chrisj
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If your original SSD is still working OK and booting your computer, I would connect your new SSD to the computer using a SATA to USB cable and then use AOMEI "disk clone" command.
This will make an exact, bootable copy of your old SSD onto the … -
If you can become comfortable with accessing the HD or SSD that is in your laptop, removing it and replacing it with a new one, then there is an alternative to the Restore process.
Just buy a new HD or SDD that is identical to the one currently… -
Like Theucusa, I have cloned my entire SSD installation WIN10 onto a similar but not identical SSD. I have tested this by swapping the SSDs and confirm that the cloned one does indeed boot just fine.
This has always seemed to me to be a better … -
When you say you cloned "this" drive to another SSD drive, do you mean you cloned the external usb SSD drive? If so, since this drive has just your files and apps on it, it won't boot because there is no WIN11 operating system on it.
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Earlier free versions of BU did allow cloning of MBR system disks, but AOMEI have removed this ability from later versions - presumably to "encourage" people to buy the paid version which, as Aiartisan says, is quite good value
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If, as I suspect, you want only WIN11 on your new laptop then I think your best way is to save only your data folders from your old laptop to an external portable HD, connected via USB. Then re-install the applications you want one by one to the new…
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So, if you have both the boot partition and your data partition on the same drive then AOMEI will not now clone the disc whether it is MBR or GPT? Is that correct?
Seems like a good reason not to update to the latest version! -
I'm a bit puzzled - backing up your G folder to anywhere else doesn't destroy what's in the G folder, so why do you now need to restore it from the F folder?
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It's very unfortunate that you have lost irreplaceable files. Before carrying out ANY operation on a computer's HD or SSD it's always a prudent move to back up the files on it to another HD. This can be a cheap portable HD connected via USB. I know…
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I've sometimes found that when I copy and paste a password, I inadvertently include a space at the start or end of the password when I highlight it to copy it. Then when this is pasted into the password filed it is flagged as an incorrect password. …
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Or alternatively, with SSDs now so cheap, buy another one the same size as the SSD or HD already in your computer, and make a clone of your new installation onto it. Also, use a USB connected portable hard drive to back up your user files once per d…
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It does seem that use of AOMEI to clone from one disc to another results too often in an un-bootable cloned disc. I don't know why this is but I have now started using Macrium free software for this operation and, so far, it has always been success…
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Hmm....seems like Admin wants you to do some testing for them! If you've finally cloned successfully and the cloned disc boots OK, why would you want to delete everything and do it all again?
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Did you try cloning the entire disk and it wouldn't boot, or did you clone only selected partitions?
Also, examine the cloned disk - the WIN partition should be "C". AOMEI sometimes labels it with a different letter and I've found this will pre… -
Clone one disk/SSD to another definitely does not destroy the source disk content - it remains exactly as it was and an exact replica is made on the destination disk/SSD.
I don't have "Migrate OS to SSD" on my older version of AOMEI so I don't … -
Ahh.. I see.
If you do manage to boot your new computer from the old HD (it'll need to be connected direct to the motherboard to boot and not via a USB connection, and the new SSD will need to be temporarily disconnected), I think you'll have … -
If you're buying a new computer then it will come with an OEM Windows licence. Also, you don't want to move the old computer's HD to the new computer because, even if it will boot, it will almost certainly slow your nice new computer down.
I wo… -
I've now decided not to back up by making images and then, when a HD/SSD fails, having to boot the computer from a USB or DVD boot disk and labouriously restore the failed HD/SSD from the image. As has been seen in this forum, this type of restore d…
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So, if system migration is actually a clone, why are both Migration and Cloning separately offered? Is there any difference between them?
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If you don't have a backup image stored somewhere, and your computer has crashed completely then I'm afraid no recovery tool can restore your computer to how it was before it crashed.
It's possible of course that your blue screen on bootup is … -
What happens when you click the "Restore" button on the left of the screen? This should open a dialogue that lets you select your system image that I assume you made on a portable USB connected drive before your computer crashed.
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I also had trouble getting a drive cloned with AOMEI to boot.
If I recall I had to mess around using the command prompt to assign the correct "C" letter to the boot drive (AOMEI assigned a different letter to it).
I now use Macrium Reflec… -
No, my bluetooth mouse doesn't work either but I have a USB wired mouse that I can quickly connect for working in recovery environments
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Thank you once again - and now I'm feeling a bit foolish!
I didn't get the menu that you show on the LH side in your 2 screenshots but instead what appeared just to be a plain blue rectangle at the LH top of the screen with no title - see my … -
I also thought I could do that, but when booted to 1904FIXED.iso on a USB stick, I get the screen shown in 0940.jpg. Then when I click on Backupper I get 0941.jpg which is not the normal Backupper interface. Clicking on the menu on the RHS gets to 0…
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Postscript - I've realised that the Macrium restore environment does not give access to a Partion Manager or to a Command Prompt. The 1904FIXED.iso made boot USB does give this access so I may still need to use it before a restore, to clean the HD w…
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Thank you - I've now mounted the fixed iso onto a USB drive and successfully booted from it.
Backupper opens OK from this environment (although it looks a bit different from the normal Backupper environment). However, when I test click "restore… -
Rebooting after the reagentc commands didn't help.
However, I've now made USB boot drives using RUFUS and SIW2's 190.iso and 190A.iso files. These were indeed bootable and at last the Dell 3881's BIOS setup gave me the option of selecting USB b… -
Or do I need to reboot after completing the reagentc commands? I'll try that next (probably tomorrow)
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I've tried the reagentc commands from the Admin command prompt. Each command was successful but unfortunately it made no difference to AOMEI WinPE Builder which still required me to tick the "Download WinPE creating environment..." box before i coul…