Cloning SATA to M.2

[mbonadio]

Hi all,

Hope this isn't wrong forum, or answered and I just missed it..

Trying to migrate from my old Samsung 840 128GB SSD to my new 850 500GB M.2 drive last night. Using Samsung data migration tool was able to clone it and partitions and everything look good. Both drives appear in BIOS, but I cannot boot to the M.2 if selected. Original SATA drive works fine.

Any suggestions on what I need to do next? Should I run repair tool on the new SSD's partitions, remove the old SSD, etc... Trying to be cautious for the moment in case I have to fail back. But thought this would be fairly straight forward. So I must be overlooking some small detail.

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[weberdarren97]

If you simply clone the entire drive, the boot partition comes with it, which is likely still pointing to the old SSD... Someone like Tradesman1 can help you with this, I'll message him for you.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi all,

Hope this isn't wrong forum, or answered and I just missed it..

Trying to migrate from my old Samsung 840 128GB SSD to my new 850 500GB M.2 drive last night. Using Samsung data migration tool was able to clone it and partitions and everything look good. Both drives appear in BIOS, but I cannot boot to the M.2 if selected. Original SATA drive works fine.

Any suggestions on what I need to do next? Should I run repair tool on the new SSD's partitions, remove the old SSD, etc... Trying to be cautious for the moment in case I have to fail back. But thought this would be fairly straight forward. So I must be overlooking some small detail.

Thanks in advance!!!

After the clone operation, the first thing you do is power off, and remove the old drive.
Power up, check the boot order and modify as needed to point to the new drive.
Continue the power up

Only reconnect the old drive after a couple of reboots with the new drive.

 

[mbonadio]

Ok so moving this along and making progress.. Removing the old drive seems to have allowed me to boot to the new 850.

New issue - Performance is terrible though. Not happy with that given that the M.2 is motherboard mounted.... Should get at least same levels or better -- however sequential reads and writes only in the low 400 and random reads and writes way off in the 12-20k range. My old 840 smoked this. Firmware is latest version. Anything thoughts on this. Anything in the MSI Gaming 6 MOBO settings that would cause such a constraint?

 

[USAFRet]

Ok so moving this along and making progress.. Removing the old drive seems to have allowed me to boot to the new 850.

New issue - Performance is terrible though. Not happy with that given that the M.2 is motherboard mounted.... Should get at least same levels or better -- however sequential reads and writes only in the low 400 and random reads and writes way off in the 12-20k range. My old 840 smoked this. Firmware is latest version. Anything thoughts on this. Anything in the MSI Gaming 6 MOBO settings that would cause such a constraint?

What does the Samsung Magician say?

 

[mbonadio]

Magician is where I am getting the benchmark data from... Everything else looks perfectly fine in there.

[ What does the Samsung Magician say?