Moving cygwin installation to another drive windows

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When it comes to Windows, 3rd party cloning tools are not an efficient way to image a partition. Is there a process or piece of software that can help me do this, from a live environment running on a USB drive? Somehow I need to clone the files from the old to the new SSD and create a boot record on the new SSD, without having the old system accessible. Just fixing the old m.2 SSD is not an option, as it is also degraded (cache on it is broken).

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I am okay with 1:1 cloning the drive, as long as I can still create the boot record and resize the partition to the full SSD size.

I also specifically want to cut out any other drives, but there is no boot record on the m.2, so that needs to be created on the new SSD during this process. The new SSD is larger (1TB) than the old one (128GB), but I cannot boot up the old system, only access its files.

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I would like to move my Windows install from the old m.2 to the new m.2. Install it would not let me boot into it, just the fresh/blankР”Р„s a result, I ordered a new m.2 SSD and an m.2 to SATA enclosure (so I can pull the data off the old m.2, as my motherboard only has one m.2 slot). Windows' recovery terminal would not let me create aР”Р‡resh boot record on the m.2, and while it still recognized that

I swapped in a different SSD and did an error check on the m.2,.

My SATA SSD kicked the bucket completely, which made my system inaccessible.

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I put in an m.2 SSD and installed Windows 10 on it, but the boot loader/record was not moved, the old SSD was kept inside the system.I had a PC with a SATA SSD, this SSD started having issues.Presumably it should be possible to take that dumped list and use it as input either to the -P option of setup or to pycmg, although that doesn't retain the same package versions and it's messy enough that I still would expect a better solution.There are a lot of questions like this, but given the specific circumstances I am adding this one as a new question as there are some specific issues that need to be tackled.

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(Addendum: I see from the answers to Cygwin package management how to dump a list of packages that are installed on the first computer, but not how to use the dumped file to duplicate the installation on the second. I suppose one plausible way would be to copy the actual installation and the configuration file for setup.exe that records what has been installed, if there isn't a cleaner way to do it, but I don't know what configuration information would need to be copied for this to work - and I'd assume there has to be a better way, doesn't there? Alternately, the Google search I tried found suggestions to just copy the installation itself, which obviously will prevent setup.exe from later updating it because the information about what's installed will change. The two ways that I know of are to copy the directory of downloaded installation packages from the first computer and do an 'install from disk' on the second, selecting everything - but that will include packages that were installed and later removed, as well as what is currently installed. How can I do this in a way that doesn't involve manually going through the list of installed packages on the first computer and entering it in the installation checkboxes on the second?

I'd like to duplicate this installation on a second computer, with the same set of packages installed. I have a computer that has a Cygwin installation that has been customized over the years by installing additional packages as needed using Cygwin's setup program.

Moving cygwin installation to another drive windows