This PC/Device needs to be repaired
I got this error message booting immediately after a clone operation: “This PC/Device needs to be repaired”.
From what I’ve read, this error means the Boot Configuration Data “BCD” file is corrupt.
How can this happen during a Clone operation?
Computer: HP desktop recently purchased with Win 10 Pro.
Hard Drives: Disk0 = Internal SATA 2TB Intel Optane+1.8TBHDD 17.5; Disk1 = Internal SATA 2TB WD Blue.
Acronis True Image 2020
Bit Locker Off
I booted from an ATI 2020 Rescue Disk (USB thumb drive) and performed a clone operation where my “From” disk is my internal primary Disk <0> and my “To” disk is an internal clean single partition Disk <1>.
Except during the clone operation, the two disks were never connected at the same time.
As soon as the clone operation finished and the PC shut down I disconnected the primary disk so I could test the boot from the cloned drive. I immediately got this error. I thought “No Problem, I’ll just go back and reconnect my primary drive.” To my HORROR it too got the needs repair error message. I was able to perform an ATI Restore so I’m up and running again. Thank goodness for ATI backup.
Since then I’ve been reading up on how to fix this error but I’m in no mood to put myself in a position where I need to follow those instructions, even to test it.
Have any of you experienced this error after a clone? Any thoughts on when or how the BCD got corrupted? Any thoughts on what inside the BCD might be corrupted? Any thoughts on exactly what the word “corrupted” means? Does Acronis change the BCD or is it Windows? Any thoughts on how to avoid this error?
Additionally, I put the cloned disk into an external USB drive case, plugged it in and deleted the partitions and reformatted the disk. I then went to shut down my PC using Start>Shutdown and it restarted instead of shutting down. I tried it again and it restarted again. I had to run the Shutdown /P /F command to get the PC to actually shut down. This was weird behavior. When I started the PC I got the same error again using my primary disk and I had to restore again. Yikes!
I need a simpler solution other than restoring.
There must be some type of behavior changing the BCD. I wish I knew more about it.
Needless to say, I won’t be running any more clone operations until I understand what happened.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.


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Thanks Steve!
Both Win 10 boot and Rescue Media boot are UEFI.
I'm going to follow your advice, abandon disk cloning. I've already used Recovery a couple of times and it works great.
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