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smartboardFuzzyWuzzy593

I have a Razer Blade 15 2019 and I got a new Crucial P3 1 tb m2 ssd to upgrade my boot drive. I cloned my original boot drive onto it using Macrium reflect without any issues. However, when I replace the old ssd with the new one, the screen gets stuck at the Razer logo and does not boot and does not let me go into recovery mode, change the boot order, or enter the bios.

I figured out eventually that when I put the ssd in an external enclosure and leave the old ssd in the sole m2 slot, the computer does let me change the boot order and I was able to boot into the new ssd. This does not work if the old ssd is not in the computer (it just gives me a blue screen error after cycling through the loading circle once).

I would like some help figuring out a way to boot with the new ssd in the computer and not relying on the enclosure or the old ssd to let me into the boot menu.

 

These issue were similar to another users problems, but they never found out what the issue was.

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Best answer by smartboardFuzzyWuzzy593

I found a solution. I returned the Crucial P3 1TB drive and got a Samsung 990 Evo 1TB. I chose this ssd since the original drive was also a Samsung, so I thought that it would be more likely to be compatible. I cloned the new Samsung 990 Evo using Macrium Reflect and swapped the old drive to the new one. On the next boot, the computer booted to a blue screen error saying that I needed to repair the drive. I swapped back to old drive, recreated a repair disk (usb stick) using Macrium (see the video below for instructions, around 5:10) and swapped back to the new drive with the repair usb stick plugged in. On the next boot, the computer automatically booted to the repair stick and when the Macrium software loaded, I chose the “Fix windows boot” option and chose the new drive in the drop down menu.

See this for an example of what I am talking about, around 15:40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHCENfs87F4

After the repair finished. I took out the repair usb stick and rebooted the computer and the new drive worked just like the old one, same everything. (You have to take out the disk, otherwise the computer will keep booting to the repair software.)

 

I suspect that there is some driver, firmware, or hardware compatibility issue with the Crucial drive since it works only with an enclosure and with the old drive still in the computer.

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Probably just time to upgrade to the new 2024 Blades as they have made many improvements to the thermals and all that now. There really is no need to waste time on self upgrading/improving the 2019/2020 (and/or older) Blade models and the support for them is most likely dead in the water by now, which happens at some point in time anyways.

I typically only keep one older computer around here because it helps me figure things out such as doing the annual Windows Upgrades to see if it works for others that may have identical hardware and need the answer to this question or other issues/things on them.

smartboardFuzzyWuzzy593

I found a solution. I returned the Crucial P3 1TB drive and got a Samsung 990 Evo 1TB. I chose this ssd since the original drive was also a Samsung, so I thought that it would be more likely to be compatible. I cloned the new Samsung 990 Evo using Macrium Reflect and swapped the old drive to the new one. On the next boot, the computer booted to a blue screen error saying that I needed to repair the drive. I swapped back to old drive, recreated a repair disk (usb stick) using Macrium (see the video below for instructions, around 5:10) and swapped back to the new drive with the repair usb stick plugged in. On the next boot, the computer automatically booted to the repair stick and when the Macrium software loaded, I chose the “Fix windows boot” option and chose the new drive in the drop down menu.

See this for an example of what I am talking about, around 15:40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHCENfs87F4

After the repair finished. I took out the repair usb stick and rebooted the computer and the new drive worked just like the old one, same everything. (You have to take out the disk, otherwise the computer will keep booting to the repair software.)

 

I suspect that there is some driver, firmware, or hardware compatibility issue with the Crucial drive since it works only with an enclosure and with the old drive still in the computer.

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