Keep two disk and boot from them being one cloned from the other

Sep 4, 2018
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I have a 1tb HD drive with two partition, the first one with Windows 10. I used Clonezilla to make a clone of the Windows partition into a SSD drive. Now I can boot from the SSD but can't reach the HD because of the disk signature collision.
If I make it online using the disk management it will assign a new signature but the HD will not boot anymore. I tryed to generalize disk using sysprep but it didn't work and signature collision is still there.
How can I change disk signature but keep Windows booting frow either drive as I select them in the bios and also keep accessing the other drive to open files saved on them.
 
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Managed to solve it.

Just to clarify my initial post
I made a clone drive. This caused the signature collision. I was able to boot from either my SSD or my HDD but when doing so, the other one remained Offline.
I also knew if a made one of them Online using disk management it would solve the signature collision but would also made the drive unbootable because of the boot file not matching new signature anymore.

I went into another forum (Windows Ten Forums) and found this:

https://www.tenforums.com/backup-restore/80900-cloned-drive-will-not-boot-2.html

There, in the post #13 member SIW2 offered a zip file to solve issue. I downloaded it and unzipped it.
A word of caution here. It unzipped two files. A x64 and a x86. Norton...
Managed to solve it.

Just to clarify my initial post
I made a clone drive. This caused the signature collision. I was able to boot from either my SSD or my HDD but when doing so, the other one remained Offline.
I also knew if a made one of them Online using disk management it would solve the signature collision but would also made the drive unbootable because of the boot file not matching new signature anymore.

I went into another forum (Windows Ten Forums) and found this:

https://www.tenforums.com/backup-restore/80900-cloned-drive-will-not-boot-2.html

There, in the post #13 member SIW2 offered a zip file to solve issue. I downloaded it and unzipped it.
A word of caution here. It unzipped two files. A x64 and a x86. Norton detected and removed the x86 saying it is not safe.
I executed the x64 and tryed to follow the instrutction on post #27 but could not find the drive letter for my HDD.
It didn't work because I hadn't made my 1Tb HDD online after cloning it. I then did it and used that executable file again. It opened cmd window and executed a few commands that worked on the boot file.
I rebooted computer but could not yet boot from HDD. Did it again with the executable file and once again it did not boot.

I was about to quit and re-install Windows into the HDD with the new signature generated by the Online action. When I started the computer using the USB stick to install Windows, I don't know why, it first ran a disk check and prompted the correction was made.
I was curious about that and decided to quit Windows installation and tryed to boot once more from the HDD. This time it worked.
Now I can boot from either of my SSD or HDD. No more signature collision too.

hope this helps others with same issue after cloning disk.
 
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