Windows 10: Not able to see internal drives after new M.2 replacement and windows reinstall

Hi My system:AMD Ryzen 9 5950XAsus PRO WS X570-ACE MotherboardCorsair H100x CPU Cooler2TB Samsung 990PRO M.2 PCIe new2x PNY RTX A50002x 1TB Ssung 860 PRO 2.5 SSD SATA2x 4TB Seagate IronWolf Pro 3.5My m.2 drive failed on my PC so I replaced it with a new one. I had difficulties installing windows 10 from a USB boot disk but now its on and its seems stable. I couldn't install windows 11 from either a boot USB, assistant its available in the updates section of windows 10 but I have not tried it yet as I cant have any more issues as I am in the middle of a clients project.Anyway I

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replacing C: with larger M.2 NVme drive and move programs installed on D: to the new M.2 drive

I have a DELL Desktop Computer XPS XPS8920-7581SLV-PUS Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700 desktop running Windows 10 Pro with the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 NVme drive as the C: drive and a 1TB hard disk as the D: drive. I have installed a couple of games and applications to the D: drive due to the size of the install files.

I am now planning to replace the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 drive with a Samsung 500 GB 970 EVO M.2 NVme drive.

The procedure I plan to use is to:

• clone the Toshiba drive to a new Western Digital SSD installed in a hard disk bay
  
• replace the Toshiba with the Samsung
  
• clone the new SSD back to the Samsung
  

At that point I should have a bootable C: on the Samsung NVme drive.

The next step would be to move the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk to the Samsung NVme drive since I now have the space for them.

However it is not really possible to just move installed applications due to all the Registry changes that would be needed.

The two applications are Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 (both Community Edition) and the games are World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, and Fallout 4 (the last being a Steam download).

So I am looking for advice on these changes.

Alternative approaches

It seems that I have a couple of options:

• clone the 1TB hard disk to the new SSD and just use the new SSD as D:
  
• uninstall the games and applications then reinstall them to the new C:
  
• create a D: partition on the new NVme drive and copy the installation folders there
  

The easiest approach would seem to be to clone the 1TB drive to the new SSD as D: and move on. However I would be missing out on the NVme goodness with the games as well as the Visual Studio programming environment.

The most straightforward approach would be to uninstall the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk and then reinstall them to the C: drive.

The applications are Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017, both Community Edition. These would both be straightforward to uninstall from D: and reinstall to C:.

The games are World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 from Blizzard and Fallout 4 from Steam. These games will require long download time probably two or three days over my internet access. And I would have to start Fallout 4 all over again.

Concluding thoughts

Perhaps the best option would be to combine the first two options.

Since the Visual Studio uninstall and install would be fairly painless I could do that while leaving the games on the 1TB drive and then do the clone of the 1TB drive to the new SSD. Then at a later date I could move World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 over to the NVme drive.

I would think that working with Visual Studio would be easier and quicker from the NVme C: drive while the games would be quick and responsive enough if the game assets are on an SSD.

 

Prebuilt computer won’t install windows after replacing CPU and internal M.2 SSD

Need some assistance. I started out with a prebuilt gaming PC. The MB is a ASUS Prime B360M-A. I took the CPU (Intel I5 9600K) and the internal SSD (M.2 (500GB) and put it in my new computer that I built. It works great. The prebuilt computer I’m giving to my stepson. I replaced and installed the CPU with an Intel I5 9600K and a 1TB internal SSD. Am I wrong in assuming that Windows needs to be freshly installed back on the prebuilt computer that I reinstalled hardware? What’s steps do I need to do? I tried doing a Windows media download to a USB flash drive, but the boot up always freezes…. Either at the ASUS page or at the windows setup page and I lose control of my mouse. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

Reinstall Windows 10 to new hard drive

Hi Rodolpho,

We want to know about the issue you're having with your recovery drive. Please answer the questions below:

• Are you trying to reinstall Windows 8 or Windows 10?
• If you already upgraded to Windows 10, were you able to create a new copy of the recovery drive?

We suggest creating a new copy of the recovery drive and then follow the steps provided by Andre Da Costa above this thread.

Update us with the outcome so we can assist you further.