Question Why will my new m2 SSD not be recognized as a EFI on BIOS and instead is recognized as a SATA HDD on Legacy mode?

[Yobro0]

I have a Lenovo Legion Y540-15IRH and I cloned the installed ssd to an external HDD using Macroum Reflect (paid home version), I also created the restore bootable usb drive to get into the macron software to try to restore the cloned external HDD to the new internal NVME SSD I installed onto my laptop (Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 NVme M2)

However, that newly installed drive is not showing up on the list on the macrium software. I tried fixing booting issues and was going to attempt the Redpeloy Image to new hardware option, but wasn’t sure how to go about it. I also noticed that on my laptop’s BIOS settings, the nvme ssd is recognized on the “information” tab, but not as a bootable device. Only when I switch to Legacy mode is the drive recognized as a SATA HDD.

I thought this would be a simple process to restore the cloned external drive to the newly installed ssd, I would appreciate any help.

 

[Colif]

it wouldn't show as bootable if there is nothing on it yet.

it shouldn't show as sata though, thats just odd. Some m.2 drives are sata but not that one - https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-p3-plus-ssd-nvme

I can't find any results for the laptop reporting nvme as sata or that drive doing it.

Look in BIOS and see if you have RAID enabled. Disable it if it is. That could be one reason. But if its enabled, did you only have one drive in laptop?

 

[Yobro0]

it wouldn't show as bootable if there is nothing on it yet.

it shouldn't show as sata though, thats just odd. Some m.2 drives are sata but not that one - https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-p3-plus-ssd-nvme

I can't find any results for the laptop reporting nvme as sata or that drive doing it.

Look in BIOS and see if you have RAID enabled. Disable it if it is. That could be one reason. But if its enabled, did you only have one drive in laptop?

I had one drive only in laptop, original Samsung ssd. I cloned it to external usb hdd and followed the appropriate steps, but macrium only recognizes it as drive 0000, and can’t even see the space on it or format (from within usb rescue media)

 

[Yobro0]

it wouldn't show as bootable if there is nothing on it yet.

it shouldn't show as sata though, thats just odd. Some m.2 drives are sata but not that one - https://www.crucial.com/products/ssd/crucial-p3-plus-ssd-nvme

I can't find any results for the laptop reporting nvme as sata or that drive doing it.

Look in BIOS and see if you have RAID enabled. Disable it if it is. That could be one reason. But if it’s enabled, did you only have one drive in laptop?

I was able to format the new drive and macrium finally recognizes it, but it only has the 200mb of FAT32, the 1.82TB of free space is grayed out and not recognized

 

[Colif]

1.82tb is the normal size a 2tb drive is after formatting, so strange its the space thats missing...

if its blank it shouldn't have any fat32 partition on it.

I would wipe drive and see what it shows as after
Boot from installer

On screen after language choice, pick repair pc, not install

Pick troubleshoot

Pick advanced

Pick Command Prompt

Type diskpart and press enter

Type list disk and press enter

This will show the list of drives currently attached to PC, make note of the drive number of the drive you want to wipe

If Disk 1 is the drive you want to clear, type select 1) and press enter. A message will confirm it is selected

Warning: Diskpart Erase/Clean will permanently erase/destroy all data on the selected drive. Please be certain that you are erasing the correct disk.

Once you sure its right disk, type Clean and press enter

The Command Prompt window will display the message "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk". Close out of the Command Prompt window by clicking the red X in the upper right hand corner.

I assume this is a 64bit version of windows. Windows 10 or 11?

 

[Yobro0]

1.82tb is the normal size a 2tb drive is after formatting, so strange its the space thats missing...

if its blank it shouldn't have any fat32 partition on it.

I would wipe drive and see what it shows as after
Boot from installer

On screen after language choice, pick repair pc, not install

Pick troubleshoot

Pick advanced

Pick Command Prompt

Type diskpart and press enter

Type list disk and press enter

This will show the list of drives currently attached to PC, make note of the drive number of the drive you want to wipe

If Disk 1 is the drive you want to clear, type select 1) and press enter. A message will confirm it is selected

Warning: Diskpart Erase/Clean will permanently erase/destroy all data on the selected drive. Please be certain that you are erasing the correct disk.

Once you sure its right disk, type Clean and press enter

The Command Prompt window will display the message "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk". Close out of the Command Prompt window by clicking the red X in the upper right hand corner.

I assume this is a 64bit version of windows. Windows 10 or 11?

Thank you for continued assistance. This is for windows 10. I was able to clean up the drive and format it in a way to show on macrium. Now I’m following someone else’s advice as well and I’m trying to open up that I allocated space. I’m trying to create partition primary size now, but not sure which number to write down for the 1.82TB

 

[Yobro0]

Thank you for continued assistance. This is for windows 10. I was able to clean up the drive and format it in a way to show on macrium. Now I’m following someone else’s advice as well and I’m trying to open up that I allocated space. I’m trying to create partition primary size now, but not sure which number to write down for the 1.82TB

64 bit