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Restore to a New Drive Failure to Boot

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:00 pm
by bDerek
I have Win10 and Ubuntu on a SSD that is starting to go bad and have backed up Win10, Recovery, EFI, Ubuntu root and home directories using a recent Image for Windows usb. I am operating in UEFI secure boot mode. On the new target drive I have created the same partitions (size, type and order) that was on the original drive. And both original drive and new drive are a GPT type. I removed the old SSD and did a restore of the Win10, EFI, and Recovery tbi backup files to their respective new partitions and tried to boot that up and it failed with a 0xc000000e error which means it can't find a drive.

I'm doing something wrong. Perhaps I should not restore the EFI? Or are there some restore options like "update boot partition" and "update boot.ini" that should be checked? Suggestions? Thanks.

Re: Restore to a New Drive Failure to Boot

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:49 pm
by OldNavyGuy
What I've done in the past is either clone the existing drive to the new using the IFW Copy function, or do a clean install of Windows 10 on the new drive and then restore the Windows partition only.

Re: Restore to a New Drive Failure to Boot

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:59 am
by Brian K
If you have an Entire Drive image, just restore the image to a new, blank SSD.