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Cloning and being identified

mikeike951
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I used Macrium Reflect to clone my boot drive. I'm trying to move it over to my new SSD but I'm not sure what's the issue. I can see and use the drive in Windows. I've cloned it twice to make sure if there were any issues. And only 1 out of 3 times have I been able to see the drive in the BIOS, but have never been able to select it as my boot drive in the boot order. Any ideas what might be the issue? I know most people would say start from scratch, but I don't want to do it. My new SSD is faster. It's an Inland Premium 2 TB. My boot drive is an Intel 660p. Would it even be worth it to switch which drive is my boot? My 660p was too full and really slow. Would it just be better to offload things to the new drive so the 660p is able to get  back to full speed?

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40 minutes ago, mikeike951 said:

I used Macrium Reflect to clone my boot drive. I'm trying to move it over to my new SSD but I'm not sure what's the issue. I can see and use the drive in Windows. I've cloned it twice to make sure if there were any issues. And only 1 out of 3 times have I been able to see the drive in the BIOS, but have never been able to select it as my boot drive in the boot order. Any ideas what might be the issue? I know most people would say start from scratch, but I don't want to do it. My new SSD is faster. It's an Inland Premium 2 TB. My boot drive is an Intel 660p. Would it even be worth it to switch which drive is my boot? My 660p was too full and really slow. Would it just be better to offload things to the new drive so the 660p is able to get  back to full speed?

The 660p is NVME, and really, every SSD is going to perform about the same for daily tasks. You literally will never notice a difference between SATA and nvme SSD's. With that, I would just leave the 660 as boot and offload your games for example to the new drive.

 

With that said, it is still weird you can't seem to select it. I have weird NVME issues though as well, my nvme drive doesn't even show up in BIOS at all, but it boots just fine.

 

Regardless though, I would likely just leave the 660p as boot, just more simple and really won't make a difference. 

 

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Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

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