Replacing system volume - won't boot

Question

Hello!

I am upgrading my Windows SSD (M.2 NVMe).

• I cloned the drive, using Clonezilla. It had 6 partitions, partition 3 was the Primary/OS partition. All were cloned.
• Then using Gparted I moved the partitions following the OS partition (4-6) to the end of the volume and expanded the OS volume (3) to use the unallocated storage.
• Booting from the original SSD and using a USB adapter with an SSD enclosure for the new volume, I verified that the drive is recognized by Windows, appears healthy, and that the Windows partition contents appear as expected.
• Using diskpart I verified that all the partitions are present and appear identical to the originals (except for the expanded size of partition 3).

However, when I swap the SSDs, during bootup I get this message:

Error: no such device: A22B-96B8
Error: file `\efi\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi' not found

What can I do to get my system to recognize and boot from the new SSD?

I'm guessing the Windows Boot Manager needs to be reconfigured due to a change in volume ID?

Answer 1

Hello! I'm Manoel Barros, a Microsoft user just like you! I will do my best to help you.

Boot problems are normal when you clone a disk drive. In the link below, from Microsoft Support, there are several troubleshootings that you can perform to resolve this type of problem.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/...

Below I will quote the Methods you should look for in the link to solve your problem.

• Method 1: Startup repair tool
• Method 2: Repair boot codes
• Method 3: Fix BCD errors
• Method 4: Replace Bootmgr
• Method 5: Restore system hive

I will be here to answer any questions or information! Review the topic if this information or troubleshootings helped you! In this way, you help other users too.