A few weeks ago I received a 1TB Western Digital Black SN750 M.2 SSD, boasting an impressive 3470 MB/s read speed on the packaging. I already had a SATA SSD installed in my gaming/photo editing PC. Nevertheless, those specs got me to pick up a screwdriver and install the new M.2 SSD. The physical installation is dead simple: remove graphics card, install M.2 SSD, reinstall graphics card. I wasn’t really looking forward to a full reinstallation of Windows 10 though. There’s just too many applications, settings and licenses on that system that I didn’t want to recreate or re-enter. Instead, I wanted to clone Windows 10 from SATA SSD to M.2 SSD.
After a little bit of research, I ended up with Macrium Reflect, which is freeware disk cloning software. Long story short: I cloned the old SSD to the M.2 SSD, rebooted from the M.2 SSD, and… was greeted with a variety of errors. The main recurring error was Inaccessible Boot Device, however in my troubleshooting attempts I saw many more errors.