Cloned drive but how to make it the boot drive?

Slam · 2 Mar 2019 at 07:52

Have successfully cloned the HDD to the nvme SSD using Samsung Magician software.

Set new drive to online. Got a warning about the drive having a signature collision

Rebooted but laptop still booting from old hdd

Boot order in Bios settings just gives one option of Windows Boot Manager

Windows disk manager shows old drive as having the active partition and I can't change this

- what do I need to do?

Just wipe the old HDD? Will windows automatically find the OS install on the nvme drive?

bimbleuk · 2 Mar 2019 at 08:50

UEFi + Win10 have some disk protection schemes that won't like seeing cloned disks so take the old HDD out see if the NVME drive boots. If it doesn't try doing the clone again but remove the original HDD before trying to boot the new drive.

Wipe the old HDD preferably in another system or in a USB caddie so they don't clash again when booting in the same system.

Slam · 2 Mar 2019 at 16:27

thanks!
I took out the old hdd and the pc booted up on the ssd fine.

I then tried to hot swap the hdd in but it wasn't recognised so I've just taken the drive out. will format it in a caddy and then install as a clean drive.

Rannoch · 2 Mar 2019 at 16:28

Try cloning with Macrium Reflect ?

APM · 3 Mar 2019 at 14:28

You don't need to wipe the old drive,just the windows booting info.

drs101 · 4 Mar 2019 at 11:22

I just did this Saturday and found a fresh install of windows vs cloning was much faster, not sure if I messed up the clone but it didnt seem to perform any better, after a fresh install its amazingly fast to boot and running task is noticeably faster, I do have all my games and data on separate drives and only have the os on one dive so that makes it easier.