Windows 10: Windows 10 won't boot after NVMe M.2 install

Last week, my mother-in-law got me a 500 GB Samsung 980 NVMe M.2 drive as a late Christmas gift. Awesome. My boot drive was a Crucial 1 TB drive see below, and I had some problems getting Clonezilla to copy everything over to the new NVMe drive. Tried a couple of other programs, but always had weird ISO issues with my flash drive. No big deal, backed up all of my important files and did a clean install of Windows 10. Made the NVMe drive the boot drive. Windows set itself up, and I hit the ground running. Awesome. System worked like a charm for a couple of days. After my wife left for work th

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Pendrive Windows installer loop on m.2 nvme

Hey! I just bought a m.2 nvme ssd and wanted to format my old ssd and make a whole new installation on my m.2 when I plug in the usb pendrive its fine as always but when I get to the point that the pc restarts itself thats where things go bad.

After restarting it boots up the usb pendrive installer again, and yes i have tried changing the boot sequence to boot from the m.2 but it just wont, nothing will boot from there even tho the files are there.

The interesting thing is that I can install windows 10 from the pendrive with the exact same method easily to my old SATA ssd.

Motherboard: Gigabyte b460m ds3h

M.2 ssd: Western Digital WD Black SN770 1TB M.2 NVMe (WDS100T3X0E)

 

M.2 SATA to NVME clone: Windows 10 won't boot

Problem: Windows partition won't boot after cloning M.2 SATA drive to M.2 NVME. Simply returns to BIOS splash screen are restarts boot sequence.

Background: Cloning process was simple raw dd copy. Drive had EFI, Windows 10, and Linux partitions. Cloning preserved exact partition sequence, sizes, and UUIDs.

Linux partition needed minor tweaks to /etc/fstab due to the device names being different (/dev/nvme0n1px vs. /dev/sdax), but boots fine.

The disk is GPT, and I believe the original Windows 10 was UEFI - the Linux installation definitely was.

Boot sequence brings up Linux 'grub' menu first. Choosing the EFI partition then brings up Windows EFI boot menu. Fresh Windows install (see below) boots fine from here, old install fails.

Attempts at solution: I did a fresh Windows install in a spare partition and it boots fine. Using the new Windows installation, I've edited the BCD entry for my original Win 10 install. I have
the correct BCD device, osdevice, and path.

Questions:

• What else needs to be done to make Windows boot again?
• Are there any config file or registry changes that need to be made to account for the SATA to NVME move?
• How do I see boot error messages for a UEFI boot failure? No errors displayed and no log files that I can find in Windows or EFI partitions...

 

cloning hdd to NVMe m.2

Hi Crocodile_aligator

Yes, Windows will load the correct driver for the NVMe M.2. the first time you boot up Windows 10 from that drive after cloning your drive . . .