HDD to SSD Win 8.1

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Bill Brooks

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I have a Lenovo G510 i7(which does not seem fantastically faster than my celeron Samsung R530!). I have replaced the DVD with a SSD. I have cloned the HDD to the SSD, made changes in the BIOS(changed to ACHI,switched to Legacy, put the SSD first in boot) but get the message "no bootable device insert disc and press any key".
If I use UEFI I do not see the SSD. I have googled this until my finders are sore to no avail. Can anyone help me boot from the SSD and once I can do this can I reformat the HDD? The SSD is called A:, the HDD C:. I cannot change the drive letters.
 
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Y0GI

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Have you tried removing the old HDD and putting the new SSD in its place?

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Bill Brooks

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Thanks for your reply.
No, I want the HDD for storage; I got the SSD for a system speed up, as I have with my desktop(1 SSD,1 2 HDD's).
 
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Thanks for your reply.
No, I want the HDD for storage; I got the SSD for a system speed up, as I have with my desktop(1 SSD,1 2 HDD's).
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Yes, I understand, but your computer may not be capable of booting the OS from the DVD drive bay. It may "require" the OS to only boot from the HDD bay.

You never know with laptops. They're always different.

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Bill Brooks

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Thank you for replying.
I think I I said this by saying I cloned the original installation to the SSD.
My problem is I am unable to boot from the SSD.
 
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When you cloned it did you copy over the boot partition too? That would have been a second partition on the main drive probably. If not you may want to try cloning again this time being careful to include all partitions. Most cloning tools will include that by default but you might have missed it somehow.
 
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Bill Brooks

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Thanks for your reply. Yup, boot partition shows up in Disk Management.
 
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What is the SATA configuration with the old HDD?


Do you have the Windows 7 media disc? if Yes, try boot from it and run a System Repair.
 
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