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!
windows starput is so garbage that i needed to fix it installing installing this on a pendrive and booting from there https://www.system-rescue.org/
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.
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.
Thanks for the tip, may help in the future. The failing drive was failing so quickly that I just went with a fresh install on the new one to get what I could and trash it. SSD is barely a year old too, never going with Kingston again.
