Hello dear experts,
I am in need of a help.
I thought I can simply increase the speed of the laptop by using an SSD and to save time and to avoid problems with the user (not me), I could simply clone the HDD...so...
I just cloned an entire Win8.1 system on an HDD (500GB) into an SSD (250GB) using AOMEI.
Everything or all partitions was cloned successfully but I can not boot from the SSD and got error 0xc0000225 instead.
I have totally no idea what to do next.
The partitions on the SSD are:
system 299MB FAT32, recovery 900MB NTFS, 128MB RAW, 100GB OS (Win), unknown 350MB NTFS, Data 110GB NTFS, Restore 21.25GB NTFS
Note:
- I plan to keep the original HDD for future emergency usages.
- The laptop is still always bootable using the original SSD.
- The laptop does not come with any Win serial numbers or Win DVD only pre-installed but I do have a Win8.1 installation DVD from another system.
I know that doing a clean install would probably fix everything but this laptop is being used daily by my uncle and he is really old.
The 5400rpm HDD is really slow and I do not really want to let him using such slow system, at least I thought so.
If I just simply delete or change any of his settings, he will get highly confused.
I was thinking if I could simply clone the SSD without letting him to notice it, beside the speed boost of course.
I searched the net already but I got really a lot headache...means I could not understand...yet..yes.. I am not that smart
I have never really worked with pre-installed Windows along with UEFI.
Can anyone help? Thank you very much in advance, I really appreciate your help.
I am in need of a help.
I thought I can simply increase the speed of the laptop by using an SSD and to save time and to avoid problems with the user (not me), I could simply clone the HDD...so...
I just cloned an entire Win8.1 system on an HDD (500GB) into an SSD (250GB) using AOMEI.
Everything or all partitions was cloned successfully but I can not boot from the SSD and got error 0xc0000225 instead.
I have totally no idea what to do next.
The partitions on the SSD are:
system 299MB FAT32, recovery 900MB NTFS, 128MB RAW, 100GB OS (Win), unknown 350MB NTFS, Data 110GB NTFS, Restore 21.25GB NTFS
Note:
- I plan to keep the original HDD for future emergency usages.
- The laptop is still always bootable using the original SSD.
- The laptop does not come with any Win serial numbers or Win DVD only pre-installed but I do have a Win8.1 installation DVD from another system.
I know that doing a clean install would probably fix everything but this laptop is being used daily by my uncle and he is really old.
The 5400rpm HDD is really slow and I do not really want to let him using such slow system, at least I thought so.
If I just simply delete or change any of his settings, he will get highly confused.
I was thinking if I could simply clone the SSD without letting him to notice it, beside the speed boost of course.
I searched the net already but I got really a lot headache...means I could not understand...yet..yes.. I am not that smart
I have never really worked with pre-installed Windows along with UEFI.
Can anyone help? Thank you very much in advance, I really appreciate your help.