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I've "cloned" a drive to SSD and now I can't boot from the SSD. If I pop the original HDD back in the laptop, it boots fine. The laptop has only one SATA port, so to clone the drive, I installed the master and recipient drives in my desktop. I'm using Easus Partition Manger.

Results from research:

  • there were no failures during the cloning
  • when transplanted back into the laptop, the boot order is set correctly in the BIOS
  • this is not quite the same problem as Elsewhere Or Here, where those users seem to have multiple drive bays in the systems they're cloning
  • I note a "Migrate OS" button", but that will only allow me to migrate the OS from which I'm presently booted. This is no good, since I don't want to boot my desktop from the donor laptop drive.
  • I've tried booting from the Windows 10 install DVD and it is unable to automatically fix the problem
  • I've tried fixing the MBR and it told me it worked, but it still don't boot.

Any suggestions, please?

KDM
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I speculate that there are many definitions of "clone" and Easus' definition simply does not align with mine.

This was solved by instead using Macrium Reflect's "Clone" function. It worked perfectly.

(Disclaimer: Other disk copy products do exist and may serve equally well.)

KDM
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