Screwed up (literally) SSD migration

[Cakass]

I created a image of a Windows 10 Pro laptop drive ready to migrate it to an SSD. I removed the source hard disk and inserted the SSD and tried to restore the image to it. The image, created by Windows, turned out not to be usable, so I decided I would would have to create a new one -- only to discover that one of the phillips screws on the laptop was stripped and I could not get at the drive slot to put the old disk back.So I have a clean SSD in the machine and the old disk outside. I can read the old disk from another PC via a Sata-USB link. I tried and failed to boot the

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