I try to do the disk restore this is where I ran into an issue.
    I first did the disk restore of the image of the clean windows install.

    I get the error when Windows 10 tries to load it is trying to recover.
    Same issue with the other clone image.

    The desktop has a recovery partition where it keeps the windows media that came from the vendor.
    I tried all the different options to repair or recovery of windows but had no success. It can not find the media even if I brown to the recovery partition.

    I was able to go into the command prompt and run diskpart and look at the partitions. I think the partitions are mixed up but I am not 100% sure
    volume 0 F: was the cdrom
    volume 1 C: was the system partition
    volume 2 D: was the windows partition
    volume 3 E: was the recovery partition marked as hidden.

    Did anyone run into this issue of restore windows 10 before?

    Thanks for the help

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2021-10-08

    "I get the error when Windows 10 tries to load it is trying to recover." -> Did MS Windows give any error code? Something like:
    https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/0xc0000225-error-code-on-windows-10-fixed/

    Steven

     
    • Sidney

      Sidney - 2021-10-08

      Hi Steve,

      Thanks for the reply.
      It is similar to that article but I was not getting that error code 0xc0000225.
      I would get the "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your computer" message after trying a full erase or keep personal files options.

      The article seems like a good place to start to have a go at it to manually repair.

       
    • Sidney

      Sidney - 2021-10-08

      Hi Steve,

      Thanks for the reply.
      It is similar to that article but I was not getting that error code 0xc0000225.
      I would get the "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your computer" message after trying a full erase or keep personal files options.

      The article seems like a good place to start to have a go at it to manually repair.

       
    • Sidney

      Sidney - 2021-10-09

      I went through that document. No success getting windows to recover.

      I sure could use some help getting this desktop backup and running with out having to doing a clean install.

      I need to recover the OEM windows key. Is there anyway to pull that off the image?

       
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2021-10-13

    Maybe it's because the EFI boot files are broken. You can clean them and rebuild it. Check this doc:
    http://woshub.com/how-to-repair-uefi-bootloader-in-windows-8/
    Though it's for Win 8, but it should work for Win 10.

    Steven

     

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