I have a problem booting my dad's HP computer after copying data from its SSD to a new SSD. Neither the old, nor the new one boots. Please help, I am afraid I may have lost all my data. I need the computer to boot again normally.
TDLR: copied data using ddrescue
from old to new SSD, now both SSDs won't boot. It's a Windows 10 drive with BitLocker.
Error is blue screen with 0xc000000e
error.
HP computer: HP ProDesk 400 G4 Small Form Factor
Here is what I did:
ddrescue -f -n --ask /dev/<old> /dev/<new> /path/to/log
Between steps 5 and 6 I noticed fdisk
complaining about a missing "GPT backup at end of drive", which I assumed to have been from the halfway-copied-into-SSD. I may have looked wrong and it may have been the old SSD, although the problem wasn't there before any of the copying took place.
Result: The HP computer will not boot using any of the two drives. Important to note: I only realized my dad uses BitLocker after I copied the data. Clearly this is related, but I do not know how to fix the problem.
Of course I feel like an idiot, I was completely convinced simply copying data off a drive bit-by-bit could do no harm. I am a programmer so I should have known better than NOT to make a backup, but I am convinced I used the ddrescue
command correctly.
Things I've tried:
You need to get the "recovery key". Usually it's was stored in a file or with your Windows account - if you have one. In cooperate settings the domain controller might be setup to store it as well.
Decrypt the volume on the new SSD, run bootrec /fixmbr
and format the EFI partition. That should make the new SSD boot again.
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