I have just purchased a new 860 EVO SATA M.2 500Gb to install in my new computer (Acer TC-885 ES14) to replace the existing 128Gb drive. Downloaded the Samsung migration software 3.1. It seemed to function as required. Shut the computer down and transferred the EVO to the motherboard's original location. After I reconnected everything as it was before, I turned the computer on and it requested that I change the boot location to another drive. I reconnected the original SSD to the USB, selected the USB as bootable and the computer functioned as designed with the old SSD. Tried booting with the EVO again, same problem. Am I missing something?
you said "it requested to change the boot location".. hmm.. check the cmos if you're on AHCI Mode. then change the bootnlocation to where you're new ssd is located.
I would suggest you use Macrium Reflect in order to clone your drive properly. The new drive needs to be put in an enclosure or at least on a USB adapter in order to write to the disk.
I usually use another computer, put both drives on a USB adapter, and clone one from the other. If they are different sizes, you can manage that by altering the partition that has the most free space to either take up more, or less, depending on your needs. Makes a perfect clone and will boot up first shot.
I have somewhat the same issue except the SSD is new install and I am trying to install WIN 10 to it or at least the boot part of WIN 10 so that bootup is quick. My PC is an Acer AT3-605-es20 and there is no option to boot from an SSD on the BIOS.
Almost all new PCs have UEFI to protect the system from booting from a drive besides the drive that the manufacturer installed as opposed to a standard BIOS. If you didn't setup the drive with UEFI, it won't work right.
I have looked at the hardware and I am unable to determine if this PC can support UEFI. I followed instructions for diskmgmt.msc (click on the drive, right-click on properties, click on volume and I should see the option for UEFI but I do not). Does this PC support UEFI ?
When I go to the BIOS Setup Utility through the command 'shutdown /r /fw' and tab to the Boot options, under 1st boot device is Windows Boot Manager. When I try to change it, there is no option to have it boot from my SSD (970 EVO Plus NVMe-M.2) although the SSD currently is empty. Does the SSD need to be GUID too ? or what ?
