When you clone a Windows installation from a SATA drive to a NVMe SSD, you should let it fail to boot and reboot automatically several times in a row, after which it will offer you the menu that gives you the option to boot into safe mode. After Windows has successfully booted into safe mode once, you can reboot and everything will work fine. This is because booting into safe mode forces Windows to re-detect hardware, and it'll notice that the boot volume is on a NVMe device rather than a SATA device.
It's stupid and silly, but that's Windows.
Hello Billy,
I tried it yesterday night.
I let windows 7 fail for several times in the hope to see the option to log in safe mode.
I let it restart at least 20 times, but never give me the option to start safe mode.
Any suggestion ?
The computer can see the new disk installed in place of the original one. At the start on the black screen appears the name of the new SSD 2TB. Then appears the windows 7 logo trying to load win 7, but it stops after a few seconds with the blue screen.
PS: I cloned the partition C (containing win 7pro sp1 x64 and the programs), with Samsuing Data Migration, selecting it as Source, target the new disk (connected externally via USB using theNVMe M2 holder. I did not clone the system partion and the data partition.
Before to do the cloning do i need to do any special setting/formatting ?
Only formatting or also creating a system partion or giving any special settings to the new SSD?
If it shuld be done, can you suggest the best way to do the formatting (which free software tool) and eventually which other settings ?
(To clone I used Samsuing Data Migration since both the old SDD (M2 SATA 512GB) and the new one (Samsung V-Nand 970 EVO PLUS 2TB NVMe) are Samsung)
Thank you in advance.