Replacing 1TB SSD with 2TB SSD - not being recognised

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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mjkalba @mjkalba

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Replacing 1TB SSD with 2TB SSD - not being recognised

I have ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th Gen laptop. I am trying to replace a 1 TB SSD by cloning it to a 2 TB SSD. The clone completes successfully but when I install it I get a message that “A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed”. It reports “Inaccessible Boot Device”. I have tried various procedures recommended using a Windows 11 recovery usb drive, but to no avail. Has anyone experienced a similar problem, and if so, do they have any suggestions?

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Hi @mjkalba,

Is the SSD shown as being detected in the BIOS storage drive menus?

If not it may be a faulty drive or not connected correctly.

If it is then something went wrong when it was cloned

8 oct. 2023 par jayeff

It is detected by thw BIOS. It can be accessed from Command Prompt mode in the Windows Recovery environment and by other tools recovery medir.

8 oct. 2023 par mjkalba

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Just verifying that you cloned it using cloning software and not just copied over to it from the original drive?

8 oct. 2023 par jayeff

Cloned with Partition Magic, Macrium Reflect, and Aomei Backupper Pro. Same result with each tool..

8 oct. 2023 par mjkalba

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Have you checked that the cloned disc is set to "active" as shown in this link?

9 oct. 2023 par jayeff

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mjkalba @mjkalba

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In the end I bit the bullet and did a clean install of Windows 11. 🙁

Fortunately this is a laptop I use for gaming, so it was not full of apps and will not take too long to bring bank to its original state.

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Hi @mjkalba,

Is the SSD shown as being detected in the BIOS storage drive menus?

If not it may be a faulty drive or not connected correctly.

If it is then something went wrong when it was cloned — jayeff
It is detected by thw BIOS. It can be accessed from Command Prompt mode in the Windows Recovery environment and by other tools recovery medir. — mjkalba
@mjkalba

Just verifying that you cloned it using cloning software and not just copied over to it from the original drive? — jayeff
Cloned with Partition Magic, Macrium Reflect, and Aomei Backupper Pro. Same result with each tool.. — mjkalba
@mjkalba

Have you checked that the cloned disc is set to "active" as shown in this link? — jayeff