Mike_290 :
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Mike_290 :
I recently got a new PC build; but my tower no longer fits my 2 TB SSD. I got an SSD Enclosure as recommended by a buddy of mine, and the enclosure itself works fine. Except for the fact I can't boot from it. Everytime I select it in the BIOS Boot Menu, I get the error message 'Reset and Select Boot Device'. I have tried rebooting, and using different boot options. But I cannot seem to boot properly.
Worst case, I can continue booting from my 100GB SSD I have in right now, but it makes it difficult to download things and find files properly.
Any help is appreciated.
Bit confusing about what you are trying to do here, why are you trying to boot off the external drive? Can't really sort out what you are doing. Is the drive you are using setup as a bootable drive? Or did you just take an internal drive with Windows and put it in a USB enclosure and trying to get that to boot? That won't work. Windows is not made to boot off an external drive. You can boot a PE version of Windows off an external drive to do administration tasks but not a full Windows setup.
Maybe I'm wording it wrong, but my old harddrive doesnt fit in my new slot for my SSD. So I'm using an Enclosure (Vantec Nexstar CX) and a Sata to USB 3.0 connection cable to hook it up. However, I cannot boot off of it, which is what my primary goal is.
Yes that is what it sounds like you are doing, and you can't do that. I don't get why your SSD does not fit though, all the hard drives are the same size externally. Get someone around you that knows how to work with computers to look at what you are doing. You also can't just move the drive from your old system to the new one and have it boot, you would need a clean Windows setup either way, outside of your drive not fitting in the case, which is odd.
Are you sure you have a 2 TB SSD? Those would be very expensive, are you talking about a normal platter hard-drive? What case do you have?
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