I've been trying to clone my Dad's old HDD to a new NVMe drive, but after several failures with Macrium Reflect, I switched to using Rescuezilla, which also didn't work. Now, when I start the computer, it goes to a "Preparing Automatic Repair" screen and then fails, taking me to the Recovery Environment. I attempted to boot into Safe Mode, but I keep running into the error "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x7B)."
I think I might have done a couple of things that contributed to this situation:
- I shrank the volume of the C partition before the cloning attempt.
- I used gparted to rearrange the partitions, moving the recovery partition above an unallocated space that was created during the shrinking.
- After the cloning failed, I went back to gparted, moved the unallocated partition back above the Recovery partition, and then resized the OS data partition to fill the unallocated space, which threw an error that I overlooked because I was frustrated with the cloning issues.
I was trying to follow a video guide as well. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as I feel terrible about potentially breaking a computer that's not mine (thankfully, everything is backed up on an external drive). I've also verified that the BIOS settings are correctly pointed to the new drive.
2 Answers
Did you back up the entire drive or just the data? Ideally, you'd want a complete drive image, including all partitions, to make recovery easier. If you have a full image, you could use that as your best option to restore the system on the new NVMe drive. However, if the backup isn’t solid, your original HDD still has everything intact, so there's that to fall back on if needed.
It sounds like you might be able to restore from the backup if it's a full image. If you're not sure if it’s an entire drive image, check if you used the Back up and Restore (Windows 7) option in Control Panel; that typically creates an image of the system. Just make sure everything was saved correctly on the external drive!
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