NVMe Clone Help!

AndyG1001

AndyG1001

AndyG1001

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Hi all,

I don't know if someone can help, and apologies if I am posting in the wrong place, but thought I would throw this question out there as I think it's a really easy fix....I just can't work out where I've gone wrong!

I have cloned my existing NVMe M.2 SSD drive using Macrium to my new Samsung drive and expanded the main partition to create the useable space (which was the reason for the upgrade)
All was completed successfully however when I fit the unit and boot up, it fails saying that the copy of windows needs to be fixed.
I booted up the factory restore partition thinking that perhaps when freeing up the useable space on the partition it may have messed up some critical data so carried out the restore which was done successfully, however I still get the same error when trying to boot up.
I have since reinstalled the original drive which works with no issue so I am a little puzzled as to what I have done wrong also note that the drive shows fine in windows when plugged in via USB hard drive case.

I'm obviously missing something here and as I'm not overly familiar with NVMe wondered if anyone had any suggestions at all?
I apprecaite any help anyone is willing to give.

Specs as follows:
Existing NVMe: liteon ca3-8d512
New drive:Samsung SSD 970 Evo Plus 1TB ‎(MZ-V7S1T0)‎
Laptop: Razer:
Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model 2019 (15.6 Inch Full-HD Display) Gaming Notebook (Intel Core i7-9750H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

All the best,
 
Wont samsungs own software clone the old to the new drive?

Try a different software see if that cures it
 
Hi Wazza,

Thanks for the reply, well that was what I thought initialy however the samsung software doesn't see the drive which was a bit odd.
I did wonder if it was because the I was using a 3rd party NVMe usb case?
 
I just think that cloning to/from usb is messing it up somehow,not sure

U tried a startup repair? I cant think of anything else
 
Boot off a Macrium Rescue stick, then once in the Windows PE environment choose to fix windows from the options at the top.

This should sort it.
 
As said the macrium PE has a great fix boot tool
When cloning with macrium there's an option regarding the MBR/boot record
Or before restarting pc use easybcd to sort out the boot menu
Or use windows repair option from disc/USB pick command prompt option and use bootrec fixmbr commands... Like bootrec rebuild bcd etc
 
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