[SOLVED] Weird things happening with my new SSD

[lowanon99]

Hi all,

I have just bought a Samsung 256GB 860 EVO as a new boot drive, by cloning my old HDD. Not going well

1. At disk management it somehow showed as 2 seperate disk, with both around 230GB
2. Try cloning the HDD at Samsung Data Migration and the 860 EVO is detected with a volume of zero
3. Then I gave up cloning and try to do a clean uninstall, and the computer is somehow stuck in a reboot loop (i.e. Upon running through the installation setup I get all the way to 'Finishing Up' at which point the computer says that it requires a reboot in order to complete installation of Windows. Following the reboot, the initial installation menu opens up again (where you select language, time, etc...) )

Is this a driver problem? Has anyone experienced this before?

On a separate note, the drive is also shown as having 4096 bytes sector size, is this normal?

Driving me nuts right now so any insights will help immensely

 

[CountMike]

Hi all,

I have just bought a Samsung 256GB 860 EVO as a new boot drive, by cloning my old HDD. Not going well

1. At disk management it somehow showed as 2 seperate disk, with both around 230GB
2. Try cloning the HDD at Samsung Data Migration and the 860 EVO is detected with a volume of zero
3. Then I gave up cloning and try to do a clean uninstall, and the computer is somehow stuck in a reboot loop (i.e. Upon running through the installation setup I get all the way to 'Finishing Up' at which point the computer says that it requires a reboot in order to complete installation of Windows. Following the reboot, the initial installation menu opens up again (where you select language, time, etc...) )

Is this a driver problem? Has anyone experienced this before?

On a separate note, the drive is also shown as having 4096 bytes sector size, is this normal?

Driving me nuts right now so any insights will help immensely

Which MB and OS ? NVME M.2 drives need to be run in UEFI mode and if W7, is not really good with them and need to inject Samsung driver first.

 

[lowanon99]

Which MB and OS ? NVME M.2 drives need to be run in UEFI mode and if W7, is not really good with them and need to inject Samsung driver first.

It's 2.5 SATA and it is W10. That's why it's so puzzling.

 

[USAFRet]

Screncap of your Disk Management window, please.

 

[lowanon99]

Of course - here you go. The SDD volume has become disk 2 and 3.

 

[USAFRet]

I meant actual Disk Management, not Minitool.

edit:
Ahh.....and you're working with "Storage Spaces". That can have a major impact on the clone operation.

How many physical drives are in this?

 

[lowanon99]

There are just two, disk 0 is the system HDD. But the 250 GB SSD is shown as two physical drives.

 

[USAFRet]

Make a full backup of all data in this system.

Then, undo the Storage Spaces:

Delete Storage Space from Storage Pool in Windows 10

You can remove a Storage Space for the existing Storage Pool in Windows 10. You can use either the Control Panel or PowerShell to delete it.

winaero.com

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/83837-delete-storage-space-storage-pool-windows-10-a.html

 

[lowanon99]

It works with deleting the other disk space . Thank you.

Still unable to perform cloning though. Checked that the SSD is 4K for logical sector size. My old HDD is 512 bytes and therefore incompatible. Does anyone know of a way to change the logical sector size in the SSD?

It is definitely not the problem of the USB cable as I connect the SSD to the motherboard directly, not through USB.

Thanks in advance.

 

[USAFRet]

It works with deleting the other disk space . Thank you.

Still unable to perform cloning though. Checked that the SSD is 4K for logical sector size. My old HDD is 512 bytes and therefore incompatible. Does anyone know of a way to change the logical sector size in the SSD?

It is definitely not the problem of the USB cable as I connect the SSD to the motherboard directly, not through USB.

Thanks in advance.

I believe an SSD will pretty much require 4k sectors. 512 is a holdover from long ago.

Cloning is great, when conditions are perfect. When they are not, as is the case here, time to bypass that route and just consider a clean install on the new drive.

 

[lowanon99]

But I thought they would still have 512e? Just curious.