Panic! My original drive is now NOT bootable
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I’ve done this operation:
Original device: SSD Kioxia Exceria Pro 1TB PCIe 4 NVMe
Target device: SSD Kingston FURY Renegade 4 TB PCIe 4 NVMe
I followed all the cloning process, with success messages, all seemed to be correct. I followed this tutorial, step by step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBxVUcci7I
After, my target device doesn’t boot. It’s recognised by the BIOS, and the Boot priority is correct. But it says:
“reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key”
Even worse, my original drive is ALSO unable to boot, same message. How is it possible? May Clonezilla damaged my drive? I’m shocking, I cannot lose all my data.
Please help!
Normally Clonezilla won't modify your source disk, unless you hit a bug.
In your case, make sure you do not choose the wrong source disk and destination one.
If they are correct, normally this is due to you do not remove one of them from the machine after cloning and just boot your machine. This might confuse the OS you have.
In this case, you can boot Clonezilla live and to mount the file system on your source disk/partition, and copy the data. Your data should be still there, just the booting mechanism has some issue.
Steven