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Cloned HDD won't boot

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tallon

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I've just tried to upgrade my 500Gb HDD to a 1Tb HDD by using EaseUS Free version to clone the old drive to the new one which seemed to work fine. But when I tried to use it to boot the PC, it just kept going into the Asus BIOS screen - and I've no idea why or what I'm supposed to do with that.

Reverting to the old setup and booting up, I went into Device manager>Administrative tools>Computer management>Storage>Disk management and right clicked n the new drive and made it 'active. I noticed that the old drive also has a 'recovery partition of 450Mb so I also cloned that to the new drive.

Now if I try to boot with only the new drive I get Windows 'Error 0xc00000e..... required device inaccessible....'

When I reconnect the old drive (even leaving the new one connected as well) it boots fine.

I'm now at a loss at what to do.... one thing I noticed in 'Disk management' is that the old HDD is identified as 'Boot, Page file, Active, Crash dump, Primary', where as the new HDD only has 'System, Active, Primary'. I don't know what these mean but I would have though they should be the same - or not? Anyone know how to change them?

System:
Asus B85M-G motherboard
Core i5 4690 3.50Mhz
8 Gb memory
Windows 10 64 bit
 
I use easetodo for a lot of cloning and backups. You need to click clone, select the whole disk on the first screen, and then on the target screen select the second disk. Don't click on the individual partitions, but simply the check mark next to the drive letter. It'll copy over without issue and all you'll have to do once you plug the new hdd in is extend the partition in disk management once you get into windows.
 
If keeping the same drive type (HDD -> HDD -or- SSD -> SSD) I just Linux DD command. It works great for Windows drives. This also assumes the new drive is *at least* as big as the old one.

I boot up into a Linux live CD (Mint is my choice). Run "dd" and clone the old drive to new drive. When you boot into Windows on the new drive it will still have the old size....500GB in this case, but it will have 500GB or unused space as well. Tell Windows to expand to unused space and now you got the full 1TB.

dd will run at the speed of the slowest drive. But it's all sequential writes, so you're still looking at 100-150MB/s writes on a normal HDD.
 
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