Dell inspiron 11 laptop with win 10. Tried to place SSD samsung evo 850 . It would not boot with this drive.I cloned the s

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When you clone a drive there is no need to change ANYTHING in the bios. I would suggest going back in and setting everything back to how it was (If anything set the BIOS settings back to Default should fix the issue).

If you Clone while running windows and have the SSD though USB there should be no reason to disable secure boot. Secure boot only need to be disabled when booting. If your PC came with Windows 8 or 10 the primary boot MUST be uEFI.

My question is how did you clone your drive and with what software? That to me sounds like the real issue and not any bios settings/ssd.
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crazy6

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Thank you for your response. I am trying to figure out why the drive will not work in this system. I have downloaded all the updated files from Samsung. I know the SSD drive is not defective since it works in my desktop system. I also know that I cloned it correctly. In fact, I cloned once using a migration program from Samsung and once using Acronis.

I placed the cloned hard drive into the laptop and it booted one time. On reboot it failed to even start up.

I do not understand bios settings very well. I changed the HDD setting to ATA. This made no difference.

Next move?
 
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Ethan Daniel Smith

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I wanted to do the same thing to an hp x360 1t, replace the hdd with an ssd but i read somewhere and im not sure how true it is but the x360 11t stores the windows key in the bios and when you connect to internet for the first time it activates. Maybe this has something to do with why the ssd won't work. Try reinstalling the hdd it came with to see if it works again.
 
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dcbohn2016

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I am battling similar issue only on a Dell. It is a UEFI issue the best I can tell and have not found a decent solution. Some suggest disabling the "Secure boot" option in the UEFI Bios before cloning, but I tried that with no success. UEFI is an additional layer to protect against malware. UEFI has more storage room and capabilities than just plain bios. Win8 and newer have the capability to store keys/hashes and other things that keep your OS more safe during secure boot. Do NOT use ATA on a SSD. Using the f12 key I can boot my SSD but the OS still thinks it is a regular WD hard disk that it is replacing. I have tried Win 10 boot up repair, etc, no joy. Naturally SS says it is a Dell issue, Dell wants a credit card before talking..... my laptop is still under warranty. I have yet to try
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
But have little hope that they will help.
 
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When you clone a drive there is no need to change ANYTHING in the bios. I would suggest going back in and setting everything back to how it was (If anything set the BIOS settings back to Default should fix the issue).

If you Clone while running windows and have the SSD though USB there should be no reason to disable secure boot. Secure boot only need to be disabled when booting. If your PC came with Windows 8 or 10 the primary boot MUST be uEFI.

My question is how did you clone your drive and with what software? That to me sounds like the real issue and not any bios settings/ssd.
 
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