Damn Windows 10 Clone

Challenge that shouldn't have been a challenge: Clone a conventional hard drive onto a new SSD.

I first tried to accomplish this through the operating system's tools alone, since there is a way to (theoretically) mirror two drives. But for whatever reason, Windows 10 kept objecting to my efforts to engage in this process. This may have been due to corrupt sectors on the original hard drive. I turned to the third party market with Macrium Free, and this tool seemed to be an intuitive solution to making a true clone. In fact, once I understood the interface (and repaired the source drive through CHKDSK multiple times), everything seemed to be smooth sailing. But, upon boot this mysterious error:

A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed with codes 0xc000000e

Ok, that's fine, no worries, since Macrium has a USB boot tool program to fix pesky MBR records. But when running it, I got stopped repeatedly because the keyboard/mouse became inactive. Stopped working entirely. I don't blame Macrium here, since the same thing happened with Windows PE recovery tools. It could very well be the problem was the BIOS or the Dell Hardware, or whatever.

So the solution here was to create a bootable Windows 10 full installation USB drive, and during setup, click the tiny "repair" link. I actually had to run the repair utility twice, but then the SSD booted up just as I had hoped.

TLDR; Windows 10 clone to SSD total nightmare, used Macrium for clone, ended up needing full Windows 10 installation USB drive to access functional repair tools.