The “startup repair” Macrium offers is garbage and won’t even load, so while I have all my data, I don’t have an OS…

I appreciate any insights!

    • Thanks, I’ll flash this with my laptop. I made a Windows Recovery Disk, but apparently that’s worthless. My options are to attempt a repair or turn off the PC… Like you said, the attempt was hot garbage.

      I wish Macrium wasn’t so highly regarded, I would have attempted this with another route. Live and learn I guess. It took four days to copy the data, it corrupted the source, and the trial key they give you doesn’t allow access to their support forums.

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    It’s a bit of a long shot, but I recently had a similar issue that kind of resolved itself. I cloned from one SSD to another and it wouldn’t boot, tried pretty much all the recovery options but wasn’t getting anywhere. The drive I cloned had both W10 and 11 on it.

    I set up a Windows 10 installer USB, booted from that, and for some reason the W11 partition gave me an option for a system restore point that wasn’t available when previously booting from the SSD. It did its thing and after that I was able to boot into both W11 and then following that, W10.

    Don’t know if that helps you at this point but either way I wish you luck.