Ok so I was trying to clone 512gb nvme ssd to my new 2tb drive with clonezilla and it keeps taking me to automatic repair. I unplugged the original drive and replaced it with the new one before booting. I ran a chkdsk both times before cloning.
The first time I cloned the drive i used these settings:
device to device beginer disk to local disk Chose my source and target Skip disk checking -k0 use source partition table
Then I tried these settings:
device to device expert disk to local disk Chose my source and target Left everything as default -k1 Create partition table proportionally
I also plan on partitioning half of the drive so that I can dual boot linux as Window 10 is reaching eol and I don't want anything to do with Windows 11 and I still need Windows for gaming.
Did you try running the repair to see if it fixes it?
The reason is the boot drive now has a different ID, so Windows can't boot from it. So it assumes (rightly so) that the boot drive has changed and launches into repair to fix it. This is something repair can fix for you normally.
Another way is to open up a command prompt in the repair environment (or from a Windows USB stick). Then use the bcdtool to edit the boot options and tell it to use the correct drive. There are plenty of instructions on this found with a simple Google search.
The cloning probably went fine, so don't assume it has anything to do with that. Just a completely different ssd which trips up the boot.
Notably on Linux device ID are also normally used, so you would have the same kind of issue. Ignore all the Linux fanboys that go Windows bad Linux good and don't actually help you.