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Help: Cloned NVMe leads to boot failure - Laptop, Win10

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Hi

I just cloned my 250GB NVMe to a 1TB NVMe. Booting up with the new drive gives me a boot error message and restarts. Primary bootup in bios and windows repair didn't resolve the issue.

- I inserted the new drive into the laptop and the old one to an external enclosure.
- Booted up using Acronis bootable media (thumb drive).
- The old drive's main boot partition was between two other partitions so I cloned using manual mode to merge or migrate the unused space to the main boot partition.
- I chose the option to shut down once the cloning was finished.
- I unplugged the external drive and the USB thumb drive.
- Turned it on and when Windows is about to start, the system encounters a boot error.

I later cloned my drive again but in automatic mode and the error still persists.

What can I do to remedy this?

Best,

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NVMe drives require UEFI boot mode from the BIOS, which in turn require that any clone operation be performed using the same UEFI boot mode.

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

Check your BIOS settings with the working SSD installed and you should see 'Windows Boot Manager' as the Boot device for UEFI boot systems.

I have an update...

The original M.2 is not a NVMe drive.
How much of an issue is it cloning a non-NVMe to an NVMe?
I have here...a Crucial MX300 M.2 SSD SATA

 

Btw, my bootable media is running in UEFI boot mode and the new drive is a Silicon Power M.2 PCIe Gen3 SSD NVMe

What should I do?

DS, sorry but this type of migration is never going to be easy because of the different device driver requirements for each different boot drive.

See the forum topics below where other users have being doing similar migrations:

Topic: How to transfer a Windows 10 installation to a SSD NVME drive using Acronis

Topic: Clone from SATA HDD to NVMe SSD?

Topic: How to clone/migrate O/S system disk sata ssd over too a new NVME M2 SSD without data loss

Topic: Problem Cloning to an m.2 (Samsung 960 EVO 1TB) (PCIE NVME)

Topic: problem with upgrading NVMe M.2 SSD