Question How to Fix Broken Windows Dual Boot After Cloning Drive?

edo101

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Hi all, I got a 4TB SSD and wanted to migrate my 1TB OS SSD to it. I used Macrium reflect and cloned the partitions. I have two different Windows 10 partitions. One is for legacy 3D Vision games and the other is for my day to day. With the increased space, I opted to increase the size of both C drives during the cloning process so it wasn't 1:1

Now I can boot into my main Windows partition but when I go into the second one, it takes me to a black screen with my mouse cursor and the circular processing figure next to the cursor.

On my boot menu when I power up the PC, it does show both OSs but the second one just boots into the black screen.
What could be casuing this and how can I fix my broken second partition?
 
Disconnect the second drive and boot from the main drive and try both partitions.
I think the main issue is that I didn't clone my partitions identically. I was following some random advise I saw where you clone one partition at a time and then check back. I suppose the bootloader got confused by that since the volumes didn't align properly? I redid the cloning and cloned all 4 paritions on my SSD at once and no issues. Even with bigger resizing