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Why can't I boot from my cloned drive?

I am trying to replace an HDD with a SSD on an old Samsung Series 5 Ultra. I have tried cloning the drive multiple ways: Tried with Macrium - drive wouldn't boot and got stuck in a loop restarting ...
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I have cloned my SSD to an HDD because the SSD needs reformatting. Do I just clone it back once the SSD is reformatted?

I was told I needed to reformat my SSD from exFAT to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to increase its performance speed. I use it to produce music and some of my plugins were running real slow. I have ...
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How to clone Windows 10 Home from SATA SSD to new nVME SSD? [duplicate]

Here's my particular situation: Have a new MSI Codex R desktop which came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD with Win 10 Home. I've booted up, pulled windows update, installed my G513 Carbon keyboard driver and a ...
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I cloned my windows ssd and set target ssd as 1st boot priority, but there is no option to load second windows

How can I fix it? I used "macrium reflect" to clone. Do I need to perform some extra steps now? Why it is not working?
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How to clone HDD to an SSD (OS) and HDD (Data)

Is it possible to clone an HDD by moving the OS to a target SSD and all the data to an HDD? I have a laptop (Let's call it laptop A) running Windows 10 with a 1TB HDD which has very important ...
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Cloning 128GB SSD to a new 240GB SSD [closed]

I suppose this is a duplicate, but I didnt find it. Sorry if it is obvious. The situation is this. I am installing a new computer with a 128GB SSD, leaving only 40GB of free space. I suppose space ...
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I can boot from a clone, but only when the original drive isn't plugged in

I have a Samsung 850 EVO with Windows 10 installed and a new, blank Samsung 960 EVO. I'd like to move Windows to the 960 since it's faster. Then I can wipe the 850 and use it as extra storage. I ...
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Can I transfer a Samsung Evo 850's SSD to another computer?

What I'd like to do is to use the SSD on the new computer I am building, but right now it has a copy of Windows on it from the old computer. Is there a way to clone the SSD's Windows to another hard ...
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Can't boot Windows 8.1 after cloning from HDD to SSD

I have been running into this issue sometimes when cloning HDDs to new SSDs and was wondering is anyone had some ideas; I use EaseUS backup normally to clone disks and any Windows 7 one will work fine,...
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How to clone SSD on PC while OS is running?

I have on my PC an Intel 120 GB SSD (the Windows drive) and a 1 TB HDD. I want to replace the Intel 120 GB SSD with a Crucial 256 GB SSD (and after that use the Intel drive as a third drive). How can ...
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Cloning win 7 32 bit from HD to SSD Macrium reports incompatible sector size

Created a drive image of Win 7 Prof 32 bit on an HP 6930P laptop from the internal Seagate 160Gb HD on to a USB 3 TB Toshiba HD with Macrium (5.something,latest free download) and verified. Bought ...
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