- Jul 7, 2023
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I am upgrading from a Western Digital M.2 SATA SSD to a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD.
I have discovered that I cannot clone my system image due to the differing sector sizes between the drives. Samsung says their Data Migration software can do it, but it has not worked for me on two separate computers. Everything else on my PC can detect both SSDs except for Samsung's Data Migration program, it just says "Please connect a Samsung SSD".
I gave up with this system cloning stuff and decided I'd just install Windows fresh when I upgrade my PC. I have tried a USB with Windows 10 installation software, and a DVD as well. Windows seems to install fine (its files are visible in File Explorer) but it doesn't boot. It just flashes a blinking white cursor forever.
In an attempt to follow heaps of tutorials and forum guides on this issue and many other ways to attempt this, I ended up corrupting my original SATA SSD, which cannot boot since it is missing "winload.efi". Nothing was able to fix this either, and I can't access anything in the blue screen options menu because I need to sign in for everything, and it doesn't recognise my Microsoft password as correct.
If I could fix both issues, that would be great. But first and foremost, I just want to boot Windows 10 off of my new Samsung SSD. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.
Not sure if system specs are relevant since I've tried on two separate computers and it has the same blinking cursor issue.
I have discovered that I cannot clone my system image due to the differing sector sizes between the drives. Samsung says their Data Migration software can do it, but it has not worked for me on two separate computers. Everything else on my PC can detect both SSDs except for Samsung's Data Migration program, it just says "Please connect a Samsung SSD".
I gave up with this system cloning stuff and decided I'd just install Windows fresh when I upgrade my PC. I have tried a USB with Windows 10 installation software, and a DVD as well. Windows seems to install fine (its files are visible in File Explorer) but it doesn't boot. It just flashes a blinking white cursor forever.
In an attempt to follow heaps of tutorials and forum guides on this issue and many other ways to attempt this, I ended up corrupting my original SATA SSD, which cannot boot since it is missing "winload.efi". Nothing was able to fix this either, and I can't access anything in the blue screen options menu because I need to sign in for everything, and it doesn't recognise my Microsoft password as correct.
If I could fix both issues, that would be great. But first and foremost, I just want to boot Windows 10 off of my new Samsung SSD. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.
Not sure if system specs are relevant since I've tried on two separate computers and it has the same blinking cursor issue.
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