thanks Rick, but I already read this post, and applied the bcdboot command with no more success…
and yesterday, trying to make it work, I made the first original disk not bootable !!!
and for more bad luck, I did not succeed to make a sata ssd bootable again with the backups…
so today I have to make a new fresh window boot on the nvme disk, and reinstall everything …
a few hours of pleasure …
thanks for your participation.
IIRC, you can’t clone Windows any more when it is on a SSD without then running sysprep afterwards. The sysprep routines include the necessary optimisations to make Windows bootable, especially given that you are going from SATA to SSD. It certainly is not supported by Microsoft to do it any other way.
I perfectly cloned a 256GB NVMe to an 1TB NVMe using Macrium Reflect, moved system partitions to the end of the media, and increased the C: partition to the max allowed (Minitool) using the free space I got. Booted, waited a bit, and Voilà! It worked! No sysprep or whatever. Windows 11 updated in my case.
could it be the NVMe > NVMe part that allowed it to work? It’s been a while since I’ve done any of this though
Yes. But also having an updated system able to detected a change and adapt. Who knows?
it took me 3 hours this morning to reinstall everything, so really less than all the time I tried to fix it !
and also a good cleanup of all oldies in the drive…
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