Crash After Installing New SSD

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My PC is freezing after 1-2 min. after startup from installing a new SSD. I installed a new 500 GB Samsung 850 Evo and ran the Samsung migration program and cloned my existing hard drive. After cloning, it prompt me to restart. After doing so my PC frozen and had no input on my mouse or keyboard and could only do a hard shutdown. I then pulled up my motherboard BIOS and made sure the SSD was booting windows. I also noticed that the SSD and hard drive are in AHCI mode and had them plugged into the SATA 3.0 0&1 slots on motherboard. Restarted with these settings I then was able to wipe my old hard drive and uninstall it from disk manager before another crash. I then unplugged my old hard drive restarted, and PC did not crash. Tinkered around a bit for 15min and ran the samsung magican program and saw everything was hooked up properly and SSD health was "Good". I then plugged the hard drive back in a new SATA 3.0 slot restarted and PC then crashed again. I am trying to make my old hard drive a storage drive but it is not cooperating well.

I am running windows 10 and not sure if this is the issue, or if its a setup problem in my BIOS or just a faulty SSD card. I have been looking at a lot of forums and have not found any fixes just yet. I really do not want to re-install windows if possible. If anyone knows what to do that would help me a bunch. Thanks again.

Specs:
Intel Core i5-2500K
Samsung Evo 850 500GB
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB Hard Drive
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX Intel Motherboard
GeIL Enhance CORSA 16GB RAM
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series 550W Power Supply
 
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For what I could understand, your new SSD works if your old HDD is not plugged?

No straight away clues about this problem but you could try your old disk on another sata port, also, some motherboards can separate AHCI/IDE mode for different ports, for example sata 0 to 2 in AHCI and 3 to 6 in IDE mode, so if you can, try this out, put your HDD on sata 6, and have it work on IDE mode just for testing purposes.
 
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On my motherboard I have 4 slots for SATA 6 Gb/s connections and 4 slots for SATA 3 Gb/s connectors. I have rearranged the SSD and hard drive a couple times in the SATA 6 Gb/s connections. It does not look like in the BIOS I can switch AHCI/IDE modes between the two drives. Should I move the hard drive to the SATA 3Gb/s connectors? Would that impact performance of the hard drive if i get it to work? Thanks again for your reply.
 
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it wont, HDD's cant even keep up with the Sata II bus speed, thats 3Gb/s or something like 375MB/s. So there wont be any speed difference moving the HDD into a sata 2 or a sata 3 pórt. just go with the one that actually work as intented.
 
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