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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Disco_P · 28 Mar 2017 at 13:25

Nice one