Question Crucial SSD is recognized as Samsung SSD after cloning ?

[archz2]

I cloned my 1TB Samsung Evo 980 SSD, which was installed in my laptop as the only storage device, to a new 2TB Crucial SSD using Macrium Reflect. The new Crucial SSD is functioning well, but in the Device Manager, it is listed as a Samsung Evo. What should I do? I also installed the official driver from Crucial's website but I still face the same issue.

Would 'uninstall device' the SSD from device manager and rebooting the laptop fix the issue? I am worried that doing so would stop my SSD getting detected altogether.

My Windows 11 is up-to-date and no updates are showing up in windows update section.

 

[Lafong]

I'm guessing the laptop does not support 2 internal drives at all. Is that right?

Did you do the Macrium cloning with the Crucial mounted internally? Or externally via a USB cable?

As of right now, is the Crucial the ONLY internal SSD in the machine?

Was your first boot attempt after the clone done with ONLY the Crucial connected?

 

[KingLoki]

Have you updated the Crucial firmware for the drive, seperate to the nvme windows driver?

 

[archz2]

I'm guessing the laptop does not support 2 internal drives at all. Is that right?

Yes. It only supports one SSD. That's it. No more internal storage device is supported.

Did you do the Macrium cloning with the Crucial mounted internally? Or externally via a USB cable?

The Crucial SSD was connected via an external casing with USB.

As of right now, is the Crucial the ONLY internal SSD in the machine?

Yes. The Crucial SSD is the only one inside my laptop. The samsung one is outside now. Not connected at all.

Was your first boot attempt after the clone done with ONLY the Crucial connected?

After the cloning, I shutdown my laptop and replaced Samsung SSD with Crucial SSD.

 

[archz2]

Have you updated the Crucial firmware for the drive, seperate to the nvme windows driver?

I downloaded the SSD driver from here and ran the setup. After then I rebooted my laptop, only to find no change in SSD being detected wrongly.

https://www.crucial.in/support/ssd-support/p3-plus-support

The SSD is performing perfectly fine otherwise.

 

[KingLoki]

If there is a firmware update though it might then change the windows detection of the ssd. Just a thought.

 

[archz2]

If there is a firmware update though it might then change the windows detection of the ssd. Just a thought.

There's only one zip file available on the page whose link I shared above. No further firmware updates are available. Even when I check for updates in device manager, it says that the latest drivers are already installed.

 

[KingLoki]

Oh, no problem. Bit of a wierd one to solve. Windows glitch probs.

 

[boju]

What does bios detect SSD as?

 

[archz2]

What does bios detect SSD as?

It's being recognized as RST CT2000P3PSSD8 which is the model no. of this Crucial SSD.
So the BIOS is detecting it correctly, but not Windows.