When I cloned a 2.5" SATA SSD to a M.2 NVMe drive mine didn't boot. I found out that this was due to a NVMe driver issue as the restore image that I used was made before I had the M.2 drive inserted into my computer. One way to get around this is put the M.2 drive in your computer and boot Windows from the 2.5" drive . Windows will then install the drivers for the NVMe drive . Then clone your OS onto it . The other way which I read on the Crucial website is when the computer goes to the error screen follow the repair options and go to Safe Mode . This will also install the correct drivers , then reboot and it should work. I never tried this though as I got mine to work using the first method. I'm not sure if this is the same problem you had though but it sounds like it was.
Just now reading this as I am having a similar issue. I'm swapping out my HP Envy's 128GB SATA M.2 for an NVME 512GB M.2. after cloning with Acronis True Image, boot device not found. I cloned with Macrium Reflect, same thing. I used an external M.2 enclosure that is compatible with both SATA and NVME. Actually was used twice before to clone two other NVMEs for a desktop and another laptop; no problems with either one of those SSD swaps. Can you walk me through your process to get the NVME drivers to load onto the SSD? I got lost in the above explanation. My laptop is an HP Envy 15 x360 15-bp194cl, with dual drives: one 2.5 HDD 1TB, one SATA M.2 128GB. The SATA one is the two-notch variety. I tried to go into my computer's BIOS to see if there is an option to change SATA to NVME, but I couldn't figure it out. The info I can find from HP for my series/model of computer shows NVME was an option when the device was new on the market.
@@Krispyshock I have 2 hard drives in my computer so I cloned my SSD onto the HDD put the nvme drive in and booted from the HDD. Then cloned the HDD onto the nvme drive . You won't be able to do this in a laptop though .
Can't thank you enough. What a complete waste of time, I cloned 2 drives thinking I must have done something wrong. What would we do without incredible generous creators like you.
just wanted to say that this absolutely saved me. for those that are unable to use a 2nd PC/OS to delete the boot folder, you can use the windows media creation tool (via i.e. thumbdrive) to access cmd and delete the boot folder in there. after that, just have to run the automatic repair tool under troubleshoot > advanced options and it should work fine
Hey, are you able to tell me how you were able to navigate to and delete the boot folder via cmd? I’m not great with pc’s but I can’t boot into my machine, and have had to use media creation tool to open cmd. Just no idea how to navigate it. Thanks
DUDE! You totally solved my clone from 250GB to 1TB M.2 Drive using Macrium! I YAHOOOO'D so loud I scared my parrot! I was getting Blue Screen after Blue Screen with everything I tried. After the Macrium clone failed I even tried other cloning apps and the same result, because Macrium had been installed and used on the original drive. Thank you so much! Where's that buy you a cup of coffee app? I definately owe you. OH, also, I had followed someone else's video which had me jumping through hoops to figure out how to use the available space for the new C Drive partition. In 2 seconds, with your explanation, I floated right and filled. Great Video! I want my last 3 days of frustration back! Have a great day! MikeV
Don’t know if it was the safe mode trick from the pinned comment or your method of deleting the boot folder because I did both, but thank you anyways. Problem fixed!
I m stuck at boot screen with 0xc000025. Can no longer get into windows. I tried all the options on internet. Other than doing a clean install, and losing old data, I don't see any other option :(
Hey bro I'm new to cloning so pardon me if I sound dumb but I cloned a MBR disk from hardware on Legacy bios setting to a GPT disk on UEFI bios setting using Macrium and afterwards it wouldn't boot at all. Am I supposed to convert that MBR disk to GPT first and see if the old computer can run it on UEFI? When I did the clone, the new computer recognized the ssd but would not show up on the boot sequence list. I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could help. Thank you. Btw I tried the fix in the vid already
@@cyanideaside mate, I'm just some guy that wanted to share what he learned. Did you check the pinned comment? Do you know if the new drive has the correct drivers in the clone?
Thanks, but for me this didnt work. I had to create a Macrium Rescue USB from the software, then boot to the usb from the bios. From there I found a "repair windows" or "windows boot" option that resolved the issue.
Bro thank you so much ! Wtf where they thinking about putting a folder named boot ?? They could have named it boot_backup or smth. Waisted 1 hour cause of this but you saved me🫡
When I cloned a 2.5" SATA SSD to a M.2 NVMe drive mine didn't boot. I found out that this was due to a NVMe driver issue as the restore image that I used was made before I had the M.2 drive inserted into my computer. One way to get around this is put the M.2 drive in your computer and boot Windows from the 2.5" drive . Windows will then install the drivers for the NVMe drive . Then clone your OS onto it . The other way which I read on the Crucial website is when the computer goes to the error screen follow the repair options and go to Safe Mode . This will also install the correct drivers , then reboot and it should work. I never tried this though as I got mine to work using the first method. I'm not sure if this is the same problem you had though but it sounds like it was.
