Getting boot error after cloning

backupper_user · August 2023

Hello,
I am cloning a NVME drive which has ONLY Windows 11 installed on it. After successful cloning I am getting the error as per attachment. Can you please let me know how to resolve this?

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aiArtisan · August 2023

Hello, I understand you need some help. We need more information from you, could you please reply with the answers to:
1) What is the PC brand, year, model #, desktop or laptop?
2) Aomei product tier Standard, Pro, Other?

3) Please post a screenshot of your disk from Partition Assistant (PA)

That looks like a Grub2 boot manager, from a previous linux installation, did you previously install a Linux? If that is the case, you have a Grub2 boot manager folder in your EFI partition. You do not have to remove it, that is not required. Your UEFI is currently booting to the old Grub2. Please go to UEFI settings and change boot order to Windows. You could also use the UEFI temporary boot menu to boot to Windows, but it will not save that setting.

If changing the UEFI boot order does not solve this, use Windows 11 USB > Repair > Automatic Repair.

If that does not solve it, go to CMD >

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd
BCD <Letter>:/Windows

Please always check your current Windows volume letter with Diskpart > lis vol. Volume letters are fluid, they are not permanent.

If that does not solve it, there is something deeper going on, and you should use BackUpper (BU) WinPE USB to backup entire disk to external disk, then use LazeSoft Boot Repair.

Most Windows GPT disks have 4 partitions.

1) EFI - boots OS > Windows / Linux / Other

2) MSR - backup of BCD Boot data for Windows

3) Windows system

4) WinRE - Windows Recovery Environment

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Backupper WinPE USB:
Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary. Does not work with some monitors.

Partition Assistant WinPE USB:
Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary.

Aomei WinPE Builder 2.0 USB, includes: Partition Assistant, Backupper, Recuva, OSF Mount, CPU-Z, Bootice. Does not support any additional drivers, such as some internal NVMe disks.

LazeSoft - Windows boot repair

admin · August 2023

@Backupper_user, Please check the following items to check and fix the boot problem.

1. Please first check if the source and target drive are the same disk style (MBR or GPT).

You can press Win+R, then run “diskmgmt.msc” to open Windows Disk Management, then right click the source/target disk, click “Properties”-->”Volumes” to check Partition style.

If the target disk is different with the source one, please delete all partitions on the target disk and convert it to the same form via Windows Disk Management. After that, please run system or disk clone again.

2. Please check the connect way of the target disk when you boot from it. Generally, you need to connect it as an internal drive to boot. You can connect the target disk to the second internal slot, then boot into BIOS to set it to boot. Or, you can remove the source disk and connect target one to here, then boot.

Ps. You need to boot the cloned disk on the same computer. If you want to use the cloned disk on the second computer, please try to use system/disk backup, and universal restore to another computer.

3. Please try to clear the target disk and then clone again.

4. If they are GPT system disk, please boot into BIOS to check if there are multiple boot options. If yes, please try to select every boot option to check if it is able to boot.

5. Please try to use AOMEI Boot Repair tool to repair the cloned disk. Please still boot from the source disk, download AOMEI Boot Repair tool from the link, and then unzip it. Then, run “AOMEI Boot Repair.exe” (select the corresponding x64 or x86 version based on your system version) to fix the cloned system. Then, try to boot it again.

6. If it still can’t boot, please take a photo of the boot error to us. And, please allow us to offer remote assistance.

Getting boot error after cloning

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