Yesterday I finally got my Crucial MX300 275GB SSD in the mail and popped it in my laptop and got a software called Macrium to clone the OS and whatnot from my HDD to my SSD. Few notes are: I didn't format the SSD when I put it in, because it was already readable by the program and it was seen in File Explorer but said something about how it was corrupted and/or unreadable. I then attempted to clone my HDD to my SSD, only to get an error 15 minutes later about how I don't have insufficient permission or whatnot. My brother and I tampered a bit around CMD and the BIOS to see if we could find something but in the end just tried another time. Once again it gave the same error and then he suggested we force scan/repair the drive in CMD, as it might do something. Scan/Repair went on and I decided to go to sleep seeing that it went up by 1% every 4-5 minutes.
Woke up and found it at the login screen. I prompted up the Macrium software because it was the only software that could read it's contents other than disk management, and for some reason, it was cloned?? All the same things on the HDD like the (OS, WINRETOOLS, and NFTS Primary) blocks were copied on the SSD. I was confused but decided to with it and try and launch the laptop without the HDD to make sure everything was fine and set my SSD as the primary drive. I do exactly that and end up getting an error about repairing or whatnot, and I couldn't launch windows. So my brother and I went through the BIOS and tried multiple things, like changing some boot options to some of the files on the SSD that were called something like - boot.sfd, boot.exe, bootfix.exe, etc etc. - and nothing worked in the end, so I put my HDD in and just decided to wipe my SSD and try to start fresh. And for some reason I was able to "delete volume" for the :E (OS I think) off the SSD but couldn't do the other blocks like WINRETOOLS and NFTS PRIMARY. So I went to CMD and tried to clean the SSD and it said I don't have the permission to do that.
So I'm sort of at a dead end, anyone have ANY sort of suggestions? I would really appreciate it. I also have a few questions. Is there a way I can just wipe both drives and fresh install Windows 10 without losing my license? I do have an extra code for it but I don't want to use it as it's for emergencies only.
Sorry for the long post, but I'm really desperate for help and very lost. Thanks
Woke up and found it at the login screen. I prompted up the Macrium software because it was the only software that could read it's contents other than disk management, and for some reason, it was cloned?? All the same things on the HDD like the (OS, WINRETOOLS, and NFTS Primary) blocks were copied on the SSD. I was confused but decided to with it and try and launch the laptop without the HDD to make sure everything was fine and set my SSD as the primary drive. I do exactly that and end up getting an error about repairing or whatnot, and I couldn't launch windows. So my brother and I went through the BIOS and tried multiple things, like changing some boot options to some of the files on the SSD that were called something like - boot.sfd, boot.exe, bootfix.exe, etc etc. - and nothing worked in the end, so I put my HDD in and just decided to wipe my SSD and try to start fresh. And for some reason I was able to "delete volume" for the :E (OS I think) off the SSD but couldn't do the other blocks like WINRETOOLS and NFTS PRIMARY. So I went to CMD and tried to clean the SSD and it said I don't have the permission to do that.
So I'm sort of at a dead end, anyone have ANY sort of suggestions? I would really appreciate it. I also have a few questions. Is there a way I can just wipe both drives and fresh install Windows 10 without losing my license? I do have an extra code for it but I don't want to use it as it's for emergencies only.
Sorry for the long post, but I'm really desperate for help and very lost. Thanks
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