Hard Drive Replacement for failing drive

[mikeypark]

Hi Paul: I received the Samsung and was able to clone it. I then attempted to test it and boot to it and I went into the bios and selected a USB drive boot (there are two in my computer (a My Passport and the Cloned Drive) and when booting it came up with a blue screen saying Inaccessible Drive. Do I need to remove the My Passport for this check? Thanks again. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

If the clone was successful, the only suggestion I can offer would be to replace the original 512 GB SSD with the 1 TB Samsung SSD and fire up the PC.

[mikeypark]

Thank again. If it doesn't boot to it as a USB Clone, can I expect it to work if after i install it on the motherboard? 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome. 

I have no idea, but if the clone was successful, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work from the NVMe slot. 

[mikeypark]

Thank you. I'll try that now. At 99% of the cloning, it was getting to 5 seconds and then back to 25 or so and it did that a few times and then it finished successfully. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I think you'll be OK.

You can't always boot a NVMe SSD from a USB port that is fully loaded with Windows and whatnot.

[mikeypark]

Appreciate the reply. 👍

[mikeypark]

Paul: I wanted to express a hearty thanks to you for all of your help and guidance from the beginning. I did replace it today and it worked seamless and started right up. It was a little tricky getting under the optical drive housing and unscrewing out the old drive and getting the new one in that slot which I'm assuming was the correct way to do it. It's my first time doing something in the box. Merry Xmas and Holidays. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime, Michael.

Glad to have been of assistance.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!

Cheers,

Paul