Partition cloning of old to new laptop will not boot
Using AOMEI Backupper 6.1 I created a (partition) clone of the c: partition on my friends HP laptop (Win10) to an external USB disk (NTFS).
Subsequently, I ran the AOMEI Backuppers partition clone from the new HP laptops c: drive, which seemed to work. Naturally, the tool had to reboot itself to finalize overwriting it´s own c: partition with the clone partition. The data was moved sucesfully. But now my problems started.
The new c: drive wouldn´t boot.
I´m not really an experienced Windows-guy, so my knowledge og the BIOS, EFI, UEFI is really superficial, so I have studied a lot of videos and tutorials over the weekend trying to understand all this.
I have a suspicion that the problem has to do with the clone missing some boot info.
I managed to install new clean Windows 10 (not HPs) on the new c: drive (thereby overwriting the cloned data), and I got the machine to startup again.
To test my theory, I created an extra copy of my new fresh C: partition to a new F: partion on the external USB-drive.
I then tried to run this command as administrator in the terminal: bcdboot F:\windows
I succeseeded in getting the drive registered in UEFI, as far as I could tell when looking into the BIOS startup environment, but when choosing to boot from it it failed.
So I´m pretty much stuck. I only know that there is something that I don´t know enough about here.
Any ideas how I should proceed?
Subsequently, I ran the AOMEI Backuppers partition clone from the new HP laptops c: drive, which seemed to work. Naturally, the tool had to reboot itself to finalize overwriting it´s own c: partition with the clone partition. The data was moved sucesfully. But now my problems started.
The new c: drive wouldn´t boot.
I´m not really an experienced Windows-guy, so my knowledge og the BIOS, EFI, UEFI is really superficial, so I have studied a lot of videos and tutorials over the weekend trying to understand all this.
I have a suspicion that the problem has to do with the clone missing some boot info.
I managed to install new clean Windows 10 (not HPs) on the new c: drive (thereby overwriting the cloned data), and I got the machine to startup again.
To test my theory, I created an extra copy of my new fresh C: partition to a new F: partion on the external USB-drive.
I then tried to run this command as administrator in the terminal: bcdboot F:\windows
I succeseeded in getting the drive registered in UEFI, as far as I could tell when looking into the BIOS startup environment, but when choosing to boot from it it failed.
So I´m pretty much stuck. I only know that there is something that I don´t know enough about here.
Any ideas how I should proceed?
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I have cloned the full C-drive on which the all the system files resided (to the best of my knowledge).
I am aware of another tool than "Partition Clone" that will make a system backup, but I am interested in getting the exact partition moved so that it will continue to work as before (including being able to boot). Are you suggesting that I should be able to clone the c partition with some other tool instead?
Coming from a Mac/Linux-world I'm used to being able to boot from almost any external drive, but this BIOS issue can be a hurdle.
I did actually have a suspicion about the different drivers and BIOS settings when I set off. And that was the reason why I only wanted to copy/clone the c-drive to begin with. This was in order to not screw up the existing EFI and recovery data on the receiving HP laptop. I intuitively thought that putting a old configuration including EFI and recovery partitions from a 3-4 year older HP laptop HDD onto a new HP laptop with SSD might not turn out well. But I guess that's what I better have to do now by making a clone or backup of the whole disk.
I'll be back. Hopefully with good news. :-) Thanks again.
After that, you can try to boot the new laptop from the WinPE USB created by AOMEI PE Builder, and connect the external drive to the new laptop, then universal restore the system backup image to the disk of new laptop.
In addition, before restore, we suggest that you can run Partition Assistant under WinPE to delete the original system partitions of new laptop.
You can download AOMEI PE Builder from here:
http://www2.aomeisoftware.com/download/pe/2.0/full/PEBuilder.exe
It will integrate AOMEI Backupper and Partition Assistant you installed.