Question My EFI & Recovery is on a different drive from windows install and i cant boot from new drive

[PureCarbine]

Hi,

I've got a new drive, I can either clone the drive that contains the efi system boot and recovery or i can clone the drive with the operating system, at the moment i have the windows installation cloned. When i remove the old drive that had windows and boot from the efi on the other drive the new drive will not boot into windows and goes into recovery.

I have tried generating new EFI and Recovery files using guides online, which seems to have been successful, however when i remove the old drive the same issue occurs with a BSOD. Also by checking bcdedit /enum active i get this result from CMD for the efi location. Volume 4 is my normal volume partition and NOT the required efi partition so i dont even know how im booted into windows at the moment.

partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume4

I am not sure what else i can do and really cannot do a fresh install.

All I need is to boot from the new drive with the old drive Windows install. I don't know why it's so complicated.

I am probably missing some parts so if you have any questions that would help clarify i will do so quickly.

 

[PureCarbine]

At the moment I am attempting to add a bootloader to the original old drive and attempting to clone it again to see if that resolves any issues.

 

[USAFRet]

There are specific steps to add that bootloader.
Do it wrong, and things may get worse.

Please give us a screencap of your working Disk Management window.

Why the clone operation?
From what drive to what drive?