Cloning new SSD to become Boot Drive?

freakinhobo · Dec 1, 2015

I just finished building my wife's new computer with a new 1TB HD and SSD. Her old drive was a 250GB which I cloned over to the SSD. I changed the SSD to be the default boot through the BIOS and removed the old drive. Now it's saying there is no boot device and the only way to boot the computer is placing the drive back in. What am I doing wrong? I used Macrium Reflect to clone the HD onto the SSD..

USAFRet · Dec 1, 2015

freakinhobo :

Likely you missed selecting the boot partition from your original drive.

Can you post a screencap of the bottom poretion of your Disk Management window?

freakinhobo · Dec 1, 2015

I just noticed C: (old drive) still shows as boot in Disk Management while E: (SSD) does not. Here is the screen shot:

USAFRet · Dec 1, 2015

Right.
Your whole clone thing got messed up.

I'd suggest redoing the whole thing.
In Macrium, verify you have selected both the C partition, and the small System Reserved partition.
Leave off that 16.10 GB Unallocated space.

freakinhobo · Dec 1, 2015

Thanks I'll give that a try!

freakinhobo · Dec 2, 2015

So this worked for my computer.. boots perfectly now. My wife and I have identical computers other than she is using Windows 10 and I am still on Windows 7. I'm pretty sure I did the same EXACT thing to fix the issue with one computer.. but the other one is still booting off the old HD. When I try disabling them as a boot device to force the SSD, it's not picking up any boot devices.

USAFRet · Dec 2, 2015

freakinhobo :

Not disable....disconnect
If it's not doing it...something is wrong.

freakinhobo · Dec 2, 2015

Here is actually a screen shot of her Disk Management Window

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freakinhobo · Dec 2, 2015

USAFRet :

I only disabled mine and it worked.. if I disconnect I'm pretty sure it's going to look for a boot drive somewhere..

USAFRet · Dec 2, 2015

Which Drive is the new SSD?
I can't really tell from that pic?

For whatever drive is supposed to be the OS..It appears to be Disk 2 (New Volume C)...
That does not have the boot partition on it.

Redo the cloning thing.

freakinhobo · Dec 2, 2015

USAFRet :

I'll redo.. it's actually disk 0 on that pic.. I don't understand why it works one minute then doesn't the next..

USAFRet · Dec 2, 2015

freakinhobo :

Right. Disk 0 has no boot partition...

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