Recent content by megabyzus

Mo Moadeli Artpog, thank you for your response. What you indicate may very well be the case. Before I go down that route, is it possible to prove that it is indeed the case (other than not being able to boot off of the SSD)? Also, in all the previous cases where I cloned the HDD to a SSD, I...

I must reiterate that after I cloned the SSD from my HDD, I didn't remove the HDD. The HDD is still in place (I can't remove it. It's deep in the bowels of the laptop). Again, I have successfully cloned the SSD (I think) which is now in the optical drive slot, but the computer still boots from...

I have Dell n5110 that I want to install a faster SSD to boot from. The HDD is very difficult to removed so I left it in there and haven't removed it. The SSD is in a DVD caddy in place of the optical drive. (ODD). I used two cloning software (to make sure), EaseUs and Reflect namely, and the...

It took me a 3 hour bike ride to figure this out, but I had not plugged in the SSD properly. The cloned SSD drive works without a hitch (at least bootwise). BTW, my 7-8 minute HDD boot time is now down to 45 seconds. Amazing. Sorry for the false alarm and thank you for your responses.

'Cloned' from a 500G HDD to a 500G SSD. Took a LONG time but marked 'completed successfully'. Swapped in the SSD and get an 'operating system not found' error. Thoughts? Thanks!