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Win 11 PC Will Not Boot After Restore

GeneralGeorgeGeneralGeorge
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I got my wife a new PC with OEM Win 11 installed. It worked fine when powered up. I had previously made a backup on a external hard disk of her old Win 10 pc using the free version of AOMEI backupper version 7.3.3 . I selected System Backup.The backup appeared to work correctly. The backup file was System Backup (1).adi. On the new pc I started AOMEI and selected Restore and Select Image File.Type of file was image (.adi,.afi). The restore looked like it ran correctly. Took about 45 minutes. I don't remember exactly if I restarted the pc or it did it itself but it came up with the message Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected device and press a key. I rebooted into the boot page and looked at the boot sequence. It was Windows Boot Manager. I think that is the correct boot sequence. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can get it to boot correctly.

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  • aiArtisanaiArtisan
    edited April 15
    George, are you trying to restore your old Windows 10 alongside your current Windows 11 on your new PC? Or, are you trying to erase Windows 11, and only restore Windows 10?
    Please go to another working PC, and use Partition Assistant free to create a PA USB utility, and Backupper 7.3.4 to create a USB utility on a 2nd USB drive. Then, go to the PC that is not booting, and boot from the PA USB drive, then post a screenshot for us that includes a photo of all of your disks, it will look similar to the photo below. It will help us to know what your disk structure looks like.
    After that, you could use Windows 11 USB to attempt Automated Startup Repair.
    Use the chart below to temporarily boot to USB drive, if necessary.

    Backupper WinPE USB:
    https://www.ubackup.com/help/create-bootable-disk.html
    Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary. Does not work on some Monitors.

    Partition Assistant WinPE USB:
    https://www.diskpart.com/help/make-bootable-cd-wizard.html
    Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary.

    Aomei (Win)PE Builder USB:
    https://www.ubackup.com/pe-builder.html
    Best for PCs before 2020, includes Partition Assistant, Backupper, Recuva, 7zip, OSF Mount, CPU-Z, Bootice, DiskMgmt.msc. Supports x64 portable apps. Does not support any additional drivers, such as some internal M.2 NVMe disks.
    Free tool not from Aomei:

  • adminadmin
    @GeneralGeorge, Please try to create a WinPE bootable media of AOMEI Backupper on a working computer, and then boot the new computer from WinPE to do restore again. Before restore, you can try to delete all system partitions on the disk via Tools--Wipe data feature. And then, do the restore again.
    Btw, the old Windows 10 is also OEM system?
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