No Windows Installation found after cloning from HDD to SSD

[ATS117]

My daughter's HP Envy x360 - m6-aq105dx has been running slow and I am fairly certain it's the old HDD. I cloned it to a new SSD, an EVO NVMe M.2 with a little more space.

On Boot it goes to diagnostics and then the Windows Recovery, so it sees a bootable OS. I've tried all the standard BOOTREC /fixes and it doesn't see any Windows installation, but it's booting to Windows recovery... So it sees the OS. 

Pulling the drive sends it to No Bootable Device found

Installing the original HDD works, but I really want to get this functional for my daughter.

I've tried 2 different cloning tools, and I've used both before without issues. There's just something a little different with this one.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

It could be that cloning a SATA disk to a NVMe disk doesn't work because they use totally different drive controllers.

The only suggestion I can offer would be to try clean installing W10 on the NVMe SSD.

Make a bootable USB W10 installation flash drive with the media creation tool from the link below.

Download Windows 10

After W10 has completed installing, you can install the drivers and available software from the notebook's support page.

HP ENVY x360 - m6-aq105dx Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Support

If there is a reason you want the HP OS installation and software that came with the PC, you can also order a USB recovery kit which has the original HP factory image from the  link below:

Computer Surgeons - Windows 10 Home - 64 Recovery Kit Part Number L15421-001 For ENVY x360 Convertib...

[ATS117]

I've got a SATA SSD instead of an NVMe I can try. I've got the clone running now and I'll update in the morning.

Spinning disks are so 1990's...

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes, they are but M.2 SATA SSD's are so mid-2010's.

PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD's are 3x - 5x faster than the fastest SATA SSD on the market.

[ATS117]

Looks like switching from NVMe to SATA connection was the trick. Now she doesn't get a space upgrade, but her system is much speedier.

(Yes I could put the NVMe in as secondary storage, but we'll hold off on that for now.)

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Glad that worked for you.

[ATS117]

The laptop she's using is late 2010's, but it's still functional with only minor fixes. 

- upgraded RAM

- upgraded SATA HDD to SSD 

- cleaned the fan

- replaced the battery twice

As much as I poke fun at HP, they built a solid little notebook with the Envy x360-m6