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Booting a cloned disk
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...- GrateJames
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- boot issues boot manager bootable media cloning disk management efi partition file system gparted macrium reflect partition recovery screen ssd storage system restore tech support troubleshooting uefi usb volume selection
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows won't boot up from ssd unless hdd unplugged
Greetings! I have windows 11 pro running on a dell laptop i had an nvme storage upgrade few months ago so i cloned my windows onto there, which created two identical options for windows boot manager in the bios boot selection menu , yet windows will always load up from ssd.. everything was...- chetan843
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- boot boot manager cloning configuration dell disk partitioner dual boot efi partition fedora grub hdd linux problem solving recovery partition ssd storage upgrade troubleshooting uefi windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Uefi multiboot has boot manager on every drive
I have installed windows 10 on three different drives and windows 11 on one drive. To install windows on each I had to remove the other drives from the PC. However this has created a bootloader on each drive and my system is now totally confused. I select the drive on sata port one as the main...- IanHHH
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- bios boot issues boot manager bootloader computer setup configuration disk management drive selection easybcd efi multi-boot os installation partition recovery repair sata troubleshooting uefi windows 10 windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 11 Boot from Storage Spaces Virtual Disk
I have windows 11 i am trying to boot from storage space virtual disk which as 2 disks in storage pools trying achieve the same thing as surface pro 2017 [surface pro 5 ] as mentioned in this thread Link Removed faced the same issue as mentioned in the thread ,the boot manager couldn't find...- pavank830
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- boot issues boot manager disk issues storage storage pool surface pro virtual drive windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 boot manager not where it should be.
Hello please help I'm trying to run the mbr2gpt command and conversion so I can enable my secure storage option so I can move to win 11. When looking at the log for why the action failed to validate it tells me that BCD for boot volume cant be opened. Also my boot manager is somehow one disk 1...- MorganAnarhcy
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- bcd boot manager configuration conversion disk management diy build drive letter error hard drive intel i7 mbr2gpt motherboard novice os upgrade secure storage ssd storage troubleshooting windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager installed to other harddrive with windows on it.
I am trying to figure out what happened to my system to prevent it from happening again, and how to fix it. I had an old hard drive that I got from my family member after I upgraded their hard drive to an SSD for more speed. My plan was to slave it to my computer and format the hard drive, using...- malak2004
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- active partition bcd bios boot manager boot time command line disk formatting drive management hard drive hardware upgrade installation media m.2 os partition performance issues repair storage system issues tech support troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows not appearing in Boot Manager
Hello I am Rahul Due to this pandemic doing work from home for Akai metal so I have a dual boot system, both on the same drive. I have Pop OS! And Windows 10. The problem I have is that I unplugged the C: drive which contained Windows and Pop OS! And plugged it back in and now Windows is not...- akaimetal
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- boot manager c drive detection dual boot pandemic pop!_os windows 10 work from home
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager
I'm running Windows 10 Home with all updates on my Dell XPS 13 9380 I'm trying to upgrade my SSD to accommodate large astrophotography files, from 512GB to 1TB. I have tried both AOMEI Backupper and EaseUS to clone the NVMe drive, with the same result. I cannot get the new SSD to boot, and...- Chrispy
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- aomei backupper astrophotography bios settings boot drive boot manager cloning dell disk management easeus nvme ssd ssd upgrade storage upgrade process windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 How to install an UEFI-based ISO (bootable with DVD) on an USB flash?
I have an UEFI-based ISO file for a tool on windows (This tool is NOT a WinOS but a separate utility tool). If I burn this ISO onto a DVD and boot it on an UEFI computer (without Secure Boot) everything works. However If I put this ISO with e.g. Rufus onto an USB flash drive then the USB flash...- pstein
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- boot manager bootable computer conversion dvd extraction flash drive installation iso rufus secure boot tech support troubleshooting uefi usb utility ventoy windows tools
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Boot Manager Not Found after secondary drive replaced
I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on a new Samsung SSD drive several months ago. I have a second drive in my system which is my data drive. I've had no issues for several months. Yesterday I decided to replace my secondary drive with a bigger drive. When I powered up my computer I get a...- Pool player
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- bcdboot boot issues boot manager data drive disk management efi partition guid hard drive hidden partition installation issues partition recovery partition ssd startup system repair system restore troubleshooting windows 10 windows installation
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Moving windows boot manager to another HDD (MBR Legacy Boot)
Hi everyone, I have two HDDs one is 640GB & the other is 320GB(Both MBR using Legacy boot). The 640GB HDD has Windows 7(in D)& Windows 10(in C) installed but the boot manager is located in the 320GB HDD. I want to move the boot manager to the 640GB HDD. My Partitions look like this...- HaxJoker
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- boot manager configuration disk management easybcd hdd legacy boot mbr partition windows 10 windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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ISO images bootable only in Legacy BIOS OR (!) UEFI ? Decision at ISO creation time or at storage on USB flash drive?
