Hey guys,
I've tried everything I can find on reddit, this forum and Google so I'm hoping someone here can help.
I have an Asus Z87-A board for which I have flashed the modified bios in order to boot off of m2 ssds. I used macrium reflect to clone my current boot ssd (128gb Samsung 860) to a 1 tb wd sn750. The cloning works as I can see my windows files on the new ssd.
But I cannot get it to boot for the life of me. If I leave my other storage drives in (except my old boot ssd which I remove) when I try to boot I get "os not found". If I remove all storage drives after cloning, I get a couple of "_" and back to bios.
I know that after cloning the new system reserved partition is active. And I've even tried the windows media USB diskpart solutions. The furthest I've gone with those lead me to bcd errors.
I've wasted an entire day trying to figure this out.
Please help!
Edit: Someone online mentioned that it is likely because my boot partition isn't being cloned onto the nvme SSD. So it's likely an MBR/ GPT issue. What would be the procedure to go from MBR to GPT on my cloned SSD and get it to boot? Is it as simple as using the MBR2GPT tool for conversation after cloning?
I've tried everything I can find on reddit, this forum and Google so I'm hoping someone here can help.
I have an Asus Z87-A board for which I have flashed the modified bios in order to boot off of m2 ssds. I used macrium reflect to clone my current boot ssd (128gb Samsung 860) to a 1 tb wd sn750. The cloning works as I can see my windows files on the new ssd.
But I cannot get it to boot for the life of me. If I leave my other storage drives in (except my old boot ssd which I remove) when I try to boot I get "os not found". If I remove all storage drives after cloning, I get a couple of "_" and back to bios.
I know that after cloning the new system reserved partition is active. And I've even tried the windows media USB diskpart solutions. The furthest I've gone with those lead me to bcd errors.
I've wasted an entire day trying to figure this out.
Please help!
Edit: Someone online mentioned that it is likely because my boot partition isn't being cloned onto the nvme SSD. So it's likely an MBR/ GPT issue. What would be the procedure to go from MBR to GPT on my cloned SSD and get it to boot? Is it as simple as using the MBR2GPT tool for conversation after cloning?
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