Solved replace oem nvme pcie 500gb.

need some help with beelink ser5 ryzen5 5560: i just cloned win 10 and 11 pro from my mbr hdd to a new wd 512gb nvme pcie, i then replaced the oem drive with the one i just cloned but is not being recognized, i cloned using aomei following how to clone hdd to nvme. should i instead clone the oem drive to the new drive? thanks in advance, beelink is running win 11pro 22000.2538.

Sorry, I'm confused.

Presumably the 500GB OEM NVME drive is your boot drive. I'm not sure what the precise configuration would be if a second OS is installed on the HDD for a dual boot. Is that the way the PC is set up? I haven't done a dual boot in many years.

I'm not sure what you best method would be for cloning the OEM M.2 drive. What I would do is image the drive to a backup drive (or the internal HDD, if there's enough space). I would have a rescue USB drive for the imaging software handy. I'd then swap in the new M.2 drive, boot for the USB rescue drive, and restore the image to the new M.2 drive.

Another alternative could be to put the new M.2 drive in an external enclosure or dock, and then do a direct clone. Such enclosures are fairly cheap (in the US, at least), but I'd prefer to have the image regardless.

thanks bobkn, doing a direct clone to the new drive in enclosure right now, will report back in a bit.

If you clone a Legacy-MBR HDD drive to a NVMe drive it will remain as Legacy-MBR.
Some computers, NVMe only boots as UEFI-GPT

Please post a whole window Disk Manager image of ALL your drives. Don't forget to expand the columns so we can read them. How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management
If you have a MiniTool or AOMEI Partition use it instead or Windows disk manager.

@jestrada47

I did this on several computers, none of them went straight boot-up (i.e. when hdd to NVMe SSD image or clone). typically I had to do:

1. repair. tried several times before giving up. If lucky, one of trials could boot up when repairing.
2. re-work clone. I was using MR (Macrium Reflect). It's NOT prefect. Many times, my PC needed its reclone then boot up. i.e. Clone SW could be unreliable.
3. SATA hdd --> SATA SSD --> NVMe SSD. all must use disk-copy clone. it's tedious. but so far, 100% working.

The clone software you used could be unreliable.

The obvious answer is to use different software that is reliable

SIW2 said:

The clone software you used could be unreliable.

The obvious answer is to use different software that is reliable

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If "jestrad47" cloned the wrong drive, it doesn't matter which software was used.

I've never used the Aomei software, but, AFAIK, it's good.

My post was obviously a reponse to the siliconbeaver post immediately before it.

My post #5 was obviously a response to the siliconbeaver post #4

SIW2 said:

My post was obviously a reponse to the siliconbeaver post immediately before it.

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I guess I didn't follow the wandering of the thread.

Thanks,

I hadn't said, my post was referring to Windows 7 OS transfer (Here is Windows 11 forum. )

Windows 10/11 OS transfer just was fine. However I didn't do it often. I am still on Windows 7 train.

SIW2 said:

My post #5 was obviously a response to the siliconbeaver post #4

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