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Trouble cloning Win 11 SSD
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Make sure the EFI partition has the "boot, esp" label and the Windows partition has the "msftdata" label. That'll help the windows boot fixer find stuff. Also bootrec /rebuildbcd
Thanks for the reply. The bootrec commands I all tried to no avail (all say no windows installation found.) Surely, my latest attempt has the correct boot partitions after I let the Windows installer handle it all and overwrote only partition 3 afterwards? I'll check again anyway, thanks.
I see 4 partitions in GParted after attempt 4 as described in my post:
So, seems correct?
That sort of looks right, did the old SSD have the same configuration? According to that partition list you also have an extra partition, maybe a Lenovo recovery/repair partition or something bitlocker related. Your old SSD probably has p1 or p2 a bootable.
Overall you don't need to do it this way but what I'd do roughly speaking..
PS - Probably not what you want but worst case you can do a clean install of Windows 11 & then manually copy over your data (back up first!). Maybe not ideal but at least you'll have a fresh install to work with.
When you say
you mean which partition has the "boot" flag, correct?
Hey, thanks for taking the time. I really appreciate it!
Clonezilla indeed takes care of all the partitioning and the flags. I cloned the old SSD to the new SSD once more and it of course still won't boot. (Never mind that partition 3 of old SSD says bitlocker- I reenabled it after taking the disk image.)
This is really frustrating. It's not even about the data since everything is synced to my server anyway, but installing all the software again and tweaking everything so it feels like "my" system is just a lot of effort I would have liked to avoid. Starting to come to terms with the fact that it isn't happening. I probably won't do it, but I have half a mind to ditch Windows again. If only MS Office didn't make such a convincing argument in my day-to-day...
That's annoying.. even doing a Startup Repair with the Windows 11 USB doesn't repair it and get it starting up? Thinking on a normal install all this should have already worked, makes me wonder if Bitlocker is somehow a culprit here.
But I guess worst case is to back up your data, do a fresh install of Windows 11, restore your data/re-install applications & move on. At some point that's going to end up being faster than troubleshooting failed cloning attempts.
Yeah, I have reached that point yesterday. Gave it one last shot with MS' own system image tool and same results. The upside - doing a system recovery with the "keep my data" option actually worked okay. User data, ssh keys and so on still there, and an HTML file on the Desktop with a list of all the apps that were removed. Could have been worse... Thanks again for the help!