Can I use the Winpe Bootable Aomei media to restore an image to a new ssd drive that has no partition or format.

tsoilihoi · Mar 31, 2024

I am replacing my sata hard drive with an ssd on an hp 590 desktop. I made a good image of the present drive.. so I want to remove that drive, use winpe to restore
the latest image to the new ssd drive. My HP only has one data port, so I have no way to partition or format the new drive. So its going in vanilla. My question is whether aomei winpe bootable media will even see the new ssd drive if it is without a partition or format. Both drives are 1 TB and the new one will be bootable. I have always restored to a disk where it is taken down during the restore but never tried it when the new drive in unpartitioned unformated and unallocated.

Cowboy · Mar 31, 2024

It will see the new SSD as unallocated. Just restore the backup image. Its been a while using Aomei. I use Macrium now.
You haven't filed up the winpe Aomei to take a look?

SIW2 · Apr 1, 2024

Usually, yes.

But if your new machine has 11/12/13/14 gen intel,

read this

HP PCs - No drives can be found during Windows 11 or Windows 10 installation (Intel 11th Generation processors) | HP® Customer Support

No drives can be found because the Media Creation Tool does not provide the storage drivers. Follow these steps to create installation media, locate and install the missing storage drivers, and complete the Windows 11 or Windows 10 installation.

support.hp.com

which means installation media boot.wim or your aomeii bootable wim or any other bootable wim files wont be able to see the disks unless they have the drivers loaded.

Cowboy · Apr 1, 2024

That hp 590 pc, has:
8th Generation Intel® Core™ i5+ 8400 processor

Cowboy · Apr 1, 2024

tsoilihoi said:
I am replacing my sata hard drive with an ssd on an hp 590 desktop. I made a good image of the present drive.. so I want to remove that drive, use winpe to restore
the latest image to the new ssd drive. My HP only has one data port, so I have no way to partition or format the new drive. So its going in vanilla. My question is whether aomei winpe bootable media will even see the new ssd drive if it is without a partition or format. Both drives are 1 TB and the new one will be bootable. I have always restored to a disk where it is taken down during the restore but never tried it when the new drive in unpartitioned unformated and unallocated.

Did you create you winpe using this method: