Booting From New Samsung EVO SSD Drive

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Need your help...

So just installed my brand new Samsung 850 500gb evo on my desktop pc. I used a cloning program (macrium reflect) all went well and my files were cloned (sooo i think).

Now I am trying to use my new drive right.. I go into bios, disconnect my old drive, set boot priority to boot from new ssd and also go to boot options and make sure my new ssd is selected. With all that said, every time I boot from my new drive I get a black screen asking to me to connect a boot drive and then hit any key.

I am very confused as I have checked on my new drive and it looks like windows is present. There is a windows folder with what seems all files accounted for.

Please let me know what I can do.

Thanks
 
Solution
The disk must be blank to convert between GPT and MBR, so delete any remaining partitions. Right-clicking the name to the box on the left hand side containing the disk number should have the option "convert to GPT" (or "convert to MBR" if already GPT)

If it won't let you delete them, there's a more powerful command line tool. Right-clicking Start again has another option: Command Prompt as Admin. In that window, type "diskpart". The command "list disk" shows the disks, the command "select disk X" makes that disk selected (where X is the number of the disk you need to work on). Once selected, typing "clean" should delete every partition. Then you can type "convert GPT" right there

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I'm going to keep this open for another day should I run into any more problems. Thanks again for the help and I'm sure I'll be crediting you tomorrow. Wish it could have gone a bit smoother.
 

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We've done it. Thanks for all the help along the way. It was a much simpler problem than we thought. When I switched windows boot manager to hard disk 1 (my ssd, i think?) instead of booting from my ssd it worked. All data has been transferred and all is well.

Thanks again.