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‎03-09-2021 03:51 AM

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Product: hp envy x360
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

so my hp envy (3mo old) came with a 512GB SSD with 32GB optane. And I want to replace it with another ssd that's bigger.

 

I bought a 2TB ssd external drive, cloned the original drive and  moved the partitions about so I have 1.8TB for c drive. It boots fine from usb. no problems. even boot without the original drive installed (so the issue is not related to the optane memory as far as I can tell).

However when I put the drive into an internal m2 slot (with or without the original ssd in the other slot) it BSOD's with inaccessible boot device error.

The hp utilities identified the drive correctly - it is an M keyed device - as a 1.81TB drive and it passes the short drive function test ( <ESC> boot and F2 )

 

So is this a problem of HP playing silly buggers because its not original HP hardware - I wouldn't put it past them but I doubt it since it boots as an external drive [the drive has SanDISK hardware but identifies itself as Western Digital in the show storage devices option], - OR - is the format of the drive slightly different for the external usb interface? Maybe the usb hardware uses some of the initial blocks for information that doesn't look like a master boot record??? So the actual format isn't the same as the what gets seen through the USB interface?? Maybe the drive is broken by WD so it won't work properly without the USB interface?

 

Is there some way to get the hp envy to boot from a particular m2 device so I can re-clone the original drive without the USB hardware in the way? No matter which slot the new and old drives are in the system BSOD's,

 

 

 

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