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I cloned my failing SSD using Macrium Reflect, but it didn't copy the UEFI data, if Windows startup repair can't fix it, what options do I have? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by Speculater@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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The "startup repair" Macrium offers is garbage and won't even load, so while I have all my data, I don't have an OS...

I appreciate any insights!

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's a bit of a long shot, but I recently had a similar issue that kind of resolved itself. I cloned from one SSD to another and it wouldn't boot, tried pretty much all the recovery options but wasn't getting anywhere. The drive I cloned had both W10 and 11 on it.

I set up a Windows 10 installer USB, booted from that, and for some reason the W11 partition gave me an option for a system restore point that wasn't available when previously booting from the SSD. It did its thing and after that I was able to boot into both W11 and then following that, W10.

Don't know if that helps you at this point but either way I wish you luck.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the tip, may help in the future. The failing drive was failing so quickly that I just went with a fresh install on the new one to get what I could and trash it. SSD is barely a year old too, never going with Kingston again.