I have cloned a drive that is in QPT format from a HDD to SSD. The device is an HP Pavilion x360 with Windows 10. I have checked the SSD in Disk Management on another device and the partition is active. I do not see anything out of place in BIOS.
It will not boot to Windows. When I turn it on it goes to a recovery screen Automatic Repair - "Your PC did not start correctly", if I reboot it will just loop to this message over and over. I am trying to preserve the programs/data on this drive because a lot of it is expensive, licensed software and also because this is bugging me and there should be a way to fix it.
I have tried the following:
The following is command prompt stuff I've tried within Recovery Mode off of a Win 10 install USB:
I'm currently attempting to use DISM to recover the drive with an install.wim file on a thumb stick, but it's quite the headache in a Windows PE environment.
It will not boot to Windows. When I turn it on it goes to a recovery screen Automatic Repair - "Your PC did not start correctly", if I reboot it will just loop to this message over and over. I am trying to preserve the programs/data on this drive because a lot of it is expensive, licensed software and also because this is bugging me and there should be a way to fix it.
I have tried the following:
- Startup repair from recovery mode just leads to "Startup Repair couldn't repari your PC"
- Trying to boot to Safe Mode presents the same initial problem of "PC did not start correctly"
- Trying any other option from Recovery Mode > Advanced Options > Startup Settings just ends up back at the "did not start correctly" message.
- Trying either Uninstall Updates option in Recovery Mode leads to failure.
- If I try System Recovery I get "Recovery" "Your PC/Device needs to be repaired" "A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed" "Error code: 0xc000000 e"
- There are no system restore points on the cloned drive to test.
The following is command prompt stuff I've tried within Recovery Mode off of a Win 10 install USB:
- CHKDSK <drive> /r - sees nothing wrong
- Using DISKPART to see that the drive is healthy, select it, assign it a letter, exit DISKPART, switch to the drive, bootrec /fixboot
- I've tried disabling auto recovery: bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled No - but this just leads to another Recovery screen of: The operating system couldn't be loaded because the system registry file is missing or contains errors, File: \WINDOWS\System32\config\system, Error code: 0xc00000225
- sfc /scannow - "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation"
- sfc /scannow /offbootdir=C:\ /offwindir=C:\windows - same error
I'm currently attempting to use DISM to recover the drive with an install.wim file on a thumb stick, but it's quite the headache in a Windows PE environment.