Question I can't get my new cloned SSD Drive to boot. Any suggestions?

[Deoge]

I purchased a new 2TB m.2 SSD drive and cloned my existing 128GB m.2 SSD drive. When I switch out the drives, I cannot boot from the new SSD. I have gone into the bios to set the boot order, but the new drive doesn't even show up as an option.

 

[rgd1101]

did you only have the 128gb m.2 drive before or did you also have another hdd/ssd?

did you cloned everything or just the c partition?

 

[USAFRet]

I purchased a new 2TB m.2 SSD drive and cloned my existing 128GB m.2 SSD drive. When I switch out the drives, I cannot boot from the new SSD. I have gone into the bios to set the boot order, but the new drive doesn't even show up as an option.

1. What are all the parts in this system?
2. What tool did you use for the clone process?

 

[Deoge]

did you only have the 128gb m.2 drive before or did you also have another hdd/ssd?

did you cloned everything or just the c partition?

The computer also has a 65gb MMC drive. I cloned the entire 128 gb m.2 SSD drive

 

[USAFRet]

The computer also has a 65gb MMC drive. I cloned the entire 128 gb m.2 SSD drive

Put it back together as it was originally, and post a screencap of the Disk Management window.
(upload your pic to imgur.com, post the link here)

 

[Deoge]

1. What are all the parts in this system?
2. What tool did you use for the clone process?

It's a Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14IGL7. It has a 128gb m.2 ssd drive, a 64gb eMMC drive. I used Macrium Reflect software to clone the drive

 

[Deoge]

The laptop is running on windows 11

 

[Deoge]

Put it back together as it was originally, and post a screencap of the Disk Management window.
(upload your pic to imgur.com, post the link here)

Here is the photo:

http://imgur.com/a/93kr9Ps

View: https://imgur.com/a/93kr9Ps

 

[USAFRet]

Make/model of the 2 M.2 drives?

Secondly, how did you clone from the 128GB to the 2TB?
Presumably, the system has only one M.2 port?

 

[Deoge]

Make/model of the 2 M.2 drives?

Secondly, how did you clone from the 128GB to the 2TB?
Presumably, the system has only one M.2 port?

The original Drive is a FORESEE SATAIII M.2 2280 SSD, the new drive is a TIMETEC SATA III M.2 2280 SSD. I cloned the drive using Macrium Reflect software . Yes the laptop only has one slot.

 

[USAFRet]

The original Drive is a FORESEE SATAIII M.2 2280 SSD, the new drive is a TIMETEC SATA III M.2 2280 SSD. I cloned the drive using Macrium Reflect software . Yes the laptop only has one slot.

Given that it has only one M.2 port....how?
Via an Image? Or something else?

 

[Deoge]

Given that it has only one M.2 port....how?
Via an Image? Or something else?

Oh, I used an external USB enclosure

 

[USAFRet]

Oh, I used an external USB enclosure

That may be an issue of the enclosure.

Thy it with an Image instead.

Since the eMMC drive appeasers to have sufficient space....

1x m.2 slot with an Image

Assuming you have another drive (any type of drive) with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current m.2 drive:

1. Download and install Macrium Reflect
2. Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks". Create this on a small USB flash drive or DVD.
3. In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
4. When done, power OFF.
5. Swap the 2 drives
6. Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
7. Restore (on the toolbar), and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new m.2
8. Go, and wait until it finishes.
9. That's all...this should work.

 

[USAFRet]

Or, since you don't appear to have a whole lot in the C drive, consider just a fresh OS install (and everything else) on the new 2TB.

 

[Deoge]

Or, since you don't appear to have a whole lot in the C drive, consider just a fresh OS install (and everything else) on the new 2TB.

My ultimate goal is to install Linux Mint anyway. Maybe I should just install that on the new SSD? I don't know why I didn't just start with that!

 

[USAFRet]

My ultimate goal is to install Linux Mint anyway. Maybe I should just install that on the new SSD? I don't know why I didn't just start with that!

That also works!

 

[Deoge]

Well I thought that was going to be an easy solution but I was wrong. I cannot get the laptop to recognize the SSD when I swap it with the SSD it came with.

 

[Deoge]

Shouldn't I be able to format the new SSD for Linux, take out the old windows SSD, put in the new one and install linux from a usb drive? When I boot from the usb, it can't find the new SSD drive to install on.

 

[USAFRet]

Shouldn't I be able to format the new SSD for Linux, take out the old windows SSD, put in the new one and install linux from a usb drive? When I boot from the usb, it can't find the new SSD drive to install on.

For a new Linux install, no formatting needed beforehand.
If the system cannot see the SSD, that is a whole different problem.

 

[Deoge]

Well that's my problem unfortunately

 

[USAFRet]

Well that's my problem unfortunately

Then this might indicate a hardware issue.

 

[Deoge]

So I can take out the SSD in my new laptop and put in a brand new SSD unformatted and the system should be able to see it when I boot from a usb flash drive to install linux?

 

[USAFRet]

So I can take out the SSD in my new laptop and put in a brand new SSD unformatted and the system should be able to see it when I boot from a usb flash drive to install linux?

Assuming compatibility and no other hardware issues, probably.