HP laptop 17-cp0036cl want to boot from m.2 ssd

[Guillermo_Leon]

Hello

I installed a m.2 ssd drive to my laptop and cloned c: hard drive to the new d: drive, after that tried to find the option in BIOS to from the m.2 drive,

Already disabled Secure Boot but there is no Legacy boot option available

I wonder if this laptop is able to boot from m.2 drive

Also upgraded to bios F,25

In Windows d: is accesible

Any suggestion?

Best regards

Guillermo

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, Guillermo:

Here's the problem that normally happens when you install a M.2 SSD when your notebook came with a 2.5" hard drive.

The Windows boot manager will always want to boot from the 2.5" drive first and not the SSD.

Notebooks that come from the factory with dual drive configurations have no operating system on the 2.5" drive and it is used for storage only.

What I recommend you do is to temporarily disconnect the 2.5" drive and the Windows boot manager should automatically switch to the NVMe SSD.

Run the notebook a bit like that.  Make sure everything works right.

Restart it shut it down.

When you are satisfied things are fine you should be able to reconnect the hard drive again.

If the Windows boot manager happens to switch back to the 2.5" drive, you will have to clean the disk to remove all traces of Windows on the drive and then initialize the disk, format it and use it for storage only.

[Guillermo_Leon]

Hello Paul

I did what you suggested but I get a Recovery screen "Your PC needs to be repaired" with error coned 0xc000000e

If I go to Boot settings now I see m2 drive, pressing F1 to enter Recovery Environment, gives me a second screen with the same error code and a message that says the a file is missing or contains errors: winload.efi

Connecting again hard drive I get the same Recovery screen but I am able to enter Recovery Environment and boot from hard drive.

I  guess I have to try again and boot from usb with Windows iso and try to recover from it

Regards

Guillermo

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, Guillermo:

Yes, those errors may be very possible, because you cloned a SATA drive boot structure to a NVMe SSD which uses a totally different drive controller.

It should probably work fine if you clean install Windows.

I never clone drives so I have no experience with cloning SATA to NVMe.

Cheers,

Paul