Cloning Windows 11 and Getting it to Boot: Difference between revisions
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**If Booting from the Windows 10 or 11 DVD / BR / ISO, at the first installation screen: SHIFT +F10 opens a command prompt | **If Booting from the Windows 10 or 11 DVD / BR / ISO, at the first installation screen: SHIFT +F10 opens a command prompt | ||
**Switching between RAID (Intel or other software based RAID), AHCI, IDE for SATA (or IDE / PATA) is much easier in Windows 11 (see below) | **Switching between RAID (Intel or other software based RAID), AHCI, IDE for SATA (or IDE / PATA) is much easier in Windows 11 (see below) | ||
== BCDBoot Command == | |||
It seems like cloning software lives to not be able to clone the Boot Folder properly. Or Microsoft has done something to make it very difficult to clone the Boot (or EFI) Folder properly. | |||
To fix a Partition's 'boot information' (not just the BCD File): '''bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-us /s c: /f ALL /v''' (choose the language of your choice, just to make sure the bcdboot command gets it right.) | |||
* ...right after the bcdboot command is the C:\Windows: This is where the 'source' files are (IE, what the bcdboot command copies to the destination) | |||
* /s: The Partition / Volume where the information is to be written, as identified by a drive letter (If a Volume / Partition hasn't been assigned a drive letter, use the DISKPART command to assign a drive letter: https://winaero.com/change-drive-letter-windows-10/, or any other number of websites with a how to on the subject ) | |||
* /f: What BCD information to create / write (IE, MBR or UEFI or both (ALL)) | |||
* /v: Verbose, IE display the 'log file' as it's doing things. Don't worry about errors it displays, as long as at the end it says 'succeeded'. | |||
...from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/bcdboot-command-line-options-techref-di?view=windows-11 | |||
==Fast Boot (not to be confused with Ready Boost)== | ==Fast Boot (not to be confused with Ready Boost)== | ||