Cloning a HDD to SSD

Maxusomega

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Apr 6, 2013
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Hi, im going to cut to the chase, I cannot clone my HDD ( western digital blue 1 tb) to my SSD (kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240 gb). I have tried a bunch of programs mainly AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.5 and i got close by individually copying each partition to the ssd, but when i booted from it the computer said that a critical file was missing and required a backup disk drive thing which i don't have... Also i know i have enough space on the ssd to transfer everything from the hdd. Also the the hdd is in a Basic GPT format (i don't know if its classified as a format or not) and the ssd is in an mbr format. the program that i was using said that i couldn't clone because the hdd was in a gpt format so i tried to find a gpt to mbr converter but when i opened it up it was the other way around. I am really not sure where to go from here any help would be awesome thanks. Also i am using windows 8
 
Solution
I ended up using whats called "msi burn recovery" and made a recovery usb then booted with only my ssd and turned off fast booting also changed my bios start up option to Csm with some other word but i figured it out. thanks for helping with the problem

Maxusomega

Honorable
Apr 6, 2013
56
0
10,640
I ended up using whats called "msi burn recovery" and made a recovery usb then booted with only my ssd and turned off fast booting also changed my bios start up option to Csm with some other word but i figured it out. thanks for helping with the problem
 
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