Question Macrium Restore from M.2 SATA to M.2 NVME

[wm3797]

I cloned my WD Blue M.2 SATA ssd with Macrium Reflect. Tried to restore it on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus. But it won't work. The system just kept restarting itself. I have researched that restoring from SATA onto a NVME drive works. Please help

 

[wm3797]

Which program?

Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_3.3

 

[USAFRet]

Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_3.3

And that will be included in the clone process.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes, it failed to boot with ONLY the 970 connected. This blue screen pops up afterwards.

Execute following from elevated command prompt. Regular command prompt will give error on last step.
There should not be any errors. If there are, then show screenshot with command output.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 1​

(select 250GB disk)​

list partition​

select partition 2​

(select 100MB EFI system partition)​

assign letter=H​

exit​

bcdboot d:\windows /s H: /f UEFI​

​

After done,

shutdown​

disconnect 250GB drive​

boot from 500GB drive.​

Should load into windows.

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[SebJ]

Redo the clone process.

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specifiy the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
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Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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You sir are an absolute legend. Those instructions worked perfectly for me in to install a new M2 drive as a replacement for my old one. I've spent about 4 hours this evening going through various <Mod Edit> websites and YouTube videos which try to flog me software to do this whilst having no luck whatsoever in getting my new drive to work (via creating images and boot drives and all kinds of things), but the Samsung Data Migration software worked perfectly, super easily, for free too! Marvellous. Thank you so much.