Correction: I found that my pc did NOT have a Microsoft reserved partition.
I cloned the system without the msr.
What I did:
used diskpart to clean the new SSD, convert gpt, created a 100MB FAT32 partition, then clone the NTFS windows partition from the old SSD to the remaining space of the new SSD.
used bcdboot to create boot files on the FAT32 parition, removed the old SSD.
PC booted successfully using new SSD after that. I thought all is good.
Is there a way to recreate a usable msr? (old SSD already formatted, can't clone/restore)
I tried one thing:
- shrink the windows partition
- diskpart => create partition msr
- now my disk has 4 partitions - reserved 15MB, FAT32 primary 100MB, windows partition 931GB, reserved 100MB
- retry the windows update again but still failing
I guess windows does not recognize the reserved partition(s) because they are probably empty and it needs the old files?
Thanks.
