Samsung 850 EVO 1TB not booting on new PC after data migration from old PC

adamfires

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So, here's my issue:

I have an HDD on an old PC and I used the Samsung Migration Software to migrate everything from the HDD to the new SSD. I already had a separate copy of Windows 7 running on the new PC with the new SSD I just built with no more than 50MB of new storage being taken up, but I don't think that's relevant since the software wipes the SSD if there's anything on it already.

After I took out the SSD from the old PC and installed it back into the new one, it turns on and I can run BIOS... but it gets to the "Starting Windows" screen and freezes and keeps trying to reboot to no avail. It gets stuck in a loop of "Starting Windows" a nd shutting down...

Can anyone figure out what went wrong here? When it gets into that loop it is still past the "press F2" screen, which is odd to me. I really don't want to have to manually move everything from the HDD to the new SSD, but I need to get going somehow soon and this is a pretty big roadblock.
 
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You cannot move a hard drive (HDD or SSD) from an old PC (I'll call PC1), to a new PC (PC2) and expect it to work.

PC2 will (most likely) have a different motherboard chipset, CPU, memory, graphics card, than PC1.

When Windows starts, it loads software drivers that are compatible with the hardware on PC1, so when it encounters the hardware of PC2, it doesn't know what to do so it just hangs and reboots.

So when you did your data migration from your HDD to your SSD, your SSD will only work on PC1.


Unless other Forum members have other suggestions I'm...




You cannot move a hard drive (HDD or SSD) from an old PC (I'll call PC1), to a new PC (PC2) and expect it to work.

PC2 will (most likely) have a different motherboard chipset, CPU, memory, graphics card, than PC1.

When Windows starts, it loads software drivers that are compatible with the hardware on PC1, so when it encounters the hardware of PC2, it doesn't know what to do so it just hangs and reboots.

So when you did your data migration from your HDD to your SSD, your SSD will only work on PC1.


Unless other Forum members have other suggestions I'm pretty sure your only recourse is to do a fresh Windows install with the SSD in PC2.





 
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adamfires

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Ok, I figured I would probably have to start over when this happened. Thanks for your help.