Clone SATA AHCI SSD to M.2 NVME SSD?

Disco_P · 24 Mar 2017 at 10:30

That is a lot of acronyms.

Windows 10 Pro 64 is currently UEFI installed on a Samsung 830, I just bought a Samsung SM951 drive. Reinstalling windows is kinda easy, reinstalling all my programs and setting everything up again is a massive PITA and I'd much rather just not.

1) Is this recommended? Or will performance and stability suffer noticeably.

2) Can someone recommend a tool for this?

KIA · 24 Mar 2017 at 17:48

Macrium Reflect.

Disco_P · 24 Mar 2017 at 20:44

Tried macrium reflect and it bluescreens when I try to boot from the nvme drive with inaccessible_boot_drive.

Could it be because the source drive is ACHI and the destination is NVMe and there is some sort of incompatibility.

Disco_P · 25 Mar 2017 at 03:41

And now it seems to be working.

I have no idea what is happening anymore.

pc-guy · 25 Mar 2017 at 17:56

out of curiosity, did you notice any performance improvements from 830 to SM951 other than bench results?

Disco_P · 25 Mar 2017 at 18:53

Not really but at the same time this is a proper bodge job windows install. I really should fresh install before giving any definite conclusions.

Maundie · 26 Mar 2017 at 15:11

Disco_P said:
And now it seems to be working.

I have no idea what is happening anymore.

Did you find out what happened (or what you did) as I've just bought a M2 drive and toying with the idea of cloning but think I may just fresh install?

Disco_P · 26 Mar 2017 at 21:39

Maundie said:
Did you find out what happened (or what you did) as I've just bought a M2 drive and toying with the idea of cloning but think I may just fresh install?

Honestly I have no idea. Kept blue screening on boot then I went back to the sata ssd except it didn't and booted from the nvme drive. Reinstalling anyway now which is a lot easier when you can copy program config files and stuff from the sata ssd.

Maundie · 27 Mar 2017 at 07:59

Disco_P said:
Honestly I have no idea. Kept blue screening on boot then I went back to the sata ssd except it didn't and booted from the nvme drive. Reinstalling anyway now which is a lot easier when you can copy program config files and stuff from the sata ssd.

I'm just backing up now as I think a complete re-install is the way forward, just thinking about all the crap I've got to put back on is making me sweat

Disco_P · 27 Mar 2017 at 08:46

Maundie said:
I'm just backing up now as I think a complete re-install is the way forward, just thinking about all the crap I've got to put back on is making me sweat

Yeah, tell me about it. I installed windows on Saturday, drivers and updates yesterday and maybe today I will get around to installing programs.

Maundie · 27 Mar 2017 at 08:47

Hmm having issues, upon booting to Win10 USB the option to partition the M.2 drive was there (created partition get files ready for installation etc.) and then when booting after that with the USB drive removed the BIOS reports no bootable media connected (motherboard is a Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7.

Looking on the Gigabyte website doesn't really help as the BIOS updates don't mention adding updates for M.2 drives

Disco_P · 27 Mar 2017 at 10:13

My only thought is that make sure UEFI is first and that the drive is listed as Windows Boot Manager in the bios.

Maundie · 28 Mar 2017 at 11:09

Disco_P said:
My only thought is that make sure UEFI is first and that the drive is listed as Windows Boot Manager in the bios.

Right come back to this and it's still puzzling me, M.2 drive isn't showing in the BIOS (or Windows Boot Manager) but when I plug both it and my current SSD in the M.2 shows in Windows with all the Windows system folders (as Drive letter D but I know this is irrelevant as I only wanted to make sure it was recognised).

Edit:- Resolved, applied a BIOS update and poof it appeared in BIOS and Windows Boot Manager, currently doing all the crap on Windows 10 now.

Disco_P · 28 Mar 2017 at 13:25

Nice one

Maundie · 28 Mar 2017 at 19:29

Disco_P said:
Nice one

Cheers and sorry for hijacking your thread