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cloned windows to new drive but no boot option from it..

geekygamer

okay so i just installed a m.2 gen4 on my msi mpg z690 carbon wifi motherboard, i went ahead and clones my windows drive from my ssd to my new m.2 , the drive shows up in windows and bios but i can not select the m.2 drive as a boot as there is no option for it, even if i disconnect my windows drive and try to boot up there is no option to select m.2, can anyone help me?

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You probably need to reconfigure the boot configuration/partition to the new drive.

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Also clone implies you remove the old drive before booting.  you cant have 2 boot drives at the same time at standard configuration at least. 

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13 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Also clone implies you remove the old drive before booting.  you cant have 2 boot drives at the same time at standard configuration at least. 

Yes i have disconnected my old boot drive but still no boot option selection for m.2

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33 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

You probably need to reconfigure the boot configuration/partition to the new drive.

My prior was a 2.5 both are gpt because the boot drive is gpt, raid is not and i use easeus to clone 
So i did clone only the boot partition to new drive so ill try to clone the whole drive this time and see. 

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6 minutes ago, geekygamer said:

So i did clone only the boot partition to new drive so ill try to clone the whole drive this time and see. 

That's the problem imo, you need to clone the efi partition as well or else you need to manually create an efi partition on the new M2 SSD.

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yeah, i always just cloned the whole drive, never an issue,  windows doesn't even seem to notice it.

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2 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

yeah, i always just cloned the whole drive, never an issue,  windows doesn't even seem to notice it.

Yes this did work, but another issue i ran to , so im also cloning my d drive to another m.2 my d drive has all my other files and programs but the problem im encountered is with onedrive cloud sync i cant seem to get some programs to work correctly because i have onecloud synce on, is there a way to run it without cloud sync cus i cant figure it out.. i have over 80gb cloud files to sync and im not trying to wait for that.. lmfao 

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