#WINDOWS 10 CLONE BOOT DRIVE MAC HOW TO#

It's very simple: how do you copy a system partition running Windows 10 to a new hard drive, and be able to boot to that new drive? However, I am also finding that a simple thing like copying a win 10 volume to a new hdd seems to be complex and I am not finding any good 1st party tools from On the new 1 TB WD drive in Disk Management now, then do disk clone and see how that works out. I am going to try blowing away the partitions however, system clone requires I pay money for the software. Found out people using AOMEI report success because you can copy the system partitions and the primary partition and that should work. Still cannot boot off the 1 TB WD drive.Дid more research. Did more research, found that I need to set the new partition as active. Will not boot off the new 1 TB WD drive.Дid some research, found that I did not copy the required 500 MB partition from primary 150 GB original drive that Windows needs to run. To be super slow, and now upgrading to a 1 TB Western Digital drive.ДЄfterwards, I shut down, switched my SATA connectors so SATA 0 connects to the bigger 1 TB WD drive. Took 5 hours to clone the drive using 'drive to drive.' My original drive size is 150 GB and is old and slow. I tried using DriveImage XML program to clone my drive.

#WINDOWS 10 CLONE BOOT DRIVE MAC HOW TO#

It's somewhat frustrating to see someone ask a good and valid question on how to create a bootable volume, and see Microsoft support say 'no you don't have a problem'

Windows 10 clone boot drive mac