I've just bought a new NVME drive that's faster than my current one, and I want to move my operating system onto it. I can use Samsung Magician to clone my existing OS drive, but I'm curious if I can boot from the new cloned drive without having to physically remove the original drive. Essentially, I want to make the new drive the default boot option and then format the old drive. Is there any specific advice or steps I should follow before I start taking out components like my GPU to access the current OS NVME? I did try changing the boot priority in the BIOS yesterday, but despite setting the cloned drive as the priority, I couldn't format the original one that was still labeled as 'C:'.
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I remember facing a similar issue! When I was unable to format the original drive, I had to confirm that the cloning process was completed successfully and then set the new drive as the primary boot in BIOS again. Also, check if there's an option to change the drive letter in the OS; sometimes, it prevents formatting if it's still using that letter.
Once you've cloned your OS to the new NVME drive, head into your BIOS and set the cloned drive as the first boot option. If you boot into the new drive and it recognizes it, you should then be able to format the old drive. Just make sure you’re using the new drive as your OS before trying to erase the old one.
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