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Trouble cloning Win 11 SSD (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi everyone, looking for help with an SSD/Win problem: My Thinkpad with Win11 has been acting up lately, and I am fairly sure the problem is with the SSD (very high disk load on startup and shortly before each of the many many crashes.) I would like to avoid having to set up my system from scratch.

I have a new SSD and have tried the following:

  • leave bitlocker intact, boot into Ubuntu live, dd the old disk to an external USB drive, install new SSD, dd disk to new SSD
  • same as above but with bitlocker disabled
  • boot into Clonezilla live, clone old SSD to external storage, clone external storage to new SSD
  • clean Windows install on new SSD and clone c: partition to new SSD with Clonezilla

All of these attempts invariably lead to an "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" blue screen, and "bootrec /fixboot" and the like executed from the recovery CMD shows "0 Windows installations found." Booting into Ubuntu live with the cloned SSD installed I can see all my user data intact with no apparent problems.

Is my old SSD/Windows installation broken beyond repair and do I have to accept it and move on or am I missing something?

Thanks for any help or pointers!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I have reached that point yesterday. Gave it one last shot with MS' own system image tool and same results. The upside - doing a system recovery with the "keep my data" option actually worked okay. User data, ssh keys and so on still there, and an HTML file on the Desktop with a list of all the apps that were removed. Could have been worse... Thanks again for the help!