I had a old Hitachi 1TB HDD, and I wanted to switch to SSD.
I used just 200gb of it, so I decided to go cheap and buy a 480gb Kingston SSD from Amazon.
I always cloned hard disks by using a Linux live USB and dd
command and I never had any problem, even if they were bigger than the destination (as long the used space was lower than the ssd capacity)
This time I issued the command
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdg bs=4M status=progress
As always to do the cloning.
After it completed the process I substituted the SSD in place of the old HDD and booted, but there was a 0xc000000f
error welcoming me.
I would prefer to not download win 10 again because I live in a place with very slow internet connection, and downloading 4gb can take more than 5 hours. Also, I don't want to download whole 4gb image for repairing the little boot of the system, which I know being present on the HDD.
I still have the HDD, so I can more likely restart the cloning process if it's needed, maybe with better settings. I think HDD had a recovery partition in the end, but it was probably not cloned due to the size of the data partition being higher than the SSD.
I thought I could resize partitions before doing the cloning, but gparted was not letting me doing so for unknown reason (primary ntfs partition did not show "empty space" but looked like 850gb used space)
Could you please guide me in doing the cloning process again correctly?
Or could you please explain how could I tell windows how to boot without having to download their ISO image?
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