I cloned my hard drive but computer wont boot when i remove the old drive

[Jp1234]

Hi everyone, I have a laptop and installed a Inland Premium 256GB 3D NAND TLC M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive, Read/Write Speed up to 2900MB/s and 950MB/s and when I disconnect the old drive the computer wont boot. I used EaseUS TODO free version to copy the drive.

[cm992]

Did you check the boot order in your BIOS?

[WhitetailAni]

Open Disk Management and make sure that there are three partitions on the drive.

If not, simply reinstall Windows and copy over your files.

[Jp1234]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Open Disk Management and make sure that there are three partitions on the drive.

If not, simply reinstall Windows and copy over your files.

I dont have the Key to Microsoft office or windows to reinstall 

[WhitetailAni]

You can reuse keys as long as it's on the same computer.

[Jp1234]

1 minute ago, cm992 said:

Did you check the boot order in your BIOS?

No, but when I did it on my desk top using AOMEI and it copied everything and worked fine when I started it.

[Jp1234]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

You can reuse keys as long as it's on the same computer.

I dont have the Keys

[Jp1234]

6 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Open Disk Management and make sure that there are three partitions on the drive.

If not, simply reinstall Windows and copy over your files.

Ok so there are not any partitions so it only copied part of the drive. Is there a better FREE software that will allow me to copy the entire hard drive in one shot 

[WhitetailAni]

5 minutes ago, Jp1234 said:

Ok so there are not any partitions so it only copied part of the drive. Is there a better FREE software that will allow me to copy the entire hard drive in one shot 

Just reinstall Windows and copy your User folder.

[Jp1234]

4 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Just reinstall Windows and copy your User folder.

How without a disk, once i pull the drive it wont boot

[ndesign.ie]

jp1234

Macrium Reflect

EaseUS Partition Master

 

Best free to use and reliable.

 

 

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Jp1234 said:

How without a disk, once i pull the drive it wont boot

Create a bootable USB with the Microsoft-provided tool, reuse your product key from your current build, and then copy your files.

[Jp1234]

Just now, ndesign.ie said:

jp1234

Macrium Reflect

EaseUS Partition Master

 

Best free to use and reliable.

 

 

U used EaseUS but it didnt copy all the partitions so the drive doesnt boot

[Jp1234]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Create a bootable USB with the Microsoft-provided tool, reuse your product key from your current build, and then copy your files.

Why cant i just copy everything including partitions ?

[bmx6454]

you can try cloning again, but i don't recommend it. clones can be problematic(always are for me). you can download the media creation tool here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

use that to install win10 fresh on the new ssd, just make sure you install the version of* win10 that you currently have. as far as the win10 key, if you sign in with your Microsoft account, the key is linked and will activate the fresh copy when you sign in. if not, this tells you how: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-link-your-windows-10-product-key-microsoft-account

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Jp1234 said:

Why cant i just copy everything including partitions ?

This is easier to do and has a higher success rate.

[ndesign.ie]

Clonezilla can do it

Macrium Reflect can do it

 

It maybe best to create a backup recovery disc, remove old drives, restore from recovery.

[Jp1234]

49 minutes ago, ndesign.ie said:

Clonezilla can do it

Macrium Reflect can do it

 

It maybe best to create a backup recovery disc, remove old drives, restore from recovery.

I got Macrium but it is saying there i not enough space to clone. I am only using like 100gigs of the 1TB hard drive that im trying to copy

[ndesign.ie]

13 hours ago, Jp1234 said:

I got Macrium but it is saying there i not enough space to clone. I am only using like 100gigs of the 1TB hard drive that im trying to copy

easeus to shrink, macrium to copy.

If partitions aren't exact, nothing will happen.

shrink your main drive C by 5 - 10 GB below what is require.

easeus to move any partitions together

macrium clone

 

I do this a lot, the destination drive needs to be blank (Probably the popup error, macrium will display this option). I've moved 64GB M.2 to 960GB SATA SSDs using these 2 programs.

[Jp1234]

4 hours ago, ndesign.ie said:

easeus to shrink, macrium to copy.

If partitions aren't exact, nothing will happen.

shrink your main drive C by 5 - 10 GB below what is require.

easeus to move any partitions together

macrium clone

 

I do this a lot, the destination drive needs to be blank (Probably the popup error, macrium will display this option). I've moved 64GB M.2 to 960GB SATA SSDs using these 2 programs.

Ok so I’m macruim it is copy the entire disk partition including the free space. How do I make macruim just copy the used space of the partition

[ndesign.ie]

21 hours ago, Jp1234 said:

Ok so I’m macruim it is copy the entire disk partition including the free space. How do I make macruim just copy the used space of the partition

In Macrium Reflect on each drive there are blue boxes representing the partitions on that drive, checkbox is the selector, ticked for including in copy.

When you image/clone the drive, un-check unwanted partitions on source drive.

If you have reduced the size of your largest partition to fit the new drive, the partition at the end is not needed, clone away.

 

keep original image and/or disc.

[Mark Kaine]

On 1/20/2021 at 1:02 AM, Jp1234 said:

Ok so there are not any partitions so it only copied part of the drive. Is there a better FREE software that will allow me to copy the entire hard drive in one shot 

macrium reflect. 

 

 

But don't copy. clone. the whole drive. 

 

then turn off pc, swap the drives, turn on pc. 

 

nothing else needed, it should literally just work because windows won't notice any changes since the drive has been cloned. 

[Bearpaddocks]

On 1/20/2021 at 12:08 PM, Jp1234 said:

I got Macrium but it is saying there i not enough space to clone. I am only using like 100gigs of the 1TB hard drive that im trying to copy

To clone a drive the "traditional" way without software, the destination drive MUST be larger than the source drive.
 

 

On 1/21/2021 at 1:38 AM, ndesign.ie said:

easeus to shrink, macrium to copy.

If partitions aren't exact, nothing will happen.

shrink your main drive C by 5 - 10 GB below what is require.

easeus to move any partitions together

macrium clone

 

I do this a lot, the destination drive needs to be blank (Probably the popup error, macrium will display this option). I've moved 64GB M.2 to 960GB SATA SSDs using these 2 programs.

From what I'm reading here, It can now be done going from larger to smaller. Am I correct? (Though not sure why anyone would want to do that but...)

[ndesign.ie]

10 hours ago, Bearpaddocks said:

To clone a drive the "traditional" way without software, the destination drive MUST be larger than the source drive.
 

 

From what I'm reading here, It can now be done going from larger to smaller. Am I correct? (Though not sure why anyone would want to do that but...)

Correct.

 

People hand me "great laptop at the time" 1TB spinning rust to 'FIX'.

 

I normally look at the drive and give them either 240 or 480 gb ssd replacement, using EaseUS and Macrium