As you known there are many sofwtare tools available which offer not only a setup.exe but an ISO to download. This ISO can either be burned on a CD/DVD or put onto an USB Flash drive. I am NOT talking about Win10 ISO images but other software like (examples): - Gparted GParted -- Live...- pstein
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- bios boot manager bootable usb clone compatibility file system flash drive gparted installation iso images legacy bios partition wizard rufus secure boot software storage tools uefi
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 10 New PC Build. New Windows 10. After first reboot
Asus x299 Deluxe II Corsair Ax1000 Be Quiet Dark Base Pro 900 Samsung M.2 870 2tb Corsair H100i Bios seems ok. Things appear proper in there (I think). It sits with out any unexpected rebooting at all. cpu 33deg. I put in the Windows 10 stick and rebooted the machine and start install...- revel
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- asus be quiet bios boot loop boot manager computer issues configuration corrupted files corsair error hardware installation nds driver pc build reinstall restart samsung support troubleshooting windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Issue Dual-Booting and Installing 2nd Windows 10
I have been running Windows 10 on a desktop I built using a 120GB SSD. PC running great but needed more space. Had an extra HDD (750GB) from a Toshiba laptop. Wiped, formatted, bought W10 key, and installed as secondary drive. To be clear I know have one PC tower with 2 drives that each have...- ThomasTew
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- boot manager dual boot hidden partition partition windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Cannot boot with 2nd HD plugged in. POST Windows 10 re-install
Hello, Summary of problem: After re-installing Windows 10 on my SSD, I have to have my 2nd HDD unplugged to get it to boot to windows. As a test step, I did configure the HDD SATA port for hot swap mode. This does allow me to boot the computer with only the SSD plugged in and once it boots, I...- zx96r
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- bios boot issues boot manager data integrity disk management hardware hdd hot swap legacy bios motherboard partition management power cycle reinstall seagate ssd storage configuration troubleshooting uefi windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 boots only from old SSD
I got a new PC with m2 nvme SSD and I also took my old SSD from the old PC. Now after installing WIndows on the new SSD it does not boot when I select the new SSD in boot menu, only when I select the old SSD (which is labeled as Windows Boot Manager in UEFI) and select one of the two Windows...- AlexP11223
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- boot issues boot manager installation new computer nvme ssd troubleshooting uefi windows 10
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Manually Rebuilding a Windows Boot Partition (MBR)
In this tutorial we will be manually creating the system boot partition. This is for a system that is BIOS booting (sometimes referred to as legacy or legacy CSM) which utilizes the MBR. The MBR is the first sector on the hard drive that contains a small first stage boot loader which hands the...- Neemobeer
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- active partition bcdboot bios boot boot manager command prompt diskpart drive letter formatting legacy mbr os installation partition primary partition repair system reserved troubleshooting tutorial usb installation windows
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- Forum: Windows Tutorials
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Windows 7 How to change BootManager entry for USB Flash Drive?
I have a couple of USB Flash Drives which contain different bootable systems. When I plugin the USB falsh drives into the USB ports of my mainboard, boot my computer and let BootManager show up then they all appears as "Sandisk Cruzer" So it is difficult to distinguish between them. Is...- pstein
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- bios boot manager bootable usb flash drive help mainboard rename usb usb windows boot windows tools
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Boot partition not the same as system partition
I have had an SSD failing on me so I opted to upgrade to win10 also if I was going to lose my OS (I couldn't clove the drive). I have made a win10 installation on a different HHD and apparently (I didn't understand it then) the boot manager was still in the old SSD for replacement drive...- maddim
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- bcdboot boot drive boot manager drive replacement installation ntldr partition ssd system partition windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Script Dual Boot Win X Linux cuidado
Olá! Net hum Já corri Muito sem Sucesso. Agora recorro AOS senhores para ver a possibilidade de Solução. Abaixo o meu Problema APOS execução dum Roteiro, Não Saiu Fazer meu Computador MESMO APOS formatar o nota Fazer zero: bcdedit / set {} bootmgr Caminho \ EFI \ ubuntu \ grubx64.efi Como Posso...- agnporto
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- bcdedit bios boot issues boot manager computer issues configuration dual boot error handling formatting grub installation linux scripting startup tech support troubleshooting ubuntu uefi windows
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Help and Support