repair cloned drive efi partition | Linus Tech Tips | Page 1

inland stirrup Oct 23, 2022, 4:32 AM

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Long story short: cloned hdd to ssd with macrium. Will not boot. Recovery media loaded, refuses to touch efi partition of new drive

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Need help getting diskpart to delete or format old efi partition

ionic current Oct 23, 2022, 12:27 PM

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This is why we don't advise cloning the OS

tepid scroll Oct 23, 2022, 12:35 PM

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Yep, I would install the OS fresh and manually copy what data you want

inland stirrup Oct 23, 2022, 2:48 PM

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It's a laptop for my grandmother. She doesn't want to setup a fresh OS

brave quartz Oct 24, 2022, 3:54 AM

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Have you tried running the usual BCD repairs from recovery media etc ?

arctic hemlock Oct 24, 2022, 3:59 AM

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Just boot up linux shortly if you have a usb flying around that you can use, mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/partition if diskpart completely refuses.

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