Unable to boot from new SSD

[Jiraffe2020]

Hello,

I got this Amazon.com: Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Hard Drive, V-NAND Technology... and created clone using Acronis True image.

Then swapped the SSD inside the laptop with new one. 

When I go to the BIOS I see that the new disk shows up under Windows Boot Manager.

But it doesn't boot. The error says no boot device or invalid boot device.

I tried repairing. fixing the MBR etc.

I feel I'm stuck.

Any advice please on how to troubleshoot?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

The product specs for your notebook indicate that it came with a 256 GB Intel SSD.

HP Notebook 15-dy1095od Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support

I believe those are the drives that have built in Optane memory.

I do not believe that you can simply remove and replace the drive.

You have to first disable the Intel Optane memory using the RST software.

Then you have to disable the Intel Optane memory in the BIOS (if your notebook's BIOS has that setting).

Then you can install the standard type SSD.

See the last two sections at the link below for how to do that.

HP PCs - Installing and Using Intel Optane | HP® Customer Support

The other thing I don't know is will a clone work when you are cloning a drive configured for Intel Optane memory?

If it doesn't, then you may have to clean install Windows on the new SSD.

You will have to reinstall the Intel Optane SSD.

[Jiraffe2020]

Thank you. I will try these steps once I get home later in the afternoon and post it here

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome. 

[Jiraffe2020]

I confirm from the Intel Optane Memeory and storage management that it is disabled

[Paul_Tikkanen]

If there is no BIOS setting to disable the Intel Optane, the only suggestion I can offer would be to clean install W11 on the new drive using the media creation tool to make a bootable USB installation flash drive from the link below (2nd option).

Download Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

After W11 has completed installing, you can install the drivers and available software from your notebook's support page.

HP Notebook 15-dy1095od Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Customer Support

[Jiraffe2020]

Finally I was able to boot into the new SSD. Lesson learned, never buy a laptop with Optane in future.

• I've used Intel RST to Disable to Optane.
• There was no setting in BIOS to confirm but the change was made. But I noticed something like non-RAID, which was different from when Optane was enabled, so I figured it must've been disabled
• Then Tried fixing the startup with Windows Repair Disk - Didn't work
• Attached my original (Optane SSD) in Sabrent USB-C enclsore and another USB with bootable Clonezilla. Booted into CloneZilla
• Repeated the disk-clone again with USB-C as source (orig Optane) and inserted SSD as target (the new one)
• Disconnected CloneZilla boot disk and USB-C. 
• Rebooted into new SSD - same error - No bootdevice
• As a last res, wanted to boot into original SSD connected via USB-C and recreate the clone disk
• So, connected Sabrent USB-C with original SSD and booted into that
• In the Disk Management I can see both SSDs. Though, the new Disk showed as Inactive because it had the same signature or something 
• I tried cloning using Acronis (Sabrent) version but it complained about no sabrent device. (Not sure why, because I just booted into an SSD hosted inside the enclosure).
• Anyways, I thought, let me just reboot into Windows 11 recover and re-install fresh. As a last resort, because I wanted to check if the new SSD will boot if there is a fresh Windows install.
• So, reconnected Recovery USB, removed the Sabrent device (orig Optane SSD) and rebooted.
• My intent was to hit Esc so I can change the boot order. But I was late.
• The system simply booted into the new SSD as if nothing wrong happened in the last 2 days
• I went into Disk Management and I can see the new Disk. There is about 1.5 TB of unallocated space.

I have no freaking idea what just happened. I felt like, Windows somehow repaired itself (the boot recs).

I am scared and happy

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Glad you got your new SSD to work.