SDD Won't Boot After Clone.. Tried everything!

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Hi, I have a Asus K450lc notebook running Windows 8.1. I just received my Crucial BX100 500GB SSD.
However, I cannot get it to boot. I used Macrium Reflect (free) to completely clone my HDD to the SSD. I cloned all the partitions from the old drive, and changed the size of the data partition to fit the ssd. (I tried cloning 4 different times, with no difference)

But when I swap out my old HDD for the SSD, windows doesnt boot. I get "Inaccessible_boot_device" bsod followed by the automatic repair wizard.
In the bios, I can see the SDD as "Windows Boot Manager". But once I try to boot and the error comes, it doesnt show up in the bios at all.
I even tried Macrium's "bootable recovery media". But when I boot from the usb to try to fix the boot, my sdd doesnt show up there either...

I tried doing a fresh install of windows from a CD, but the drive doesnt show up when I boot from this CD either.
The drive works in my desktop, so its not a faulty ssd.
I updated my bios, and no luck.
I tried turning off secure boot and fastboot and no luck.
Yes, the controller is set to AHCI.


Please help.....
 
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1. What is the disk-capacity (size) of your source HDD. I assume your destination disk, the SSD was connected as an external USB device for the cloning operation?

2. You indicate the source disk was multi-partitioned. Could you just indicate the number of partitions and the amount of data (in round numbers) contained in each of those partitions?

3. What precisely do you mean when you state you "changed the size of the data partition to fit the ssd."? If your source disk was equal to or not greater than the SSD's 500 GB disk-capacity you could have done a straight disk-to-disk clone with the Macrium program. I suppose you reduced the size of one or more partitions so that the total disk space of the combined partitions did not exceed...
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Yes I tried cloning just the OS, and I made sure everything was in the right order..
 
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1. What is the disk-capacity (size) of your source HDD. I assume your destination disk, the SSD was connected as an external USB device for the cloning operation?

2. You indicate the source disk was multi-partitioned. Could you just indicate the number of partitions and the amount of data (in round numbers) contained in each of those partitions?

3. What precisely do you mean when you state you "changed the size of the data partition to fit the ssd."? If your source disk was equal to or not greater than the SSD's 500 GB disk-capacity you could have done a straight disk-to-disk clone with the Macrium program. I suppose you reduced the size of one or more partitions so that the total disk space of the combined partitions did not exceed the 500 GB limit of the SSD. Is that it?

4. Can we assume that your source drive was (is) totally functional and performed without any problems whatsoever? Absolutely no problems after updating the BIOS?

(Forgive me if my questions are somewhat naive. While I've had some experience (favorable) with the Macrium Reflect Free program in the past few weeks it's not the disk-cloning program I ordinarily work with so I'm not terribly familiar with that program. The one I use is a commercial program ($49.99). So if my questions are nonsensical or not pertinent please ignore them.)
 
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First of all, I did not mean to choose this as the solution. Is there any way I can remove this as the solution so I can still get help?

1. My original HDD is 1000GB. The SSD is 500gb (shows 465gb). This was indeed connected with usb 3.0 to sata cable for the clone. However, when I wiped the SSD to try and install a fresh copy of windows, I plugged it directly in the origional sata port in my laptop.

2. I copied all 5 partitions from my original HD to the ssd. (100mb system partition, 900mb recovery partition, 20gb recovery partition, as well as the OS and data partitions. There is only about 80gb used in the os partition, and 20gb in the data partition.

3. I reduced the OS to 250gb, and the data to about 195gb (I clicked max size for this) (Did not change the sizes of the other partitions. )

4. I received the ssd brand new, unopened packaging. The clone process went good. And I could copy files to and from the ssd without problem. It was only when I went into the bios and the Windows 8.1 boot CD that i had troubles with the computer seeing the ssd. I have had no problems with the source HDD, I am using it to this day.

Hopefully these answers help solve my issue. I have been trying to figure this out for days.
 
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No, you cannot change your vote once it is tendered. It's as if your vote was cast in stone (or into some other very hard surface). Besides, Tom's Hardware has informed me that a Visa Rewards Card has been issued in my name for an amount of $0.50 since I've been designated "Best In Show" (or whatever the accolade is) which I can use at selected retail outlets such as Circuit City, Montgomery Ward, and Woolworth's. So there.

Anyway, as to your problem...

I believe your best course of action at this point-in-time is the one suggested by SortNVF and possibly others, i.e., perform a fresh install of the Win 8.1 OS. I realize you previously tried it but apparently the install failed for one reason or another. Presumably you're working with authorized Win 8.1 installation media. (You mentioned a "windows CD" but you mean a DVD, yes?). Anyway, try it again using appropriate care during the installation process and see if it takes.

