Windows 8.1 Broken after cloning.

[Gilseg]

Hello!

 

Long storry short, it took me a long time to get my new ssd bootable and running after cloning it.

 

Everything seems to be working fine except windows update center doesn't want to work with me. When I try to open it I get an errormessage saying that "The file you are trying to locate does not exsist, perhaps you dont have proper administratory rights" (that is my transelation). But the intressting thing is that then the adress of the program says and it says E: and I'm running windows as C: however it was E: when I cloned it..

 

Is this something that can be solved or do I have to start from scratch? I would think regedit could solve this but I lack expereience with that sort of thing?

Anybody heard of this before? All help is greatly apprecitaed!

[Arty]

Long Story Short you Dont clone.

Wipe it fresh install next time.

to change drive letter. right click my computer/this pc > manage> storage> right click partiton change drive letter, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-add-remove-drive-letter#1TC=windows-7

[Gilseg]

Heya! I'm leaning towards reinstalling windows from scatch. I tryed to do what you said but It's not possible to change the label of the disk that is running the OS so to make the change you sugested isn't possible.

 

Perhaps if I booted from a usb stick?? Would that help?

[Tsuki]

Heya! I'm leaning towards reinstalling windows from scatch. I tryed to do what you said but It's not possible to change the label of the disk that is running the OS so to make the change you sugested isn't possible.

 

Perhaps if I booted from a usb stick?? Would that help?

correct, boot from a live disk and do it there. if you have a windows disk, you can do it through command prompt as well. although i dont know the commands off hand.

[GoodBytes]

Cloning is very iffy. It's not assured that it will work, and too many variable where it can fail (bad image of the clone, or bad copy of the clone of the image).

It's best to clean install.

[Gilseg]

Just for peoples information The solution was to Format the cloned SSD. I kept it just in case there would be a problem with the clone.. So there where 2 ssds in the computer containing windows. As soon as I took a leap of faith and formated the first ssd all the problems that I expereinced with the second ssd dissapered. All is now well.. Thanks for your help!