Two issues: If you clone the original drive, you must make the initial boot of the system with only the new drive installed.  Otherwise, the system will boot from the original drive. The other issue is that a new, blank drive needs to be partitioned and formatted before Windows can use it. Windows 7 instructions, but will work for any version thereafter. [URL]  
Hello, my first post here. I recently purchased a new G15 5511. I7 11800H. 256gb SSD. RTX3050 4gb. Windows 11. I just installed a new Crucial P5 500gb SSD and I have completed the cloning and booting process. I'm booting from the new SSD and I cloned to the Crucial for one because its larger but its also faster. Crucial is showing up as drive C: and the original SSD is showing drive :D, I'm assuming this is correct. The only problem I'm having is all of my files are showing up under both drives. I figured this would happen in a clone but how do I effectively remove all of the doubled files to save space? Thanks in advance.
G15 5511, files on 2 ssd's