Clover on dupe CCC back up drive not detected by BIOS on Z370

[PliSsK]

I am using Carbon Copy Cloner to create a non-encrypted bootable back up drive (Samsung T5 500GB over USB3.1 type C) of my Catalina installation.

I copied all the EFI files from my main drive to the external drive's EFI partition, including 'boot' file and 'EFI' folder containing Clover, Microsoft etc. However, if I try to change the boot order in the BIOS to the back up drive's EFI rather than my main internal drive's, it only detects the back up drive's Windows Boot Manager and doesn't detect Clover (UEFI OS). The internal drive's UEFI OS and WBM are shown in the boot order list as normal. I tried it with an without the 'boot' file but made no difference. When I need to boot up from the back up drive, I have to do it from another copy of Clover, e.g. in the internal drive's EFI partition or the same EFI files transferred on a USB drive. I do not have this problem with the USB stick's EFI partition with the exact same EFI folder but without the 'boot' file.

 

Any ideas? TIA.

Edited April 11, 2020 by PliSsK

[PippoX0]

You have to reinstall Clover after a CCC clone in new drive.

That’s it

It is always gone in this way.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

[PliSsK]

3 hours ago, PippoX0 said:

You have to reinstall Clover after a CCC clone in new drive.

That’s it

It is always gone in this way.

 

Cheers

 

Thanks for the reply. Do you mean a fresh install of Clover into that external drive's CCC EFI wiped partition, and then copying over the relevant kexts manually, as opposed to just copying all the files from one's main drive's EFI partition into the CCC clone drive's EFI partition?

 

Edit: Answer is yes. It worked. Thanks.

Edited April 16, 2020 by PliSsK
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