i have samsung ssd evo 512gig = i clone the hard drive its still asking for bootloader or no bootable media. when i loaded fre

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i have samsung evo ssd hard drive 512 gig
no matter what i do it keep on asking for boot loader or no bootable media
i clone samething
i secured erased samthing
i freshly installed os 7/8 not a upgrade it still asking for bootloader after windows 8 finished installing and updates and reboots it asks for bootloader. it put the windows 8 cd in there it loads
i did change settings in the bios to boot with ssd hard drive and its stil asks for bootloader/ bootable media
please help!!!
-Aziz
 
Solution
clone does not equal copy

did you clone the original hard drive or copy/back up the original hard drive. two totally separate things.

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i did copy, i cloned and freshly installed windows 7 and 8. it does loads windows once it reboots it does not find the bootloader. when i put the windows 8 cd it works it goes desktop and i can use it. However, i reboot it and remove the media cd its looking for bootloader.