SSD -> External HDD -> NVMe (Cloning Windows 10)

willhub · 17 Nov 2018 at 22:04

Hello,

With this 500GB NVMe Samsung Evo 970, I need to get Windows 10 onto it without having to reinstall everything.

Now I want to somehow move Windows/backup to an external HDD, then restore it onto the NVMe.

The reason doing it this roundabout way is I can't have two M2 slot drives in my PC.

I don't want to use the built in backup software because it want's to also back up my D drive which is huge, I only want the C drive backed up.

Any ideas cheers.

willhub · 17 Nov 2018 at 22:16

Thanks all will give it a whirl. Hope the Evo 970 improved Cities Skyline loading!

willhub · 19 Nov 2018 at 21:36

I backed the drive up but upon restoring the image to the Evo 970 it restart then says pc didn't restart correctly, can't seem to get into windows ?

willhub · 19 Nov 2018 at 21:57

Vargas said:
Did you clone the drives?

I literally backed it all up, on restore it has all partitions as was on old drive

willhub · 19 Nov 2018 at 23:39

I can't set it in bios, I have specified hard disks. I have cloned the drive again and now all I'm getting is no media present

willhub · 20 Nov 2018 at 00:47

I've cloned the whole drive and all partirions to an external drive, then cloned it back onto the NVMe when I put it in, even though it looks identical, when I bootup, it just causes PC to boot again. Sake if I try boot from external HDD. Baffled

willhub · 20 Nov 2018 at 05:00

Weirdly enough I booted into safe mode, then rebooted and it loaded nornally. Installed the NVMe driver from Samsung. Ran HDTune and was sticking at around 1650mbps Is that ok?

Also the drive I took out was scrwed in one end, and was laying on a cushion which I thought was fome, however it's very sticky and fragile almost like chewing gum, not sure if I should have used it with the higher temperatures of the NVMe?