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Anyone agree or disagree with me?

I have spent untold hours with this, including the many suggestions from knowledgeable people on this forum. The problem existed before 24H2. There was no dual boot problem on the previous PC only with this 2024 era Dell, which leads me to believe the BIOS is the issue.

Thanks Steve. I have reset the BIOS and set it back to factory defaults - no help. The external SSD was the OS disc from my closed recording studio and contains apps that are no longer available to install, so a complete reinstall is not an option. But that is not what I'm looking for. I'm...

The listed boot in the BIOS is (1) Windows boot manager and (2) the internal drive. The external drive is never listed that I've seen. The Windows boot manager is needed. The Dell BIOS seems more limited than say the BIOS in a MSI or ASUS motherboard that lists all devices and more options...

I've had several issues with my USB connected NVME Win 11. I'm now convinced previous posted problems really relate to this intermittent boot problem. I have a dual boot with the internal OEM NVME SSD and the external drive - both Win 11 Pro. The problem has been around when I first tried...

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.