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sudoxnerdx

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Purchased a crucial SSD to replace a cheap stock HDD in a Dell Inspiron 3455 for a co-worker. Cloned the drive on my desktop as there isn't a spot for a second drive on the Dell. The drive can boot just fine on my desktop but when I put it in the Dell it sticks on a constant black screen. BIOS detects the UEFI windows boot manager, but nothing works.

Do I need to find a way to clone the drive from the Dell or am I missing something.

Note I used Acronis to clone the drives I tried one where the partitions were expanded and one where the partitions were copied one to one with the same results.
 
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Boogieman_WD

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Hey there, sudoxnerdx.

If you've cloned the drive of your desktop computer instead of the laptop drive then its normal for the OS not to work with a different system as it has already been configured for the hardware of your computer. That would explain why the SSD works OK with your desktop computer as well.

You need to clone the drive of the laptop if you're to use the SSD as a boot drive with it. You can use a SATA to USB adapter in order to connect the SSD externally and clone the drive to it. Another option would be to take the HDD out of the laptop and connect it to your desktop computer along with the SSD and clone it, but make sure that the source drive is the laptop's HDD.

Hope that helps.
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sudoxnerdx

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I'm sorry I worded that incorrectly. I connected the HDD from the Dell to my desktop and cloned it to the SSD that was also connected to the desktop. The contents of the SSD should be identical to the contents of the HDD that works with the Dell.
 
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Boogieman_WD

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I see. Well, this should've worked if the cloning process was successful and if all the OS associated partitions are on the SSD. However, even though cloning might be successful in 9 out of 10 cases, sometimes it just fails. I'll suggest that you give it a go with a different cloning tool, just to double-check if the same thing happens again, or try my other recommendation - to try and complete the cloning process while having the SSD connected to the laptop externally.

Please keep me updated.
 
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sudoxnerdx

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So I tried running clonezilla and it was complaining about the drive so I booted into windows, ran a chkdsk, sfc, and tried again. It was happy to copy then. All the copying was one on the Dell machine. After hours of copying it finished, tried to boot, same issue as before... I'm at a lose!
 
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gbb0330

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did you use the disk to disk option?
 
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sudoxnerdx

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Update: So I used a windows 10 recovery USB drive and attempted to do a bootrec /scanos, no OS's detected. I used the dell recovery partition to literally factory restore the drive and it still won't boot... I'm going to install windows 10 from scratch and see if that boots and if not then I can only assume it has something to do with Dell's weird motherboard/BIOS setups on these cheap machines...
 
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