M.2 Clone Assistance


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 10
       #1

    M.2 Clone Assistance


    Hi All,



    I'm wondering if you could please assist me...



    I have a HP Laptop with an M.2 drive that won't boot and apparently the drive has an imminent failure.

    I tried cloning the original M.2 drive to a new M.2 NVME drive, both through external M.2 drive to USB enclosures on another laptop, which seemed to work fine.

    But now after replacing the new M.2 drive, the laptop doesn't recognise the new drive and won't boot.


    Laptop: HP (Model# 15-db0020AU)

    Clone Software used: Macrium Reflect

    New Drive: Netac NVME M.2 SSD PCIe Gen3x4 2280



    Can you please help?



    Many Thanks in advance.

    Regards,

    some1youdontkno.
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 42,735
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #2

    Hi, if you care to search tenforums there are numerous threads on getting cloned drives to boot. Please start by reviewing those starting with solved threads.

    Given the original drive was failing, how certain are you that what you have on your new drive is a valid and uncorrupted copy of your O/S, programs and data?
      My Computers


  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I have searched and read as many related threads as possible but cannot find a solution to my issue.

    The cloned drive seems ok...
    OS: Not 100% sure, Programs: Also not sure, Data: Have checked most of it and is good.
    But another problem is that even when I try to clean install Windows onto the replacement drive, it says no drive connected.
    As I can always re-install windows and move files over to the new drive, minus programs which I'm not worried about, but that doesn't seem to work either.
    It is seated properly, tried several times.
    The laptop just doesn't seem to recognise the replacement drive at all no matter what settings I adjust.
    Maybe my BIOS isn't capable of booting from an NVMe PCIe Drive?
    I'm really not sure, I can't find any answers with compatibility, but as far as I can see it should.

    Original drive: M.2 SATA 128GB (Samsung MZ-NLN128C) FAULTY - Imminent failure...
    Replacement drive: M.2 NVMe PCIe 256GB (Netac Gen3.0x4 NVME1.4 2280)

    Please help!
      My Computer


  4. Posts : 16,784
    Windows 10 Home x64 Version 22H2 Build 19045.4170
       #4

    some1youdontkno said:
    Original drive: M.2 SATA 128GB (Samsung MZ-NLN128C) FAULTY - Imminent failure...
    Replacement drive: M.2 NVMe PCIe 256GB (Netac Gen3.0x4 NVME1.4 2280)

    M.2 connections are either SATA or NVME. If yours was designed to work with M.2 SATA disks then that's what you need to replace the old disk with.


    Best of luck,
    Denis
      My Computer


  5. Posts : 4,511
    several
       #5

    This site claims it can work with nvme
    There are a lot of confusingly similar models
      My Computer


 

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