On the next boot, everything worked properly. I didn't need to use bootrec, or bcdboot to rebuild the ESP, and I had carefully not overwritten it when restoring the partition for the C: drive.
This happens in both safe mode and normal boot (setting safemode with bcdedit /set osdevice partition=C: Continuous movement keeps cursor active but it resets to the centre of the screen (jumps) every few seconds. Black screen appears after the Windows loading screen and moving the mouse brings a cursor up which disappears after a couple of seconds not being moved. New ESP fails to boot copied drive when old HDD removed.
I now seem to have two copies of the ESP, one on old HDD which successfully boots original C: partition, and has at times booted new copy (labelled D:) - disk management console shows D: is system, primary, boot. This procedure won't affect your settings, installed applications, and personal files. Since the issue persists after performing the steps on the article, we suggest performing an in-place upgrade using the Media Creation Tool to repair possible corrupted operating system files. Already had a Linux partition on SSD, so didn't want to reformat/clone over the SSD.Ĭopied the C: drive to SSD, and have now been around and around the recovery environment trying to move ESP to SSD. In reply to MichaelA306's post on November 19, 2017.
Basically trying to move Windows installation from one drive to another (HDD -> SSD).
