I cloned an SSD disk to a bigger disk using EaseUS Todo Backup, not realising I really needed their Partition Master software. All their software is pretty awesome by the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I tried to boot from the cloned disk, it kept booting Windows on the old disk, a bit like when the LILO\/GRUB points to an installation on a different disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started looking in to the Windows world of booting, which uses a 100MB UEFI System Partition at the beginning of the disk to hold boot information. It can even be used for a dual-booting menu for different Windows versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To fix my problem, however, I needed to update the cloned system partition to point to the new cloned disk rather than the old one. Here’s how simple it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
c:\\> bcdboot B:\\Windows \/s E:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
B: being your clone Windows SystemRoot and E: being the cloned system partition you want to update. B: and E: obviously varies. You can optionally add \/f <firmware type> but I don’t think it matters if you are on the same system the disk will be used in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man page for this command can be found below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-hardware\/manufacture\/desktop\/bcdboot-command-line-options-techref-di<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I cloned an SSD disk to a bigger disk using EaseUS Todo Backup, not realising I really needed their Partition Master software. All their software is pretty awesome by the way. When I tried to boot from the cloned disk, … Continue reading