This time when I rebooted and the computer started up. So to further test, this time I removed the current C: drive and installed the clone E: drive (plugging in to same SATA port that C: was using. I restarted but this time went into BIOS (UEFI) and set the new E: drive as first boot device, checked all the settings and restarted. All I got was a blinking white dash on a black screen. I booted up using F11 to select the boot drive, and I selected the new drive E: (a Samsung 850 Pro SSD). I was wondering if something didn't clone properly so I decided to try to boot of the cloned drive. Go to "Storage > Disk Manager"), the clone looks identical both the existing C: drive and cloned E: drive showed the primary partition as Active except the "E:" drive and does not show "Boot, Page File, Crash Dump" in the primary partition like the original drive does. open File Explorer, right-click on "Computer" or "This PC" depending on OS, then select "Manage". When I looked at the clone drive in Windows Disk Manager (i.e. The clone was successful (took 2.14 minutes). I used Macrium v6 for the first time to clone a 64GB SSD for the purpose of replacing the drive with a larger SSD. I wanted to post this in case anyone else runs into this.
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