Cloned windows 10 hangs in black screen with cursor

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I cloned Windows 10 from a HDD Partiton into an SSD Partition. The SSD has 2 Partitions: one (1st) is Windows 7 (manually installed) and the other is the cloned Windows 10 from previous HDD. I created the entry in Boot Menu, transfered the Boot Menu to SSD onto Win 7 Partition. Computer boots, a Win7 styled menu appears (black menu with multiple OS choices). I can select any but Windows 10 does not procede to the User Login even if it loads, just a black screen appears and a responsive cursor with loading style. The computer experiences high CPU load. I have created a Windows 10 bootable stick. But this one does not have a Repair Menu just to install a new copy.

Edit: Converted the old style Bootmenu to the Windows 10 bootmenu which gives an option to troubleshoot Windows 10.

What I have tried:

Tried to repair from a bootable Usb. Installation does not offer to repair ):

Posted 23-Jun-20 11:58am

music0011 hop

Updated 23-Jun-20 22:38pm

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Solution 1

We are not a PC tech support site: You need to find someone local who can actually look at the hardware and what you have done to it - and we can't do that.

Posted 23-Jun-20 19:48pm

OriginalGriff

Solution 2

There's lot of differences between HDD and SSD drives.
Few months ago, i've used AOMEI standard edition[^] (free for non-commercial use) to migrate my OS from HDD to SSD drive. I'd suggest to read this article: How to Migrate OS to SSD or HDD with AOMEI Partition Assistant [without Reinstallation]?[^] and this: Simple Trick to Migrate MBR OS to GPT Disk Directly[^]

If you're looking for bootable tool, please download an install on USB drive Hiren’s BootCD PE x64 (v1.0.1)[^], which already have AOMEI pre-installed (and few others too).

[EDIT]
I forgot to mention, that you need to
- convert MBR to GPT
- create at least 100MB partition reserved for EFI (before or after OS partition).

For further details, please see: MBR2GPT - Windows Deployment | Microsoft Docs[^]
[/EDIT]

Good luck!
It takes some time, but it's worth that!

Posted 23-Jun-20 20:25pm

Maciej Los

Updated 23-Jun-20 22:03pm

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music0011 hop 24-Jun-20 4:25am

Thank you for your input.

music0011 hop 24-Jun-20 7:23am

In my case I formatted SSD in MBR, no System Reserve, No EFI. Installed manually Windows 7 in a single partition and cloned another external partition that contained Windows 10 with MiniTool 'as is' but the cloned Windows 10 failed to properly initialize, due to a conflict in the path. Luckily enough I got it working. Would advise to delete the entries in HKLM\System\MountedDevices just prior to proceding with partition cloning. Once cloned and source ejected. The cloned OS will boot without problems, no Migration needed. Also to not forget to add the new OS to the Bootmenu.

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music0011 hop · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-24T03:25:00

Solution 3

I solved this problem by removing all device entries in HKLM\System\MountedDevices
Follow the link for a thorough explanation.

clone - Cloned Windows 10 hangs in black screen with cursor - Super User[^]

Posted 24-Jun-20 3:25am

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Maciej Los 25-Jun-20 2:12am

Good to hear that you resolved issue by yourself.
5!