Cloned SATA drive to Intel 1TB SSD NVMe drive. Intel drive not recognized as boot drive

[Ray325]

Cloned 1TB SATA drive to 1TB Intel SSD NVMe drive using Intel Data Migration tool. Cloning finished with message saying that cloning was successful. Both drives are GPT partioned. Changed boot order to Intel first & also disabled Windows SATA drive. Boot error that there is no system disk.  Also tried cloning to Samsung 500GB SSD NVMe. Samsung software failed, but using Macrium, received message that cloning was successful. 

Thanks for any help, Ray

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

It appears your PC supports M.2 NVME storage. Your product description shows more than one product. I looked at one product. The product I looked at supported NVME storage.

Ray, I would not disable SATA. It looks like the system is not seeing the Intel or Samsung NVME device. So no boot devices can be found.

I have used Macrium to copy or image NVME devices from SATA HDDs or SATA SSDs with zero problems.

Did you disconnect the SATA device prior to booting to the new Intel or Samsung NVME drive? I would do this to reduce complexity.

Try a system restart, tap "ESC" at boot.

Select the Boot Menu to see if the Intel or Samsung NVME drive is on the UEFI boot device list. 

Select this device and see what happens.

Did you check the BIOS, Storage Menu to see if the NVME device is there? 

I don't know what else to tell you. I guess I have been very lucky when copying operating systems to new storage devices.

Regards

[Ray325]

BIOS recognizes all 3 drives. I changed boot order, can tell which drive is being used to boot when I save picture from browser & file saved in DOWNLOADS of 3rd drive, the SATA drive. I tried disabling SATA drive to verify that it is the boot drive & get error message that there is no system drive

[Grzwacz]

Hi Ray,

I don't see why you can't boot to either NVME device.

I would try having, only the Samsung drive installed. See if you can boot to this drive.

I have never worked on your specific HP product number. It should not be an errant BIOS setting. Normally, a typical modern PC will boot to M.2 socket devices without making any changes in the BIOS. The M.2 socket may be set at x2. But the Intel and Samsung drives should be bootable but run slower. 

Maybe another forum member has additional thoughts.

Regards

[Ray325 · Accepted solution]

Good morning Grzwacz,

Problem solved. In the past, I had only done clones with SATA drives, so I would switch the master/slave wiring. Below are the steps I took:

1. Clone SATA to SSD, change BIOS boot order to SSD first (no good)
2. Then power off & disconnect SATA (no good)
3. Clone SATA to SSD, power off & disconnect SATA (Good)
4. Power off & reconnect SATA as storage drive (Good)

In short you have to disconnect SATA before first reboot with new SSD NVMe drive. Thanks for your help