Yesterday, my Windows installation broke, so I decided to do a fresh install.
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It appears that some of the partitions were located on the HDD and not the SSD. When you cooked your drive, did you only clone the C: volume/partition or the whole drive? If you did the former, and you deleted the other partitions, your computer itself can't find Windows so it doesn't boot. You might be able to shrink the SSD and add an EFI partition to boot the drive.
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Hello Bruno Mendoza1 and welcome to the Microsoft Community!
According to your feedback, you are experiencing ssd partition anomaly issue
Your assumptions should be correct, I thought for a moment you could see if the following could solve your problem
I still think you can format the disk and reinstall the computer
1. Format the disk using diskpart and boot from the USB drive:
Insert the USB flash drive into your computer, reboot your computer and enter BIOS/UEFI setup (usually press F2, F10 or Del).
Set the USB flash drive as the preferred boot device, save and exit BIOS/UEFI.
2. Enter the command prompt:
After booting from the USB flash drive, select the language and keyboard layout, and click “Next”.
In the installation screen, press Shift + F10 to open the command prompt.
3. Format the disk using diskpart:
Start the diskpart utility by typing diskpart at the command prompt and pressing Enter.
Enter the following commands to format the disk step by step:
list disk
# List all disks
select disk X
# Select the disk to format, X is the disk number.
clean
# Clear all partitions on the disk
create partition primary
# Create the primary partition
format fs=ntfs quick
# Quick format to NTFS file system
assign letter=C
# Assign drive letter (e.g. C)
assign letter=C # Assign drive letter (e.g. C)
# Exit diskpart
After completing these steps, your disk will be formatted and ready to install a new operating system, and then see if you still have this problem!
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Kirito|Microsoft Community Support Specialist
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