I am replacing an ssd in my desktop with a new sshd, but I'm having weird problems.
To start with, the desktop has 2 current hard drives, a 60gb ssd (used for OS, is now too small so it's being replaced) and a 2 TB HDD. The HDD has the OS recovery partition since I didn't want to waste my extremely limited SSD space.
When I clone the SSD onto the SSHD and then replace the SSD with it, I get a blue screen saying important hardware is missing.
When I format the SSHD to do a clean install of windows 10 on it I get the exact same blue screen.
I figured that it must be freaking out about the recovery partition, so I decided to unplug the HDD (I can go back and format it later if I have to).
If I unplug the HDD, and try to do a clean install of windows 10 it will enter the setup, but then will reach a page where it says that an important media device driver is missing.
I'm pretty sure (after over a week of fiddling) that the driver message is about the SSHD (since I can't continue with the install regardless of whether I use a DVD or bootable flash drive). However the computer reads the SSHD just fine when I've got it booted in windows to clone to the SSHD.
I have no idea what to do at this point. How can I replace my small SSD with this new SSHD? I don't care if I have to format everything at this point, I just need it to work.
For just a little more information, the SSHD is a Seagate 1TB laptop SSHD.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or replies.
To start with, the desktop has 2 current hard drives, a 60gb ssd (used for OS, is now too small so it's being replaced) and a 2 TB HDD. The HDD has the OS recovery partition since I didn't want to waste my extremely limited SSD space.
When I clone the SSD onto the SSHD and then replace the SSD with it, I get a blue screen saying important hardware is missing.
When I format the SSHD to do a clean install of windows 10 on it I get the exact same blue screen.
I figured that it must be freaking out about the recovery partition, so I decided to unplug the HDD (I can go back and format it later if I have to).
If I unplug the HDD, and try to do a clean install of windows 10 it will enter the setup, but then will reach a page where it says that an important media device driver is missing.
I'm pretty sure (after over a week of fiddling) that the driver message is about the SSHD (since I can't continue with the install regardless of whether I use a DVD or bootable flash drive). However the computer reads the SSHD just fine when I've got it booted in windows to clone to the SSHD.
I have no idea what to do at this point. How can I replace my small SSD with this new SSHD? I don't care if I have to format everything at this point, I just need it to work.
For just a little more information, the SSHD is a Seagate 1TB laptop SSHD.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or replies.
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