Windows 10: Reactivating Windows with newly installed m.2 nvme ssd with the old sata ssd also installed.

I bought a PC a bit ago from a friends and the pc came with a 120 GB sata ssd and a 2 tb hardrive installed. I just bought a 1 tb samsung 980 m.2 nvme ssd I want to install and make the boot drive. For some reason no matter what I try, the PC still refers to itself has the old user and it's a small thing but I wanted to reset the 120 GB ssd so the C\ drive is in my name and make the new SSD the main drive. The hardrive has all the files I care about keeping at this point and I was wondering what is the best way to go about correctly resetting the smaller SSD and being able to correctly install

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cloning sata ssd to m.2 nvme

Hi so i'm planning on building a new pc and my main storage drive on it will be an m.2 nvme and i want to clone my current pc's main sata ssd with my windows install on it to the new pc, I already know how to clone sata ssd to m.2 nvme and keep all my old files and keep windows but i'm wondering if there will be any hardware problems since my new pc will have a completely different motherboard, cpu and gpu, if there is any hardware problems is there anyway to get around it? or would i just have to install windows by itself on the new m.2 nvme and then afterward copy all the files except windows from the old ssd

 

SATA SSD and M.2 SSD

i was with a ssd sata and now i have ssd m.2, i formatted and put windows 11 in m.2, but i did not remove the ssd sata, i can only boot windows with the ssd sata connected, if i remove it windows does not boot to m.2



obs: windows was installed on m.2 but the ssd sata was still connected, but windows was 100% installed on m.2, is there any way I can set m.2 as primary? (when i removed the ssd sata it did not recognize windows)

Sorry for my bad English

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cloning sata ssd to m.2 nvme

When you clone SATA SSD to NVMe SSD there isn't required drivers on Windows and it will not boot, but it can be fixed by booting in safe mode. (I did this few days ago when upgrade old laptop with NMVe SSD.)

When you boot first time with that new NVMe disk it fail and you have two options how to enter safe mode.

Option 1) Let it fail until it attempt to automatic repair and when you see this screen select Advanced repair options to enter repair environment.





Option 2) When OS start boot and you see those spinning dots push power button to force power off, on third boot it will open repair environment.

When you are in repair environment follow these instructions to boot in safe mode.

PCIe SSD not booting after cloning from SATA SSD/HDD | Crucial.com

This will install correct NVMe driver and boot to screen asking user name and password. At that point do not enter anything, just use power button on lower right cornet on screen to restart. Now it should boot normal mode and you can sign-in.