Question New cloned m2 drive not booting

[jman19]

I'll try to give as much detail as possible. I have a dell optiplex 5060 that I wanted to clone a new hard drive to. Currently has an hhd Seagate. So I bought a crucial m2 p3 ssd same gigabyte. I placed this card in my M2 slot. Cloned my Seagate to the M2 ssd. I changed my boot order in Dell bios to the sdd however it still boots from the hard drive original Seagate. I unplugged the original hard drive and the computer will not boot from the M2 it does a blue screen. Not sure what else to do any suggestions?

 

[USAFRet]

Does the system still boot with only the original drive connected?

If so, redo the clone.
At the end of the process, physically disconnect the old HDD. Not just change the BIOS boot order, physical disconnection.
Then try to boot up from only the new drive.


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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 Magician (which includes Data Migration), if a Samsung target SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to 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

Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected.
If not, we have to fix that first.

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 specify 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

(swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part)
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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[USAFRet]

Also, are you 100% sure your system can boot from an NVMe drive?

 

[jman19]

Also, are you 100% sure your system can boot from an NVMe drive

Yes I am still using the computer booting fine on the old drive. New drive has all the files on it so looks like the clone was successfully. I'll reclone like you said shutdown and unplug the old hdd. Will report back to you later. If this doesn't work do you think I should just try a regular sata ssd instead? Thanks so much

 

[USAFRet]

If this doesn't work do you think I should just try a regular sata ssd instead? Thanks so much

Not knowing the other details of this system, that may be worth a try.