Question Recognising a replacement M.2 SSD ?

[johnrxx99]

Hi, I want to replace my Samsung 550Gb 960 EVO with a 1TB Crutial T500 in my PC. The ssd is used for games only. I have a fast 1TH Samsung for the C drive.

I used Crutial's cutdown Acronis app to clone the drives. I left the existing drive in the PC and put the T500 in an SSK enclosure for the transfer. Before using the app, I formated the drive in disk management and created an unalocated new drive. It was plugged in to a 3.2 USB and the trasfer worked. Both the new and the old showed the same games programmes.

I removed the Evo and installed the T500 and the latter didn't show and can't find it in disk management.

Can someone help me please.

Cheers, John

 

[SkyNetRising]

Show screenshots from
Device Manager - disk drives and storage controllers sections expanded,
Disk Management,
Windows Storage Spaces (Control Panel/Storage Spaces).
(upload to imgur.com and post link).

List specs of your system. Mainly interested in motherboard model name.

 

[dwd999]

Hi, I want to replace my Samsung 550Gb 960 EVO with a 1TB Crutial T500 in my PC. The ssd is used for games only. I have a fast 1TH Samsung for the C drive.

I used Crutial's cutdown Acronis app to clone the drives. I left the existing drive in the PC and put the T500 in an SSK enclosure for the transfer. Before using the app, I formated the drive in disk management and created an unalocated new drive. It was plugged in to a 3.2 USB and the trasfer worked. Both the new and the old showed the same games programmes.

I removed the Evo and installed the T500 and the latter didn't show and can't find it in disk management.

Can someone help me please.

Cheers, John

Try re-cloning it with a better program like Macrium. Also formatting or anything else is not necessary when cloning a drive.

 

[johnrxx99]

Try re-cloning it with a better program like Macrium. Also formatting or anything else is not necessary when cloning a drive.

Try re-cloning it with a better program like Macrium. Also formatting or anything else is not necessary when cloning a drive.

Try re-cloning it with a better program like Macrium. Also formatting or anything else is not necessary when cloning a drive.

I assume a delete the current file on the new T500. Any thought s on why Windows didn't see it?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Any thought s on why Windows didn't see it?

Can you show those requested screenshots?

 

[johnrxx99]

Can you show those requested screenshots?

I don't see the point. I won't show anything other than my information. My MB is a Asus Rog Strx B550-F gaming

 

[SkyNetRising]

I don't see the point. I won't show anything other than my information. My MB is a Asus Rog Strx B550-F gaming

What?! LOL
Do you think, I'm asking for those screenshots just out of boredom?
They are essential for diagnosing such issues.

 

[johnrxx99]

OK. Are the shots with the new ssd mounted, the old one mounted, both with the new one via usb etc?

 

[SkyNetRising]

OK. Are the shots with the new ssd mounted, the old one mounted, both with the new one via usb etc?

Final configuration.
After you have done all cloning and installed new drive in M.2 slot on motherboard.

 

[dwd999]

I assume a delete the current file on the new T500. Any thought s on why Windows didn't see it?

A proper Windows installation consists of 4 partitions; one of them is essential for booting and if your computer's bios does not see that one it will not recognize it as a bootable disk. Perhaps the software you used did not properly clone all 4 partitions correctly. A major problem with Windows is that in order to protect the users from messing things up the Disk Management app does not show all 4 partitions so if one is missing users wouldn't even know it.

 

[johnrxx99]

Sorry about this but after deleting the previously cloned files and recloning, the new M.2 is there in diskmangmt, DOH.

Appologies to all for wasting your time.