It probably would be a good idea if you would first test the health of your Crucial SSD by running a diagnostic test. Virtually all of the SSD manufacturers have one and I assume Crucial does as well.
 
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Yes I have a windows 8.1 DVD. The problem is not with the DVD. I set it to boot from DVD, and it boots correctly. The problem is during the install when I go to choose my SSD to install it to, it doesn't see the drive at all.

Also, Crucial doesnt have a diagnotic test..
 
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Why don't you give this technique a shot...

Connect the SSD in your desktop as a secondary drive.

Assuming the desktop is running Win 8.1 access the Command Prompt (Admin) - more commonly known as an Elevated Command Prompt - from the window-style icon on the bottom left of your Desktop.

You'll be running these commands from C:\WINDOWS\system32

Enter Diskpart

list disk
select disk X (your secondary drive probably either disk 1 or disk 2, whichever is the SSD.)
DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES HERE - MAKE SURE YOU'VE SELECTED THE DESIRED DISK
clean all
This command will erase all partitions of the disk. It will take some time to complete the cleaning process. If the cleaning operation is successful a message will appear that "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk."

All the disk space now will be "Unallocated".

At this point you can create a partition, or exit Diskpart and access Disk Management to initialize, partition, and format the disk. The latter is probably the best course of action.

Hopefully you'll then be able to install the Win 8.1 OS on the SSD in your laptop.
 
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So i just tried this. Everything went good until I put in the Windows dvd. First of all, I can't see the dvd reader or the ssd as boot options in the bios unless I turn off secure boot, turn off fast boot, and enable 'launch CSM'. Once I do that, I can boot from cd. (I can boot from my hdd without touching any of these options)
During the windows install, once again I cannot see the ssd as an installation option when I have it plugged in the original sata port of my laptop. So I put my hdd back in, and plugged the ssd in with the usb to sata cable, and that time the Windows install saw the hdd AND the ssd. However, Windows install doesn't allow the install with a drive connected to usb..

Would it help to try to load Intel Rapid Storage Drivers during windows install?

Any other suggestions?
 
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I honestly don't know why you can't install Win 8.1 on your SSD. I wonder whether it would be wise for you to contact ASUS tech support to see if they can shed any light on this problem. Here's their tech support website...http://www.asus.com/us/support/

Note they have a "Live Chat" feature so perhaps you'll be lucky enough to converse with a knowledgeable tech support specialist.

Ditto for Crucial - see... http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd
 
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I know this is quite awhile after the original posts but someone may still run into this.

I just solved a similar issue. Just picked up an Asus Vivo mini-computer which comes with a 500 gig 5400 rpm 3.5" drive running Win 8.1. Wanted to switch it over to an SSD. I tried all the usual procedures, system image backup, creating a recovery drive and doing a factory restore, cloning with EaseUS Backup. The cloning I did on another computer. Nothing worked. I even tried cloning to another 500 gig drive to test and even that wouldn't boot.

Turned out there are two things I had to do in order to get Win 8.1 from the mechanical 500 gig drive that came with the Asus onto an SSD (I just used a 128 gig because this machine is only going to be used for presentations in a conference room - don't need a lot of storage space).

The first thing was to disable the unmoveable system files hiberfil.sys, swapfile.sys and
pagefile.sys as well system restore. This actually applies to cloning any Win 8/8.1/10 installation especially if you're going to a different size drive. (you can google how to do this)

The next thing was that I had to install and run the cloning software, in my case EaseUS Todo Backup, from the original OS installation on the Asus itself. I used a USB HD dock to connect to the SSD.

I'm not sure why it has to be done "live" from the source drive. I did get a variety of errors when trying to get the OS onto the SSD externally, including locked drive, drive too small, missing device and chkdsk needs to be run on one of the partitions of the cloned drive. Not sure if it's an Asus thing, a Windows thing, a Bios thing or....?

This did work, however, so I'm not going to worry about figuring it out. I'll leave that to someone else. :)


 
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After cloning my windows 10 c drive on a SSD Sandisk plus 240 gb with a usb-sata insignia enclosure and having a INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE with three different software I asked my BestBuy technician if he knew what was going on. He just told me to forget about the message and to install the SSD in my Dell laptop N5030. I didi it and everything works perfectly.

The BestBuy technician told me that the problem lies in the bios compatibilty ant the different versions of windows. So before you do anything foolish like I did with 3 different software and the numerous advices I followed from Windows and other sites, I recommend to simply install the SSD in your laptop or pc when the cloning process is completed correctly.

I wish I did contact him earlier. I would have save many hours of useless work.

Good luck to everyone.



 
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Macrium Reflect, I fixed my booting problem on Win 7 by loading back the Rescue menu and clicking the button Fix Boot Problems from there (all ticks were selected).
Good luck!
 
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