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As I previously mentioned, I don't normally clone and restore full disc images. Tried it with Macrium X as I have had successful clones (testing) with older versions.

As reported here and on the Dell forums V8 clone was successful. Now, just trying to see if anyone did a successful clone with Macrium X.

Update: there is no update. No responses/resolution on the Macrium forum.

@glasskuter i don't normally use clone either, probably the last time in the old Win 8.1 or early Win 10 days and then only for testing and Macrium worked where other cloning programs failed or were iffy. I got lazy and tried clone and it bit me. The Macrium forum is no help, the responses...

I posted this on the Macrium Reflect forum. So far, only one person responded and wanted to blame it on EasyBCD even though I noted the X clone fails doing the BCD manually or with EasyBCD, and that V8 clone boots using EasyBCD or manually.

@SmokeMe I also got that screen one time. FWIW I tried the Macrium X clone again, but did the BCD manually through CMD rather than EasyBCD and it failed again.

@SmokeMe The blue screen is what I got with the Macrium X Clone (did the clone several times and all failures).. As previously noted I have a dualboot system and I created the BCD with EasyBCD. My Dell BIOS is looking for the Windows boot manager, which I assume EasyBCD creates. I did the...

It appears it is a Macrium Reflect X issue with Win 11. I installed Macrium Reflect V8 (free version) and the bootable clone was successful. Since I have a dual boot system I created the dual boot with EasyBCD (did this with the X version Clones too). I'm making this post using the booted...

I don't have an eSATA port, only Thunderbolt 4 and USB 3.2 ports on my Dell Inspiron 16 5630 Laptop. The original SSD (clone source) boots OK from either. Originally, I was going to buy a larger internal SSD and partition that and dual boot with it but not going to buy that right now. I have a...

The original SSD (Win 11 Pro) boots and works from a USB or Thunderbolt port. I tried to boot the cloned drive using the same USB port and Thunderbolt port. The problem, as I see it, is with the clone, not exact clone.

Your procedure to fix the problem does not address (fix) the clone problem, If I clone a drive that is bootable, the new drive should be bootable without having to "fix it".

I tried a couple things including redoing the BCD with EasyBCD (I have dual boot). I now get "inaccessible boot device" error message when I try to boot from the cloned drive (external connected to Thunderbolt port, although I get the same error connected to USB 3.2 port)).

The BIOS in my Dell Laptop doesn't give much useable data. The biggest thing I see is the OS partition shows as bootable in the original drive, but not in the cloned drive.

I probably should post this on the Macrium forum, but I'll start here. I've used older versions of Macrium Reflect to clone and it always worked. I tried to clone with X (SSD to SSD) and it shows successful completion but the new drive (USB Connected) will not boot. Windows reports it can't...

I'll get a larger SSD and install it then try the virtual disk. Thanks