Upgrading the C drive

[mrmojo121]

So I wanted to upgrade the small C drive. So I bought a new one which I believe is compatible. WD black sn770 nvme m.2 ssd….I also bought a ineo m.2 enclosure. I cloned the original ssd, while still in the pc, to the new one via type c usb in the enclosure, using aomei….seems like it went fine but it won’t boot. From the usb or  internally. I noticed when checking the new disk it doesn’t say ‘boot’, or ‘crash’ in the drive description and doesn’t have the wee blue windows icon above it. Also the original disk won’t boot while in the enclosure either, so I don’t know if it didn’t clone properly, if the enclosure thing is working correctly, if my usbs are working properly, I did a bunch of checks and says all devices ‘are’ working properly.

stumped and need help,

thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Your PC's Sunflower motherboard supports NVMe SSDs so that isn't the problem.

You may want to try installing Windows directly on the SSD and see if that works.

You can either use the HP cloud recovery tool for that, which you can use with another PC running W7 64 bit or newer and a 32 GB USB flash drive to create a bootable USB recovery drive that will reinstall W10, the drivers and the software that originally came with your notebook.

Here is an info link for how to use the utility...

HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool (Windows 10, 7) | HP® Customer Support

After you create the recovery media, I recommend you temporarily disconnect the hard drive if you don't get an option with the cloud recovery tool to select which drive you want to use the media on.  Otherwise, it will install on the hard drive and not the SSD.

Or you can clean install W10 by making bootable installation media with the Media creation tool from the link below.

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

There is one thing you should know (if you don't already), the Sunflower motherboard's M.2 slot is PCIe 3x2, which means your SSD is going to run at half of its maximum advertised speeds.

That's still much better than a SATA SSD would provide.

[mrmojo121]

Thanks for your quick reply, but I’m not running W7 or have a notebook….

Also, if I directly installed the OS to the SSD, wouldn’t it be wiped when cloning the old SSD?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Sorry I posted notebook.  I know you have a desktop PC.

You need a PC running W7 or newer to create the cloud recovery media, is what I posted.

I am also aware that you are running W10, and if your PC is still operational with the mechanical hard drive installed, you can use the cloud recovery tool on your PC.

Yes, if you use the recovery drive or clean install W10, anything you cloned to the SSD would be wiped.

But isn't starting from scratch with either of the methods I suggested, and seeing if you can get Windows to work on the SSD better than where you are now?

[mrmojo121]

It would be good to start from scratch, infact I would prefer that….but there’s nothing wrong with the PC, it’s in great working order….and TBH it’s been this way for a while, I just use the D drive for games, pics n stuff.
But, the C drive is pretty low, only 12g or something free, and so that’s the reason ahm doing this, so I would like to clone the whole drive the way it is….and I don’t know why it’s not cloning the boot portion.

I do appreciate your help and suggestions….