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Looks like marking "Disk 2" as "Online" helped windows detect the boot manager, I'm able to boot into the 970 and see my other drives now! I'm going to proceed with wiping the other drive.

Here is the link as requested, As I opened it again, I noticed that Disk 2 was marked as "offline" I changed it to online and am able to confirm that its the 970. let me reboot and see if I can get into it now. View: https://imgur.com/a/VKnHU7e

Another thing I'm noticing as I'm booted into the old drive when looking into the disk manager, the M.2 doesn't show up as any active partitions, it's only showing my original drive and my backup HDD. any thoughts on this?

Did everything as instructed, was able to boot into the new drive twice, then reconnected my older drives, still running into the same issue. Other notable items, when the original drive is plugged in with the newly imaged M.2, in my bios, the boot manager lists the old drive as "Windows Boot...

Ill give this a shot and report back. thanks again for all the suggestions so far.

Asus Z270 AR, old - Samsung 850 evo, new - Samsung 970 Evo

Yeah, I've seen something similar to your response, I wondered that too, I've used this utility in the past and had no issues what so ever, but the problem lies in that once I plug the new drive back in to manage it, it will revert the bios changes and boot orders that I have created. I have...

The original drive is a Samsung 850 Evo, I used Samsungs Data Migration Tool to "copy" that image of the drive, new drive is a Samsung 970 evo.

Hello Toms Hardware! as the title suggests I am having difficulty booting into my new SSD. I recently purchased a new NVME SSD. I wanted to migrate my current OS and some storage to my new drive. Both drives are Samsung. I downloaded the Samsung data migration utility and proceeded to run it as...

Hello All, I recently upgraded my AIO and was previously getting over 300-400 fps stable while gaming. But since I replaced my cooler, my fps won't go higher than 200 fps. I have made numerous changes to the launch options, cfg files, video.txt, console commands, Nvidia control panel...

Hello All! A little backstory to provide context. I live in a four-story row home that has plaster walls. My mother works from home and has our main router setup in her office on the fourth floor. I currently live on the third floor and am using a tethered wifi connection via Orbi's to use the...

Hello All, I recently upgraded my CPU cooler to an NZXT Kraken X62. Previously I was using a Raijintek AIO cooler and wanted something a little nicer. Before the upgrade, I was averaging 300-400 fps in CS:GO. After the new install, I'm averaging 100-150fps, with lots of stuttering. Keeping...

MERGED QUESTION Question from austino311 : "Windows 10 Update Issues" To preface; Had Windows 8 on an HDD, bought a fancy new SSD, used the SSD's partition wizard (Samsung) to copy/move my OS and all files to the SSD. OS is now on the SSD. Fast forward a few months, Windows 10 is released...

To preface; Had Windows 8 on an HDD, bought a fancy new SSD, used the SSD's partition wizard (Samsung) to copy/move my OS and all files to the SSD. OS is now on the SSD. Fast forward a few months, Windows 10 is released. Upgrade windows 8 to 10, was running into issues then "couldn't apply...