Cloning from 75GB Intel SSD to 256GB Samsung 840 Pro - Can't boot up

Wendydra

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Oct 22, 2014
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I internally installed my new Samsung 840 and hooked up all the cables.

Then I installed Macrium and cloned everything onto the new Samsung. It was successful. I restarted the computer. Hit DEL to enter Bios and changed the order so that my Samsung would boot up first.

I get a black screen that says BOOT DISK FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I don't have the disk anymore (nor an optical drive) and I can't figure out what is going on. Did I partitian wrong or am I just doing something even more stupid?

Thank you for taking a look.

Attached a picture of my disk manager:
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Edit Note: I do have a hard drive I use to just store files on. It does not run the OS. I have Windows 7 boot up from the Intel.
 
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What I see is the "system reserved" partition is on another disk ( the 500GB disk). That small partition is important; it's where the Windows boot loader is stored. The error would be happening because the boot path isn't correct. If that 500 GB storage drive was present since Windows was first installed the installer may have put the sys reserved partition there (it doesn't always put it on the same disk as Windows), and the boot path from the BIOS would have to be pointed toward that HDD.

What I see is the "system reserved" partition is on another disk ( the 500GB disk). That small partition is important; it's where the Windows boot loader is stored. The error would be happening because the boot path isn't correct. If that 500 GB storage drive was present since Windows was first installed the installer may have put the sys reserved partition there (it doesn't always put it on the same disk as Windows), and the boot path from the BIOS would have to be pointed toward that HDD.

 
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That would be because his boot info wasn't on the Intel SSD to begin with. Note the system reserved partition on the 500GB HDD.