Restore to Samsung 950 Pro NVMe M.2 - INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
Original Drive: Toshiba 128GB M.2 SATA III 2280 MLC Internal Solid State Drive THNSNJ128G8NY
Destination Drive: Samsung 950 PRO Series - 256GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V5P256BW)
Process:
1. use WinPE to boot, image the Toshiba drive to external drive
2. shutdown, remove Toshiba drive, install Samsung drive
3. use WinPE to boot, restore image from external drive to Samsung drive
4. reboot, get error screen with following message:
:( Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We'll restart for you
Stop code: INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
The laptop will boot into the Windows Repair options, and I used the Advanced Options command prompt to repair the EFI bootloader following these steps:
http://www.dell.com/support/Article/us/en/4/SLN300987/EN
This has not resolved the issue.
Has anyone else experienced this?
What was your fix?
Thanks.
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unfortunately have to actually "work" with laptop today with my original drive :)
the purpose of booting with the winpe was to image the drive after a clean shutdown, so not sure why the drive would be locked, but this is certainl worth a try.
i'll execute later this evening and report back.
thanks very much for the link.
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I have a feeling the locked drive and booting into safemode may also be the key. I've been working with Acronis for the same issue in my own testing and recently found that when restoring to the same type of drive (SSD to SSD or NVME PCIE to NVME PCIE) there is no issue. However, everytime I try to go from PCIE NVME to SSD, I get the same problem. I too had been trying startup repair (which always said it failed, but would still work). On a hunch of the drive being locked, I booted up into safemode and that went to the login and then I could login. After logging in with safeboot, the lock was no longer on the disk.
I'm waiting for a response to confirm this behavior and/or if it is a bug that can be resolved without needing to go through this process. Also, on my motherobard, I don't have F8 as a boot option, until I get the locked message twice in a row, then I can pick F8 (thanks Gigabyte :( ) so it took me a lot longer to figure this out and find the resolution in my situation.
Let us know if safeboot resolves it for you too!
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Lawrence,
Your drive can become locked for a number of reasons. Most commonly this occurs in Windows when an shutdown is performed with Windows Fast Startup enabled which is the default setting in Windows 8, 8.1, and 10. Fast startup by default occurs when the user selects Shutdown from the power options menu in Windows. Unlike previous Windows versions Shutdown is now a hybrid sleep mode rather than a complete PC shutdown. Once the hybrid sleep mode is initialized Windows locks the drive so that data cannot be written to the drive causing corruption. This fact is in my estimation at root of the issue you have. In order to unlock the drive a Restart of the PC must be performed so that the drive becomes accessible again. The procedure of booting into Safe Mode as outlined in the link I provided does just that. Once on the desktop in Safe Mode selecting Restart from the power options menu does the trick to unlock the drive.
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ha, i definitely wasn't thinking about fastboot, that was certainly the cause.
fastboot has resolved the issue,
thank you Enchantech and Bobbo_3C0X1 for your feedback, i greatly appreciate it.
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Your welcome.
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