SSD wont stay as Bootable

diofant · Nov 18, 2018

Evening all,

Recently purchased a 1tb WD SSD, decided to set it as a bootable drive. To do this, ended up buying a license in a program called EasyUs, which let me clone the C drive to the formatted SSD. Problems started then - going into the ASUS bios, I couldnt see the SSD on the Bootable devices list - I had the HDD, the BluRay drive (for some reason) and a WD Passport drive. Went into advanced settings, couldnt add anything to boot order, only rearrange. Eventually figured out the SSD was somehow shoved into 'Floppy Drive BBS Prioritizaties'. Adjusting it in there allowed me to add it to the boot order.

After I got rid of the HDD and BluRay and left only the 'Floppy' SSD as bootable, the PC gave me the 'Reboot and select proper boot device' error. The kicker is that if I were to go down the settings, into the Override, the system WILL boot from the SSD... Once. Some screenshots are attached.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/141581962820321280/513823033614532638/20181118_160902.jpg?width=868&height=651

Left to right: Hdd, bluray, empty, ssd. You cants see leftmost but its Sata3g as well. Rightmost and one near it are Sata 6g_12.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/141581962820321280/513827088134963212/JPEG_20181118_162500.jpg?width=868&height=651

WD SES is the SSD.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/141581962820321280/513827609885278211/JPEG_20181118_162707.jpg?width=868&height=651

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/141581962820321280/513828544896565249/JPEG_20181118_163050.jpg?width=868&height=651

Here, I thought I found what was wrong - I figured here it was changing it to Floppy, so I set that to Hard Drive, but nope, wasnt it.

If anyone has any suggestions... Please, let me know.

USAFRet · Nov 18, 2018

1. A clone/migration application cost $0.
Macrium Reflect, Samsung Data Migration.

2. If you return the system to original config, without the SSD and with only the original HDD...does it boot up and work properly?
If so, we can redo this clone thing. And do it properly.
Details to follow later.

diofant · Nov 18, 2018

USAFRet :

Shame. Already paid for the other program, wish I knew of the Macrium Reflect before. And yep, it can boot just fine from HDD - and it CAN boot from SSD, but only if I go into BIOS and select SSD as 'override'.

USAFRet · Nov 18, 2018

diofant :

OK, so redo it completely. Exactly like this, no deviations.

Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the 450MB Recovery Partition, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
-----------------------------

diofant · Nov 18, 2018

USAFRet :

diofant :

OK, so redo it completely. Exactly like this, no deviations.

Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the 450MB Recovery Partition, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
-----------------------------

Small issue. The original HDD is 2TB. Currently has 1.36tb full, so not enough for the 1tb SSD. I could move about 400 gb to some passport drive I suppose? Alternatively, would it be ok to JUST clone C drive, or does this disrupt it?

USAFRet · Nov 18, 2018

diofant :

Please post a screencap of your Disk Management window.

diofant · Nov 19, 2018

USAFRet :

Here you go! https://i.imgur.com/zAkcQPx.png

USAFRet · Nov 19, 2018

diofant :

USAFRet :

Here you go! https://i.imgur.com/zAkcQPx.png

OK.
During your migration process, leave off the D, E, and G partitions.

diofant · Nov 19, 2018

USAFRet :

diofant :

OK.
During your migration process, leave off the D, E, and G partitions.

https://i.imgur.com/BoHCzSC.png

Done. Power off/disconnect the HDD now? Or make the rest of the SSD into a partition so I can use it?

USAFRet · Nov 19, 2018

diofant :

The steps above specifically state to power off, disconnect the old drive, and boot up from the new drive before you do anything else.

diofant · Nov 19, 2018

USAFRet :

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/141581962820321280/514258516823769099/20181119_205246.jpg

Some strangeness, but I think it boots off of the SSD now. The ssd has renamed itself in boot menu (assuming this is to do with where I plugged it in now. So has the Hard Drive. Booting process is much faster (so I am assuming it worked), it was even faster when I didnt have any other drives plugged in. ASUS bios screen is skipped entirely (of course, still accessible).

Did some more verification, yeah its 100% booting off the SSD now, so your process worked! Thanks a ton for your patience and instructions!

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