Hi everyone, looking for help with an SSD/Win problem: My Thinkpad with Win11 has been acting up lately, and I am fairly sure the problem is with the SSD (very high disk load on startup and shortly before each of the many many crashes.) I would like to avoid having to set up my system from scratch.
I have a new SSD and have tried the following:
- leave bitlocker intact, boot into Ubuntu live, dd the old disk to an external USB drive, install new SSD, dd disk to new SSD
- same as above but with bitlocker disabled
- boot into Clonezilla live, clone old SSD to external storage, clone external storage to new SSD
- clean Windows install on new SSD and clone c: partition to new SSD with Clonezilla
All of these attempts invariably lead to an “INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE” blue screen, and “bootrec /fixboot” and the like executed from the recovery CMD shows “0 Windows installations found.” Booting into Ubuntu live with the cloned SSD installed I can see all my user data intact with no apparent problems.
Is my old SSD/Windows installation broken beyond repair and do I have to accept it and move on or am I missing something?
Thanks for any help or pointers!
Are you going from a SATA drive to an NVMe drive? That frequently doesn’t work to clone. You’ll have to back it up with something like Veeam and restore it to the new drive. That may be the way to go anyway, given the problems you’re having.
https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.html
No, it’s NVMe to NVMe. I’ll take a look at Veeam, thanks.