Cloning windows from a ssd to another ssd isnt working

[brad_47]

Hello all! I was hoping to get this issue sorted asap as my old ssd needs to get return to amazon for a refund. Anyways to the problem. After cloning my ssd to the new one and I then uninstall the old one so it doesnt affect boot up. However when I select the new ssd all it does is show a black screen and then goes back to the bios. But there was a new option which was windows manager, I selected that and it comes up with windows repair how ever because I have OEM I haven't install any repair stuff. So I'm confused on how to fix this problem

Motherboard - H81-gamer.

 

[captaincharisma]

sound like a bad clone. how many times did you try to clone it?

 

[SkyNetRising]

So I'm confused on how to fix this problem

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management with both drives connected?

 

[brad_47]

I just found out that for some reason even tho my windows is install on my SSD. If I uninstall my hard drive my ssd with windows wont start. Also I tried it three times. I don't know If I'm cloning it wrong but I followed this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7D1HcfY9o : and here a picture of both drives https://imgur.com/a/3qjUa4a

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
Macrium Reflect screenshot doesn't have all the necessary info.

 

[brad_47]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
Macrium Reflect screenshot doesn't have all the necessary info.

Sorry my bad here it is
https://imgur.com/a/QrBN9us

 

[SkyNetRising]

Bootloader partition is located on HDD - 99MB EFI system partition.
This is how you fix it:
(steps 1-4 will require use of diskpart utility)

• 1. Shrink OS partition on your cloned SSD by 100MB.
  2. Create new EFI system partition in freed up space.
  3. Format it to fat32
  4. assign drive letter ( z: for example)
  
  This is how you do 1-4 in diskpart (execute from elevated command prompt):
  If you get any error, when executing diskpart commands, then stop immediately. Do not run format command then!
  diskpart
  list disk
  select disk x (x - number of your target SSD - should be 1)
  list partition
  select partition y (y - number of OS partition to shrink - should be 2)
  shrink desired=100
  create partition efi
  format fs=fat32
  assign letter=z
  exit
  
  5. create bootloader files on new partition with bcdboot command (execute from elevated command prompt).
  • bcdboot d:\windows /s z:
  ( D: - OS partition, Z: - bootloader partition)
  6. Shutdown your system, disconnect all drives, leave only SSD with OS, change BIOS boot options, if neessary, and verify, you can boot it normally.

 

[brad_47]

Bootloader partition is located on HDD - 99MB EFI system partition.
This is how you fix it:
(steps 1-4 will require use of diskpart utility)

• 1. Shrink OS partition on your cloned SSD by 100MB.
  2. Create new EFI system partition in freed up space.
  3. Format it to fat32
  4. assign drive letter ( z: for example)
  
  This is how you do 1-4 in diskpart (execute from elevated command prompt):
  If you get any error, when executing diskpart commands, then stop immediately. Do not run format command then!
  diskpart
  list disk
  select disk x (x - number of your target SSD - should be 1)
  list partition
  select partition y (y - number of OS partition to shrink - should be 2)
  shrink desired=100
  create partition efi
  format fs=fat32
  assign letter=z
  exit
  
  5. create bootloader files on new partition with bcdboot command
  • bcdboot d:\windows /s z:
  ( D: - OS partition, Z: - bootloader partition)
  6. Shutdown your system, disconnect all drives, leave only SSD with OS, change BIOS boot options, if neessary, and verify, you can boot it normally.

• 
  
  Thanks man I'll have to do this tomorrow to ensure that I don't mess anything up. Also before I do that should I re clone the ssd because I'd removed it earlier. Also I don't understand the last two steps. I would appreciate if you could explain it a bit more basic thanks.

 

[SkyNetRising]

It's as basic as it can be. What exactly got you confused?