no boot
I used TrueImage successfully before but this time it didn't work. I hope someone can tell me what is going wrong.
I have a dell XPS8940 (nov2020). The OS is pre-installed in a KIOXIA 250GB M.2 nvme drive, which is a bit slow and small. I added a 1T Sabrent Rocket Q, placed it in a 1x PCie nvme adapter as a basic disk. More recently bought a 1T Sabrent Rocket 4, with the intention to move the OS to the Rocket4 and replace the KIOXIA. So i placed the Rocket4 in a 4x PCie nvme adapter as basic disk. I downloaded TrueImage from the Sabrent website (build 38260). And do a Clone Disk, choose top option 'to replace a OS disk', cloning the KIOXIA with the OS to the new Rocket4. All goes well, and when its done i turn off the pc, remove the KIOXIA, switch the Rocket 4 into the M.2 slot previously held by the KIOXIA, and switch on the pc. The pc did not boot. Dell goes into panic mode, providing several options, all of which dont help anything. I switch the Rocket4 back into the 4xPCIe adapter, and place the KIOXIA back into its original M.2 slot. Start the pc, and it does boot. All appears as before. The Rocket4 appears to have indeed a copy of the KIOXIA on it. But the Rocket Q is no longer available ! According to Windows Disk Management it is now a Dynamic drive and is Invalid ! I tried to access it but i would have to 'add a new disk' which would wipe the entire disk.
So 2 thinks going wrong, 1) The Clone disk didn't create a bootable clone , and 2) a basic disk was converted to a dynamic disk.
I would appreciate any help !
Regards
Martin


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Martin,
You need to refer to your owners manual and look for How to set Boot Options. Once you find out how to do that then replace the KIOXIA druve with the Rocket 4 drive, go to the Boot Options as you found in the owners manual and make sure that the Rocket 4 is set to boot correctly in the Boot Options list.
For systems booting in UEFI mode the Boot Option needs to be set as "Windows Boot Manager" For MBR Legacy mode the Rocket 4 disk itself needs to be set as the boot option.
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thanks for the suggestions. i tried everything, but nothing worked. eg i switched the RocketQ and the Rocket4, to RQ in x4 adapter and R4 in x1 adapter. Windows pretends that nothing has changed. i even tried uninstalling TrueImagine and installing an older version (build 24000). But that also failed in the same way.
I now suspect that something pre-installed by Dell prevents booting from another drive. I will contact Dell and perhaps they have some suggestions.
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Well. i got everything back as from the start. So decided to try again. This time with build 24000. KIOXIA as source, Rocket4 as Target, lets go ! TrueImage says that to continue the computer needs to restart. ok restart. Computer reboots into a a TrueImage process (not windows). After a while it complains that some of the devices are not yet online, and asks if i want to wait. I say ok, but a little later it asks again. Then i offers to option to cancel or continue anyway. I choose continue anyway. few seconds later the system crashes terribly. Restarts and boots into a system recovery. It cant find Windows Boot Manager anymore, it also wont boot from the KIOXIA drive anymore. So it looks like i am totally f*cked. Hopefullly i can get my data of the KIOXIA somehow, and perhaps do a clean install. But no TrueImage for me anymore.
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Martin,
Sorry to hear of your failed attempt. By your description it is apparent that your attempts to Clone were done from within the Windows GUI. Cloning is best performed when the PC is booted into Recovery Media so as not to present the issues you experienced.
It is likely that the reboot of the machine caused the loading of the Linux based TI app and that likely was booted in MBR Legacy mode. After the crash your PC is likely set to boot from one of the disk drives in the PC rather than Windows Boot Manager. In your system bios you should be able to restore the correct boot device by setting Windows Boot Manager as the first boot device listed in the Boot Order section of the bios.
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