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!
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I've recently started using a Hetzner storage box for encrypted daily incremental backups and I'm very happy with it so far.
I'm sorry to hear it, and I hope you are being kind to yourself.
Woah, are you okay?
When you say
Note which partition is active/bootable on the old SSD
you mean which partition has the "boot" flag, correct?
Hey, thanks for taking the time. I really appreciate it!
Clonezilla indeed takes care of all the partitioning and the flags. I cloned the old SSD to the new SSD once more and it of course still won't boot. (Never mind that partition 3 of old SSD says bitlocker- I reenabled it after taking the disk image.)
This is really frustrating. It's not even about the data since everything is synced to my server anyway, but installing all the software again and tweaking everything so it feels like "my" system is just a lot of effort I would have liked to avoid. Starting to come to terms with the fact that it isn't happening. I probably won't do it, but I have half a mind to ditch Windows again. If only MS Office didn't make such a convincing argument in my day-to-day...
No, it's NVMe to NVMe. I'll take a look at Veeam, thanks.
I see 4 partitions in GParted after attempt 4 as described in my post:
- p1 fat32, boot/hidden/esp 260MB
- p2 unknown, msftres 16MB
- p3 ntfs, msftdata 470GB (this is the one I cloned from the old SSD)
- p4 ntfs, hidden/diag 1000MB
So, seems correct?
Bitlocker was off when I tried Clonezilla. I'll check for the partition flags. I wonder where they live, if they are not brought over in a bit-for-bit copy? Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the reply. The bootrec commands I all tried to no avail (all say no windows installation found.) Surely, my latest attempt has the correct boot partitions after I let the Windows installer handle it all and overwrote only partition 3 afterwards? I'll check again anyway, thanks.
Just been through the fire of having to clone my system to a new SSD and no, startup repair did nothing for me.