I have a brand new Lenovo ThinkCentre M80 desktop. It came with a 500 GB M.2 NVMe drive and has never been booted as I want to capture the exact OEM configuration. I also want to upgrade to a 2 TB drive.
However, after I use Clonezilla to clone old SSD to new SSD, I get no HDMI video signal just after the Windows spinning icon. I've tried Beginner mode with all the defaults and Advanced with the -k1 switch (disk-to-disk in both cases) with no difference.
I can boot the Clonezilla ISO, Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 10 installer and Window 11 installer with no problems. If I install a fresh copy of Windows 10 to the new SSD, that also works fine. Just the cloned SSD fails to display anything.
One other note: If I power off the system three times to force Automatic Repair, I can navigate anything I want. I tried rebooting into Safe Mode but I get an error that you can't go through the out-of-box experience in safe mode. But the graphics work - from the cloned copy of Windows - in the Repair environment.
Any thoughts?
(I could just do a fresh Windows 11 install on this system. But I have another system, with the same hardware configuration, already in use by its end-user, and also want to clone that to a larger SSD. I'm afraid of the same problem there but can't do a fresh install on that system.)
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Maybe you need some driver for the new SSD? I am not really an expert of MS Windows...
If you need that, you might need to use sysprep (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/sysprep--system-preparation--overview?view=windows-11) before you clone it.
Steven
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2023-06-08
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I have a brand new Lenovo ThinkCentre M80 desktop. It came with a 500 GB M.2 NVMe drive and has never been booted as I want to capture the exact OEM configuration. I also want to upgrade to a 2 TB drive.
However, after I use Clonezilla to clone old SSD to new SSD, I get no HDMI video signal just after the Windows spinning icon. I've tried Beginner mode with all the defaults and Advanced with the -k1 switch (disk-to-disk in both cases) with no difference.
I can boot the Clonezilla ISO, Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 10 installer and Window 11 installer with no problems. If I install a fresh copy of Windows 10 to the new SSD, that also works fine. Just the cloned SSD fails to display anything.
One other note: If I power off the system three times to force Automatic Repair, I can navigate anything I want. I tried rebooting into Safe Mode but I get an error that you can't go through the out-of-box experience in safe mode. But the graphics work - from the cloned copy of Windows - in the Repair environment.
Any thoughts?
(I could just do a fresh Windows 11 install on this system. But I have another system, with the same hardware configuration, already in use by its end-user, and also want to clone that to a larger SSD. I'm afraid of the same problem there but can't do a fresh install on that system.)
Maybe you need some driver for the new SSD? I am not really an expert of MS Windows...
If you need that, you might need to use sysprep (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/sysprep--system-preparation--overview?view=windows-11) before you clone it.
Steven
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2023-06-08