SSR Restore of Win 8.1 will not boot

Hi,

we have been using Norton Ghost with Windows 7 for years. As we are rolling out Windows 8.1 in my company. I have been testing SSR to backup and restore a Windows 8.1 system with upgrade of the SSD from 128GB to 256GB.

I did a full backup of the SSD, swapped the drives, used diskpart to clean the disk and then used the Symantec disk to restore the operating system.

The restore reported it had completed the job, but the system refused to boot. The files can be seen on the new drive, but rebooting is impossible. 

I have spent the past 4 days reading every message I could find on this forum to get this to work - to no avail.

Using the Windows 8.1 installation disk, I have tried to repair the boot, but nothing works.

Start-Up Repair reports: "Start-up Repair couldn't reapair your PC"

"Refresh your PC" reports: "The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again"

Using the command prompt, I tried to manualy fix the boot sector.

I hope somebody here can help me...