Question about Cloning my boot drive

[iLLaGeViDioT]

Hey guys, so I just bought a 1tb 970 Evo NVME SSD and cloned my old 500gb 860 onto it for those sweet sweet read and write speeds.  I used the Samsung proprietary cloning utility to do it.  I'm intending to use the 860 as a faster long-term program/game drive.

 

The cloning itself worked fine, and it booted to windows without the old drive being plugged in and read as the drive it is and the right size as well.

The problem I'm running into now is that when I boot with the 860 plugged in, it reads two drives as an 860 evo, and no matter which I give boot priority it shows the 1tb 970 as offline due to a signature collision.

This is the first time I've ever cloned a drive, so I've been scratching my head for about an hour and I thought I'd find some outside help. Any ideas on how to make sure the NVME drive is what I boot from so I can re-format the 860?  Obviously I can't reformat it if the drive itself is unplugged and I don't have a secondary PC to use either.

[Founders]

Use Partition Master to format the old drive, just be absolutely sure that clone was successful first. 

[Bombastinator]

Choose the boot drive in bios?  That’s how it used to work anyway.

[iLLaGeViDioT]

Booted just fine before I plugged the other SSD in.  I'll probably give it a week with the old drive unplugged just to be safe.  Should I run that and format the drive as it is, cause my concern was that it's booting from the 860 right now and I can't get it to boot from the 970 with the 860 plugged in.

 

*edit*

Bombastinator, that's my problem, with the 860 plugged in it no longer comes up in the BIOS.  It just gives me two 860 selections which both boot from my old drive

[Bombastinator]

16 minutes ago, iLLaGeViDioT said:

Booted just fine before I plugged the other SSD in.  I'll probably give it a week with the old drive unplugged just to be safe.  Should I run that and format the drive as it is, cause my concern was that it's booting from the 860 right now and I can't get it to boot from the 970 with the 860 plugged in.

 

*edit*

Bombastinator, that's my problem, with the 860 plugged in it no longer comes up in the BIOS.  It just gives me two 860 selections which both boot from my old drive

...because they have the same name...  yeah do what @Founders said then.  

[Founders]

12 minutes ago, iLLaGeViDioT said:

Booted just fine before I plugged the other SSD in.  I'll probably give it a week with the old drive unplugged just to be safe.  Should I run that and format the drive as it is, cause my concern was that it's booting from the 860 right now and I can't get it to boot from the 970 with the 860 plugged in.

 

*edit*

Bombastinator, that's my problem, with the 860 plugged in it no longer comes up in the BIOS.  It just gives me two 860 selections which both boot from my old drive

As I said you'll need to format the old SSD outside of Windows using Partition Master unless you have a SATA to USB adapter to run the old drive externally (You'd plug the old drive in after booting from the new one). If you don't already have a USB adapter there's no point in getting one for this purpose, just use the bootable tool. 

[iLLaGeViDioT]

1 hour ago, Founders said:

As I said you'll need to format the old SSD outside of Windows using Partition Master unless you have a SATA to USB adapter to run the old drive externally (You'd plug the old drive in after booting from the new one). If you don't already have a USB adapter there's no point in getting one for this purpose, just use the bootable tool. 

Yeah i jumped the gun on my reply. I looked at the link and realized what you were talking about.

 

Thanks for the help dude, ill do that in a week or so when im certain the clone went well.  So far so good anyway.

[Founders]

3 minutes ago, iLLaGeViDioT said:

Yeah i jumped the gun on my reply. I looked at the link and realized what you were talking about.

 

Thanks for the help dude, ill do that in a week or so when im certain the clone went well.  So far so good anyway.

No problem.