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3.0 out of 5 starsMany Problems Installing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 March 2023
Only one occupied NVMe slot on my motherboard so had to purchase an NVMe enclosure to clone to the new drive. Used Acronis to clone from my existing small Samsung Evo NVMe to the new bigger 2TB Lexar NVMe, all went well. Removed my existing NVMe and fitted the newly cloned Lexar 2TB, that should have been that. Bang, blue screen of death, “Inaccessible boot record.” Reversed procedure, and cloned again using different software, again blue screen of death. Checked the bios (Lexar was showing up in the bios) and all the usual procedures for the blue screen of death, to no avail. I happened to have a an old 256GB SSD drive laying around so I fitted that internally to my PC and cloned again using Acronis from my existing NVMe to the SSD. I then removed my existing NVMe and fitted the new Lexar NVMe to the motherboard slot. I then cloned again from the SSD to the new Lexar, removed the SSD and everything worked perfectly. What went wrong? I can only guess. Maybe, these NVMe drives do not like being cloned via USB 3 enclosures and prefer motherboard to motherboard cloning. Maybe, these USB enclosures are OK for utilising NVMEs for more storage but not for cloning, who knows! My motherboard is about three years old and only has the one NVMe slot, but a lot of the newer motherboards have multiple NVMe slots so this issue may not crop up for those motherboards.