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FreakFoLife

FreakFoLife

Apr 19, 2020
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I was recently trying to clone my OS to my new SSD, after I did it and turned of my pc I get put on the choose your keyboard layout screen. The SSD does nothing so I’ve taken it out. I’ve realized when looking into the cmd that a new drive X: is where my pc is booting up to now. Does anyone know how to change my pc too boot back to C: since all of the C: files are still there in the cmd?
 
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You've done something wrong with the clone operation.
Let's start over, multiple questions and steps will follow.

Desktop or laptop?
What drives are involved here?
What motherboard?
What OS?

Can you return the system back to original working condition?
 
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USAFRet said:
You've done something wrong with the clone operation.
Let's start over, multiple questions and steps will follow.

Desktop or laptop?
What drives are involved here?
What motherboard?
What OS?

Can you return the system back to original working condition?
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Im running on a desktop with windows 10 home. The only drive involved is my 1tb hdd. I have a msi B250M bazooka, this is my older system.
 
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For the clone there was my ssd. But when I tried to boot from the ssd it didn’t work at all. So I took the ssd out and tried working on the hdd. Also to answer your question earlier, when I try to system restore, it says “you must specify which windows installation to restore”. I’m guessing it says that because it’s on the x:?
 
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FreakFoLife said:
The ssd is a Kingston 120 gb m.2. I had uninstalled enough on my hdd to make it 100gb. I was trying to make my ssd run the OS and have the hdd as storage. But now neither work
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For a successful clone into a 120GB drive, the original data must be under 80GB.
And if you're all the way down to that level, you might as well just do a clean install.

Returning the system back to original config does not work?




But..(assuming the Kingston is a SATA drive, not NVMe)
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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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USAFRet said:
For a successful clone into a 120GB drive, the original data must be under 80GB.
And if you're all the way down to that level, you might as well just do a clean install.

Returning the system back to original config does not work?




But..(assuming the Kingston is a SATA drive, not NVMe)
-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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I am not able to access windows on either the ssd and hdd. I just get stuck on the safe mode screen with troubleshoot. Macrium is the software I used yesterday to clone but when it finished cloning nothing worked and it created the new X: drive that only puts me in safe mode.
 
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When you are seeing the X drive, it means you are in the Preinstallation, or Recovery mode. Included is the ability to use System Restore, which allows you to restore windows to a previous save or restore point. If this option was configured, there will be different restore points you can chose from. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials...-10-a.html?s=56a275f80a1bdd75cb428db9c9b4662b

As far as what went wrong, stating the obvious, your clone failed, not only that it corrupted the source drive. For some reason I have only seen this when both drives are internally connected. In the future, you may want to look into a M.2 exterior drive for cloning.
 
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USAFRet said:
For a successful clone into a 120GB drive, the original data must be under 80GB.
And if you're all the way down to that level, you might as well just do a clean install.

Returning the system back to original config does not work?




But..(assuming the Kingston is a SATA drive, not NVMe)
-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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Samsung utility is painless and easy to remove

The ssd is a Kingston 120 gb m.2 - so no cable involved.
 
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onespeedbiker said:
When you are seeing the X drive, it means you are in the Preinstallation, or Recovery mode. Included is the ability to use System Restore, which allows you to restore windows to a previous save or restore point. If this option was configured, there will be different restore points you can chose from. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials...-10-a.html?s=56a275f80a1bdd75cb428db9c9b4662b

As far as what went wrong, stating the obvious, your clone failed, not only that it corrupted the source drive. For some reason I have only seen this when both drives are internally connected. In the future, you may want to look into a M.2 exterior drive for cloning.
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So I attempted to system restore from a windows update. It said restore finished, and then I got this error. An unspecified error occurred during system restore 0x8007007e
 
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