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M.2 NVMe Cloning

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For those of you who have successfully been able to clone and boot to an M.2 NVMe drive can you say what brand motherboard you are using?

I have been unable to do with with an Asus and I am curious if there is something about the Asus BIOS which is causing an issue or if it is just something with my configuration.

 

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First, is the M.2 drive attached via a port on the motherboard or are you using a PCIe add-in card. The UEFI/BIOS on some older main board do not recognise M.2 drives on PCIe add-in cards as being bootable.

Also, it is unclear if the existing boot drive is an M.2 drive or SATA drive.

So more information would help, including the model of the Asus mother board and UEFI/BIOS version. Are you attempting to clone from within Windows and if so what version are you running (32/64, 7, 7.1, 8, 8.1 or 10; home pro or something else - build number will help). My recollection is that you need to pre-load drivers to get 7.1 to recognise M.2 devices.