Max Locke

I re-entered the licence keys and re-activated and everything was imediately fine. I'm now fully up and running with the larger SDD for my C: drive. Thanks for Rescuezilla and all your help!

Thanks for your response. I will try again and report back.

I tried reformatting the larger SSD using a different utility in Windows, rebooting to Rescuezilla from a flash drive, and then writing the Rescuezilla C: drive image I had made earlier to the larger SSD. With the old, smaller C: drive SSD removed, I was able to get the new larger SSD to boot as the new C: drive. I then used the utility in Windows to move the third partition to the end of the free space on the SSD and then expand the size of the second (main) partition to include all of the remaining...

Hi again, I tried reformatting the larger SSD using a different utility in Windows, rebooting to Rescuezilla from a flash drive, and then writing the Rescuezilla C: drive image I had made earlier to the larger SSD. With the old, smaller C: drive SSD removed, I was able to get the new larger SSD to boot as the new C: drive. I then used the utility in Windows to move the third partition to the end of the free space on the SSD and then expand the size of the second (main) partition to include all of...

Thanks again for your help. The log file is attached. Cheers, Max On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM Rescuezilla rescuezilla@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I removed the larger, target SSD from the PC and then tried the restore again to the smaller original SSD On the second try at rebooting it went straight to my regular windows login screen and is working fine now! Great to hear! Honestly it will probably work perfectly if it's booted once. Likely there was a conflict between the two drives (eg, your...

Thanks again. I'm going to do a Windows restore point next and then another disk copy type of back-up. I will try a few normal reboots after that. Something I want to try on the weekend to shutdown, remove the same SDD C: drive, add the larger SDD, boot with Rescuezilla, and then restore the saved drive image to the larger SSD. Hopefully, the larger SSD will become my new C: drive but if that doesn't work then I will remove the larger SSD and go back to the smaller one. I e-mailed the clonezilla-img...

I ran GParted and tried >Partition>Check and all tests passed for the source/smaller SSD.

I ran GParted and tried >Partition>Information and got the following for the target/larger SSD: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Input/output error NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE! The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was made to NTFS by this software. Failed to open '/dev/sdc1'. $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Input/output error NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk...