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Do you have any Bios screen shots of the problem? Have a fat 32 formatted usb stick in a usb 2.0 port and press f12 to capture...

Do you have any other disk management programs? I use Disk Genius... DiskGenius: Data Recovery, Partition Manager, Backup & Disk Utilities

Did you follow the "Crucial" instructions that are with the driver? What program did you use for cloning to your new drive?

Also you would be much better on boot times by transferring Windows to the new Crucial Nvme drive. ;-)

When you open "Device Manager" you need to be looking at "Storage Controllers" for the "Crucial" driver.

Use standard MS drivers for the M.2 drive. Can you show us a screen shot of the "Disk Management"

Boot times will be longer due to PCIe lane sharing! So turn off Sata port 5/6 and just use ports 1/4. That's how I setup my bios.

You need PCIe mode... if you can... so you don't share PCIe lanes. Why do you need to zero a SSD? do you mean format?

Mines on autologin, last boot took 11.5 secs

15mins to prepare a M.2 drive??? my system does that in seconds! for a new WD SN850x Black 2Tb Nvme. I just use the standard MS driver. (Wed 21 June 2006) What Sata ports are you using? ... Intel based systems are picky about Sata "port sharing" with USB ones. And also port sharing with NVME...

Check for "Disk" errors in event viewer? that can really slowdown boot times!

My current speed, using a wifi bridge (TP link)on 5Gz at 6 meters and a Brick wall to my router. 1G symmetrical from Toob internet. Upload speed is a bit slow.... but I had 36Mb VDSL2 before (on a good day).

Do you not have a USB stick? If you do it needs to be at leased 8Gb or larger and make a Windows 10 or 11 installation disk using that! I use "Disk Genius" for partitioning etc... and you could look at the current boot entries Windows is using. And whether Disks use GPT or MBR. Install the...

What power plan are you using?

I get my Office products from here https://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/search.php?search_query=offi Never had any problem activating etc......