Cloned a boot drive, boot error...

[PDifolco]

I've cloned a Win10 boot NVme (512GB WD SN730) to a bigger 2TB Crucial P3, to increase space on a laptop using a Nvme USB adapter, with AOMEI PA Pro (I have a license key)

Cloning went ok, and I created a new partition for the additional space

But when I install the new drive in the laptop I got a Windows boot error 0xc000000e, that seems to indicate a bad boot sector, but how is this even possible with a cloned disk ?

The laptop posts ok and the drive appears  in BIOS as bootable

I'm lost, some tips ?

 

 

[Sawa Takahashi]

8 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

I've cloned a Win10 boot NVme (512GB WD SN730) to a bigger 2TB Crucial P3,

Where did you purchase that Crucial P3 drive ? Amazon had a very bad problem of fake/bad batch of those drives. I since replaced all of them with some WD blue SN570 for about the same price but increased reliability.

[PDifolco]

1 minute ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

Where did you purchase that Crucial P3 drive ? Amazon had a very bad problem of fake/bad batch of those drives. I since replaced all of them with some WD blue SN570 for about the same price but increased reliability.

On Amazon...

But in France

And the drive seems genuine and ok, I've checked it with CrystalDiskInfo and used it (copying 400GB of files for 30 min) as a data drive...

 

[Sawa Takahashi]

10 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

On Amazon...

But in France

And the drive seems genuine and ok, I've checked it with CrystalDiskInfo and used it (copying 400GB of files for 30 min) as a data drive...

Unfortunately, the drive may still be defective. Did you try booting on the old drive ?

Other possible problems are that maybe the cloned copy was unsuccessful. Or that Windows expect your SSD as boot drive but finds another drive instead and refuses to boot (Secure boot problem ?).

Hope that can help.