That was it! I enabled the BIOS RAID setting for the SSD in the target, and restored the image again, and it booted right up.
I have no idea why RAID was enabled in the source system, or what RAID even means for a notebook with a single M.2 SSD drive.
Basic restore of Windows 10 image fails
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Re: Basic restore of Windows 10 image fails
If it's an Intel chipset, it's likely enabled to allow easy configuring of their Rapid Storage / Smart Response features.
Re: Basic restore of Windows 10 image fails
So I've learned that a mismatch completely breaks Windows.
I looked around and found this possible way to convert from RAID to AHCI:
https://support.thinkcritical.com/kb/ar ... de-to-ahci
I looked around and found this possible way to convert from RAID to AHCI:
https://support.thinkcritical.com/kb/ar ... de-to-ahci