Clone disk failed to boot.

[BruceUSA]

Hi all.
Cloned my i7 12700k system OS Windows 11 Pro from Samsung 980 pro 1tb NVMe .m2 to Samsung 2TB 990 pro using MiniTool ShadowMaker Pro Ultimate. Remove the old 1tb nvme drive and install the new 2tb nvme drive. Reconnected all cables and press power button to start the PC. It should have booted in to Windows but it boot into the Bios. I look at the bios boot priority I don't see the new nvme drive. What is going on? The fail Clone? Attach is screenshot. Boot Option #1 & #3 .Please give me some pointer here. Thanks

Ah, looking at the device list I do see M2_1 Samsung SSD 99 showing 2000.3GB. . See screenshot

 

[BruceUSA]

I go ahead do a clean install from scratch .

 

[Nebulous]

I know alot of people here have great success using cloner softwares to clone their OS drive. I sure as hell am not one of them. I have no clue why it never works for me, even when I follow the dam simple instructions. I never recommend using them either. I always do a clean install. Takes alot of time reinstalling everything too, but I save myself more headaches.

I feel your pain Bruce.

 

[BruceUSA]

Nebulous, I totally agree with you that many people have sucess but none for us. Install Windows from scratch on NVMe SSD is painless as compare to spining hard drive in the old days. Took about any hour to get most my my apps install and update.

 

[Nebulous]

Nice! Don't get me wrong tho, if these proggies work for them, I ain't knocking it. Wish it worked for us, right?

Yeah, takes me about an hour to reinstall everything too including updates. Then I do a restore point. Helps in a pinch.

 

[MisterEd]

I sometimes have had problems cloning the drives on my desktop computers but not my laptop computers. Cloning always works for with laptop computers.

My laptop had two Samsung 980 1TB M.2 NVME SSDs. Last month I replaced them with two Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 NVME SSDs. I put each new SSD in an external enclosure and cloned the original SSD to it. Once I got done, I opened the laptop and replaced the original SSDs with the new ones. The laptop booted just fine.

BTW, I cloned the SSDs with Acronis True Image (ATI) 2025. Note ATI does something that not all cloning programs do. During the clone process it expanded the main data partitions so that all the space was used. That could have been done manually afterwards but it was nice to have it done automatically.