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Bushido
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Apr 01, 2026

Cloning HDD to SDD

Hi!

 

I used Macrium Reflect to clone two volumes (EFI system partition used for Windows Boot Manager and GRUB, and primary NTFS containing operating system with files) from HDD to SDD.

After I tried to boot, the cloned GRUB gave errors. Then I deleted the cloned GRUB from the EFi volume from SDD. Now I see black screen for some minutes and laptop shuts down.

I am suspecting that the EFI volume on SDD includes reference to the old drive letter(s).

 

How to fix that issue? With diskpart on Windows on HDD?

 

HDD contains Windows 11 and latest Ubuntu with FAT32 partition.

During cloning, I only selected FAT32 and Windows 11 partition.

 

Ext on Hitachi is for Ubuntu.

During cloning, I also extended the original size of Windows volume to the maximum that was free on SDD.

 

Firstly the GRUB did not detect Windows on SDD. I then refreshed the GRUB on Ubuntu and now I have two Windows entries on GRUB. 1 on HDD is working but second on SDD is not booting (black screen for 2 minutes and then laptop shuts off). 

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