The laptop has a internal SATA port and a internal M.2 port.
Drive 0 is on the SATA port.
When I clean installed Windows on the spare drive, I removed the M.2 that was in drive 0 and only had the one SATA drive in the laptop. After the install, I reinstalled the M.2 in drive 0 to transfer all my personal files, email,etc. I was able to boot to either drive via F12.
I am good now with my original Windows 10 MS upgrade from 8.1 that was on My M.2 MX500 on drive 0 when I started this because before I started this I had cloned it to another ssd ,in case something happened.
After I was finished setting up the Clean Windows install on a spare drive, I installed it in the SATA slot and booted into Crucial with the rescue dvd.
I then started cloning the New clean install on SATA drive to my M.2 on drive 0.
The clone failed and Macrium said to run chkdsk on the SATA drive.
I closed Macrium, rebooted into my current Windows on the M.2 in drive 0.
The boot failed with a fatal error.
I removed the M.2 and tried to boot into the SATA clean install and that also failed with a fatal error. I let windows try to fix it and that failed.
I removed the clean install from SATA slot and installed my original Windows backup, booted into my current Windows and ran DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth and sfc on the clean install drive on usb and they found no problems with it,
I booted into the Windows install dvd,accessed Command Prompt and ran fixmbr, ok, fixboot, permission denied, rebuildbcd, ok. Still had fatal error.
Here is Chrystal Disk info for this drive.
OK, I will do that, but my first post was asking if anyone could help me recover the two drives that have fatal flaws and won't boot. I already had my original Windows 10 recovered.
Quote