Just now reading this as I am having a similar issue. I'm swapping out my HP Envy's 128GB SATA M.2 for an NVME 512GB M.2. after cloning with Acronis True Image, boot device not found. I cloned with Macrium Reflect, same thing. I used an external M.2 enclosure that is compatible with both SATA and NVME. Actually was used twice before to clone two other NVMEs for a desktop and another laptop; no problems with either one of those SSD swaps.
Can you walk me through your process to get the NVME drivers to load onto the SSD? I got lost in the above explanation. My laptop is an HP Envy 15 x360 15-bp194cl, with dual drives: one 2.5 HDD 1TB, one SATA M.2 128GB. The SATA one is the two-notch variety.
I tried to go into my computer's BIOS to see if there is an option to change SATA to NVME, but I couldn't figure it out. The info I can find from HP for my series/model of computer shows NVME was an option when the device was new on the market.
@@Krispyshock I have 2 hard drives in my computer so I cloned my SSD onto the HDD put the nvme drive in and booted from the HDD. Then cloned the HDD onto the nvme drive . You won't be able to do this in a laptop though .
Can't thank you enough. What a complete waste of time, I cloned 2 drives thinking I must have done something wrong. What would we do without incredible generous creators like you.
just wanted to say that this absolutely saved me. for those that are unable to use a 2nd PC/OS to delete the boot folder, you can use the windows media creation tool (via i.e. thumbdrive) to access cmd and delete the boot folder in there. after that, just have to run the automatic repair tool under troubleshoot > advanced options and it should work fine
Hey, are you able to tell me how you were able to navigate to and delete the boot folder via cmd? I’m not great with pc’s but I can’t boot into my machine, and have had to use media creation tool to open cmd. Just no idea how to navigate it. Thanks
Thank you !
Still does this. Your video was the answer. Thanks for making it!
Sharing is caring - You could just have been satisfied with solving, but you chose to help hundreds of people instead - Thanks a lot
Beating my head over this, was even thinking bitlocker had something to do with it, it was just deleting that folder, Thanks a lot!!
DUDE! You totally solved my clone from 250GB to 1TB M.2 Drive using Macrium! I YAHOOOO'D so loud I scared my parrot! I was getting Blue Screen after Blue Screen with everything I tried. After the Macrium clone failed I even tried other cloning apps and the same result, because Macrium had been installed and used on the original drive. Thank you so much! Where's that buy you a cup of coffee app? I definately owe you.
OH, also, I had followed someone else's video which had me jumping through hoops to figure out how to use the available space for the new C Drive partition. In 2 seconds, with your explanation, I floated right and filled. Great Video!
I want my last 3 days of frustration back!
Have a great day!
MikeV
After battling boot errors for 24 hours, ONEEEEE FILE is what caused all this error.
Thank you so much. This video saved me. I appreciate it a ton!!!
THANK YOU!!! I can't believe that was so simple! Searched everywhere for an answer, no luck- this did the trick!!
Having same issue, will check this out when I get home. Thanks for the info!
You're a knight in shinging armour. Thank you so much
Dude - a thousand thanks to you for posting this
Thank you for this. Upgraded my m.2 and spent 4 hours trying to figure out why it wasn’t booting smh 🤦♂️
Unbelievable.. This actually worked man
Don’t know if it was the safe mode trick from the pinned comment or your method of deleting the boot folder because I did both, but thank you anyways. Problem fixed!
Thanks a lot!
I m stuck at boot screen with 0xc000025. Can no longer get into windows.
I tried all the options on internet. Other than doing a clean install, and losing old data, I don't see any other option :(
Connect the new disk as an external disk, locate the windows folder and magic 😀
I’m getting Error 9 while trying to make my initial cloning of my boot drive, anyone ever dealt with this before ?
Hey bro I'm new to cloning so pardon me if I sound dumb but I cloned a MBR disk from hardware on Legacy bios setting to a GPT disk on UEFI bios setting using Macrium and afterwards it wouldn't boot at all. Am I supposed to convert that MBR disk to GPT first and see if the old computer can run it on UEFI? When I did the clone, the new computer recognized the ssd but would not show up on the boot sequence list. I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could help. Thank you. Btw I tried the fix in the vid already
@@cyanideaside mate, I'm just some guy that wanted to share what he learned.
Did you check the pinned comment?
Do you know if the new drive has the correct drivers in the clone?
deleted the boot folder. but still when i want launch in my new clone ssd in bios. it keeps booting me to my old ssd
I'm stuck at boot screen 😭
Thanks, but for me this didnt work. I had to create a Macrium Rescue USB from the software, then boot to the usb from the bios. From there I found a "repair windows" or "windows boot" option that resolved the issue.
Thank you! I’ve been having the same issue!
I tried all kinds of copying programs, but it does not work
Didn't work for me
After the copying process, the system cannot boot. All programs fail
my nigga, I did as you've said.. didn't work.
i cloned by minitool version 10. and found that same boot folder.. containing a holder..
What are you cloning from? & to what are you cloning to?
Bro thank you so much ! Wtf where they thinking about putting a folder named boot ?? They could have named it boot_backup or smth. Waisted 1 hour cause of this but you saved me🫡