[SOLVED] "Boot selection failed" error after cloning ?

[Balit]

Based on forum's suggestion, I bought a crucial 250GB SSD and have "successfully" cloned current HDD onto it. But when I replaced HDD with SSD, the laptop threw this message - "boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".
I'm using windows 7, laptop is lenovo G460. I used Acronis true image for cloning. This is how HDD and SSD (the bottom one) currently look.

SSD is 250GB and HDD is 320GB but I barely use 50GB.

 

[TommyTwoTone66]

Cloning doesn’t always work, particularly on laptop OEM installs.

best course of action would be to do a clean install of windows 10 on to the new drive. I’m not sure if upgrading from 7 to 10 is still free? I think it should be.

do the upgrade to windows 10 on the old drive, then once windows 10 is activated, do a clean install of windows 10 from usb on to the new drive.

remove the old HDD when doing the fresh install to the new SSD

 

[USAFRet]

That was not a "successful" clone operation.

On Disk 1, the 218GB partition is identified as RAW.
That SHOULD contain the contents of the C drive, but does not.
There is no "Windows" on that drive.

Return the system back to original config, without the new SSD.
Does it boot up?

 

[Balit]

Thanks USAFet, I deleted some more files from HDD and also defragmented it (not sure if that matters). And tried a fresh cloning and that worked! I'm trying this from laptop with SSD. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.