Both source and target Windows 11 drives do not boot
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Cloning Windows drive to a larger ssd returned message:
Failed to clone /dev/nvme3n1p4 to /dev/sde4.
Now both original disk and the clone cannot boot, windows recovery does not do anything. Bios boot settings are ok. Attaching disks with an usb adapter shows what I would expect. Diskpart shows 4 partitions, smaller 3 of them have hidden status. Any chances to recover the original disk. Thank you
Sorry to hear that.
Clonezilla should not have touch your source disk, unless it has some bugs.
However, here we do not encounter similar issues.
Anyhow, after the cloning failed, did you remove one of the disks from the machine? If no, and you boot it, your OS might be confused. Since there two identical file systems in a same machine.
I suggest now you should remove the destination disk, and boot MS Windows installation media to fix the booting issue.
Steven
I am not sure that it was not started with both disks attached. Of coarse I tried to boot with only old or new disk. Checking them on another PC did not show any anomalies besides hidden partition compared to my other running windows systems. Both disks upon start try windows auto repair but failed. Windows repair fails also with boot-able windows usb. I tried to unhide partition but the methods I can find do not work with GPT partitions. Any other ideas?
Thanks.
What was the error messages when it failed to boot? You can follow that to do some manual fix. For example, if it shows "0x0000225", check this:
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/0xc0000225-error-code-on-windows-10-fixed/
Steven
thank you for response. It goes straight to "Preparing auto recovery" followed by Recovery failed. From there I can only go to command prompt, every other option failed with no error code. It's a GPT disk, the link seems about. I ran bcdboot c:\windows /s "EFI volume letter" /f UEFI and now it gives during boot 0x07 error: kernel is missing or contains error, File \windows\system32\ntoskrnl.
Hi, First thanks for fine product. I have similar situation with windows 10 so I thought I would look here first. I am probably doing something wrong.
Version live-3.1.2-9-amd64.iso. Same scenario on two compters, two attempts. One computer is windows 21h2, other is 1909. I believe uefi and gpt both.
Clone to larger drive, beginner, partition table copy. Both source and target require recovery to boot. Both do this automatically after showing windows screen announcing this, so I am guessing using recovery partition. (three partitions, boot, primary, and recovery).
Next, clone to larger drive, beginner, partition table proportional. Source requires recovery to boot and finds recovery without my intervention. Target says I need to provide recovery disk.
Version live-3.1.2.22-amd64.zip. Same scenario, but only ran on one computer (1909), two attempts as above.
Clone to larger drive, beginner, partition table copy. Both source and target will boot. I don't see any windows warnings so guessing all is fine.
Next, clone to larger drive, beginner, partition table proportionate. Source boots, target says needs recovery disk. Question, is windows looking for and can't find recovery partition?
After cloning I disconnected power to the non-test drive to isolate boot to the test drive. Changing drive to test other for boot integrity, only had the currently tested drive connected.
I did the old insanity test, I repeated the tests several times.
So I can clone to larger drive, but need to use tools to move recovery partition and resize primary partition to make full use of the drive. Since this is how I like to backup, not a real hassle, don't need to actually resize until the clone is needed. Still, is there something that I am doing wrong?
Many thanks again.
I think you are doing wrong several things: 1. Claiming similar situation and attaching unrelated story. That will diminish both our chances to get answers. 2. Story is too long. 3. No specific question is asked. Formally my replay answers your question.