Trueimage renamed my drive's OEM name/model
I used Trueimage 2020 to clone my Samsung SSD from my Seagate ST1000 in my laptop (my laptop has 2 hard drive bays). Anyway, after completing the clone, I swapped out the Seagate and booted from my newly cloned Samsung SSD. To my surprise, during boot, the system showed the SSD as a ST1000LM014 and when I looked at it in Windows, it also shows it as the 1TB Seagate drive. How do I rename it back to the original Samsung 860 EVO SSD? If I look at the properties of the drive, it shows the Seagate name and model number but under Hardware it does show up as Samsung 860 EVO. There's no way to change the drive name in either Properties, etc. I suspect it may be something encoded in the Windows registry perhaps? Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this matter.


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I have a vague memory of seeing something similar to this reported in the forums previously but not of what caused it??
Again, if I remember correctly, I think that the remedy was to go into the Control Panel > Device Manager while booted into Windows, find the Disk Drive and delete it from there then restart the PC and allow Windows to correctly detect the Samsung EVO SSD as it boots again.
I would definitely recommend making a full disk backup before trying it unless you intend to revert back to the original Seagate drive and start over if anything goes wrong!
Note: I have tried this on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine running Windows 10 and all worked as expected (other than the fact my disk drive remained the same as wasn't incorrect).
The VM restarted and rediscovered the disk drive along with offered me the option to upgrade to Windows 11 which I have declined at the moment!
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Thanks both of you for your comments. As strange as it sounds, yes, during POST before the OS actually boots up, the laptop shows the typical memory/RAM checks and then the drives, where it shows the Seagate ST1000 instead of the Samsung 860 EVO. So it's obviously not something within Windows so will try the BIOS stuff. This laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite which doesn't have the UEFI boot protected stuff like the newer PCs. I'll play with the BIOS and see what happens.
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