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thelearner21
I have an HP Elitebook 850 G3. It was fitted with a 180 GB Sata M2 SSD - which is now struggling or free space.
I bought a Kinston 1 TB KC2500 SSD to fit to the M2 slot.
I cloned the 180 GB Sata to the 1 TB - but although the drive was recognised and worked, and was recognised as a UEFI device in the BIOS - it would not boot at all.
I then created a W10 system image file using the W10 backup.
I fitted the 1 TB SSD - booted from a W10 64Bit UEFI USB drive - and installed the image file to the SSD - all 4 volumes were copied OK - but it still would not boot and Windows could not repair the start up issues. There was a large unused partition on the SSD.
The Kingston 1TB device was not recognised as a UEFI boot device,
Secure boot is disabled in the BIOS and this setting has never been changed.
I decided to do fresh install of Windows from the USB stick. This worked OK, but now in UEFI boot list - I do not see Kingston but see Windows UEFI Boot Manager in the M2 slot.
I have 2 Windows 10 volumes - Volume 4 which is my old system image install and the one I'd really like to use - as it has all my drivers and software installed. However Windows will not start when volume 4 is selected - and Startup repair cannot repair volume 4 to let it boot.
Volume 8 has the new install and boots OK - but if I continue with this I have to reinstall all drivers and applications - which will be hugely time consuming for me.
I thought I'd imply put the 180 GB SSD back in and be back to normal - but now it will not boot and does not appear in the UEFI partition table. So I am really stuck now.
Is there any way I'd be able to get Volume 4 Bootable? Or the old SSD bootable?
I will try and post a snip of drive management - disk 0 is a 2.5" ssd used for storage and backup.
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I bought a Kinston 1 TB KC2500 SSD to fit to the M2 slot.
I cloned the 180 GB Sata to the 1 TB - but although the drive was recognised and worked, and was recognised as a UEFI device in the BIOS - it would not boot at all.
I then created a W10 system image file using the W10 backup.
I fitted the 1 TB SSD - booted from a W10 64Bit UEFI USB drive - and installed the image file to the SSD - all 4 volumes were copied OK - but it still would not boot and Windows could not repair the start up issues. There was a large unused partition on the SSD.
The Kingston 1TB device was not recognised as a UEFI boot device,
Secure boot is disabled in the BIOS and this setting has never been changed.
I decided to do fresh install of Windows from the USB stick. This worked OK, but now in UEFI boot list - I do not see Kingston but see Windows UEFI Boot Manager in the M2 slot.
I have 2 Windows 10 volumes - Volume 4 which is my old system image install and the one I'd really like to use - as it has all my drivers and software installed. However Windows will not start when volume 4 is selected - and Startup repair cannot repair volume 4 to let it boot.
Volume 8 has the new install and boots OK - but if I continue with this I have to reinstall all drivers and applications - which will be hugely time consuming for me.
I thought I'd imply put the 180 GB SSD back in and be back to normal - but now it will not boot and does not appear in the UEFI partition table. So I am really stuck now.
Is there any way I'd be able to get Volume 4 Bootable? Or the old SSD bootable?
I will try and post a snip of drive management - disk 0 is a 2.5" ssd used for storage and backup.
Continue reading...