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Q: Windows10 drive does not boot after cloning to SSD (mid-2010)

Hi to all.

 

In my mid-2010 mac pro, I have a windows 10 drive (upgrated from windows 8.1) in bay 3. I want to upgrade it to ssd. So, I bought one, I cloned the drive with the winclone pro app (v.5.4) but the new drive is not bootable. When I choose to boot from it, it stops to a blank (command line - like) DOS screen with a blinking dash.

 

Any suggestions?

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Jan 27, 2016 11:38 PM

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Q: Windows10 drive does not boot after cloning to SSD (mid-2010)

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  • by Mac the Duck,Solvedanswer

    Mac the Duck Mac the Duck Jan 30, 2016 9:23 AM in response to Mac the Duck
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    Jan 30, 2016 9:23 AM in response to Mac the Duck

    The problem was from limitations of El Capitan. The OS does not allow other applications to write to MBR (...) od the disks. So the new disk cannot be bootable.

     

    I installed Yosemity in another disk and cloned the hdd to ssd from there.

     

    There was another solution to disable "csrutil" from recovery terminal, but another problem I had, did not let me go to recovery mode (frequent to fusion drives).

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jan 31, 2016 8:40 AM in response to Mac the Duck
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    Jan 31, 2016 8:40 AM in response to Mac the Duck

    This - About System Integrity Protection on your Mac - Apple Support - prevents unauthorized applications from writing to critical resources. Winclone will fail writing the MBR if this is enabled. Yosemite and older OS X versions have no such concept. Be aware that this feature also use the NVRAM, so switching between El Capitan and other OS X Versions can cause unpredictable results when booting.

  • by Mac the Duck,Helpful

    Mac the Duck Mac the Duck Feb 2, 2016 12:55 AM in response to Mac the Duck
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    Feb 2, 2016 12:55 AM in response to Mac the Duck

    There was more in the story.

     

    The SSD was booting, but windows did not loading well. The system was not working at the end.

     

    The final solution was to clone the disk from the terminal:

     

    sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0 of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=16m conv=noerror,sync

     

    After 12 hours, finaly, I had a full working copy of my original disk and now my system works fine!