[Luca]

Nino, I did a clean install of windows 10 (1809) from USB stick (via windows download tool) after two weeks of trying to solve ‘cloning issues’. Everything went smoothly, all drivers installed themselves during the installation <b>process</b> and actually it was advised to me by Acer support team which I finally decided to call (I’ve just bought Swift 1 laptop).  Finally I have one system, one EFI and a corresponding recovery partition created by Windows (on SSD). And eMMC is only used for storage by me. If I want to restore it to the initial state (which I doubt) I have a system image from two weeks back (eMMC).

 

TIP: During the installation process just delete all partitions shown to you (they will be made as unallocated) and then choose your SSD drive from the remaining eMMC and SSD unallocated disks’ spaces as a destination of OS you are installing. Windows will make EFI partition and then recovery partition on its own (in the order EFI 100MB, OS xMB, Recovery 500MB). After booting to Windows you won’t see your eMMC drive in Windows Explorer as it will be unallocated so you may want to initialize it in Windows’ Disk Manager.

 

At least it all worked for me!

[Luca]

Hello! I have similar problem though less dramatic. I have two windows 10 (one eMMC and one cloned on SSD). Boots to SSD every time alright. Everything OK, BUT: after restarting it gets stuck (black screen lights under keyboard). I can successfully shut down and then start but not restart.

(Before, I tried wiping emmc and it loaded successfully to ssd but some devices as WIFI or touchpad stopped working and reinstalling them did not work. So I restored emmc from back-up image. Also before wiping SSD system warned me that it is using some information from emmc. It it was right.)

 

So my questions are:

1. Why the problem with restarting only? Shutting down and then starting windows works fine (always boots to SSD).
2. What information (SSD) successfully cloned system is using from eMMC? Can I fix it anyhow?
3. Pascal, did Chupa’s advise work? Have you tried cloning via adapter and did it change anything?

Will be grateful for some advise as this switching from eMMC to SSD really frustrates me;)

[Luca]

I cloned Windows 10 from 64GB to 120 SSD (4 partintion with Recovery as the last) using both EaseUS and M.Reflect then used Minitool Partition Wizard for extending system partition.

HOWEVER it is not possible for me to use eMMC purely as a storage because apparently “system” still uses some information from eMMC <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>even though</span> it boots to SSD alright. That’s why I had to clone twice;) (after wiping eMMC I restored it from back-up image).

After wiping eMMC after the first cloning, I indeed booted to SSD, no problem, but my devices such as WIFI, touchpad and some others didn’t work. Installing drivers did not help as there were drivers already installed. Reinstalling them etc. didn’t help. Something else was wrong and system failed to access them (yellow triangle with exclamation mark under device manager). ALSO: before wiping eMMC I was warned by system (booted to SSD!) that system  is using eMMC and there will be some problems.

Also: having two windows 10 (emmc and ssd) I confirm that there is no such option under System/Advanced setting/ as “Other OS” there is only one “Windows 10”.

And everything would be perfect even with having two windows 10 installed, if not for the problem of restarting the computer, it won’t go. Shutting it down and then starting it works fine. Boots alright to SSD as a main system drive (I changed booting order in BIOS only once after cloning). Also apps and updates and everything uses my SSD as it should. But it is far from being perfect because of restarting failure and probably more issues will come up soon…

 

SO, THE QUESTIONS ARE:

1. Why the problem or impossibility to restart computer? Shutting it down and then starting goes OK.
2. MORE IMPORTANT ONE: What information computer is using from eMMC that you cannot just wipe it after successful cloning???

I would appreciate anyone with expertise to explain this to me and not only to me as there are lots of folks like me who followed the promising route of cloning eMMC to SSD only to be disappointed or not perfectly happy;).

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