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After a week-long battle, I'm back! I never got Windows to boot from the external drive, and the repair tool would always fail, saying it couldn't find the hard disk. I did eventually get it to boot from a VM by cloning to a vdi, and fighting it for a while! However, because of the 'hardware'...

My hope was to eventually switch to a lightweight linux distro on this old laptop, while keeping a bootable version of the old windows setup. Cloning the data is easy, but I have years of configs and tinkering that make it important to preserve the whole OS. Right now I'm trying to image the...

Ok, that also looks like a promising route. I'm looking into Hasleo's WinToUSB and WinToHDD, as well as AOMEI Backup, which supposedly can support this according to ubackup.com/clone/clone-windows-to-usb-drive-1021.html Edit: None of the three of those support disk cloning to an external drive...

I tried to respond, but it got stuck waiting for mod approval, so I'll try repeating it here: Cybernautilus, I can't seem to find partition UUIDs? I have found information about the type-id, but these are supposed to match and dictate the type of the partition, disk IDs that are different, and...

Cybernautilus, I can't seem to find partition UUIDs? I have found information about the type-id, but these are supposed to match and dictate the type of the partition (set id), disk IDs that are different, and BCD UUIDs that appear to be different, but I can't tell for sure (EasyBCD unhelpfully...

No problem, I'm new here too! UUID clash sounds very possible, since both the clone and the 'source' drive are plugged in, so I'll have to do some research into that. Unfortunately the laptop I'm on has a Lenovo UEFI with very few settings, so I don't think I can disable the internal drive short...

Hello! I'm trying to clone my 512GB SSD to my much larger 4TB USB hard drive, without disrupting the other partitions. I've tried cloning 3 different ways: GParted, Macrium reflect cloning, and Macrium Reflect image and then restored to the drive. In each case I cannot boot. Though the clone is...