- Oct 30, 2011
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Hi. I have a bit of an odd situation. I'm not really sure what to make of this and Googling around hasn't helped, so I will try to explain as clearly as possible.
I'm upgrading my CPU and motherboard, and thought I would also upgrade my SSD. I have an older 120 gb (we will call this C) that I want to clone onto a new 500 GB (we will call this D).
However, when I tried cloning C using both the Samsung cloning software that game with D and with the free Macrium software, it wouldn't allow me to clone drive C. It said one of the paths was broken. I noticed that the Samsung software indicated the origin drive was my second SSD that I have in my system, which used to run Windows 8 on a laptop until I took it out and wiped it to put it in my desktop (for certain games). We'll call this drive F.
A couple months ago I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 through a free upgrade provided by my university. I realized today that I can't boot into Windows without both drives C and F plugged into the motherboard. When I unplug drive F, I the PC starts booting Windows 7, and then attempts to run a repair utility, going in a loop.
I cloned drive F (the second SSD) onto drive D (the new, Samsung SSD), including the system reserved and the folder for my games. When I unplug F, the system boots normally, even when I instruct it to boot from D. When I unplug F and D, leaving only C plugged in, it boots into that Windows 7 loop again.
I'm guessing when I upgraded to Windows 8, somehow some of it installed on both C and F?
Is there a way to fix this, or would it be easier to simply buy a copy of Windows 8.1 and put it on the Samsung drive (D)? Could I download Win 8.1 Pro from Microsoft and then install it directly onto the Samsung drive, or could I perform a completely clean installation onto my initial drive and then clone it?
Side note: I currently don't have a CD drive plugged into the system.
I'm upgrading my CPU and motherboard, and thought I would also upgrade my SSD. I have an older 120 gb (we will call this C) that I want to clone onto a new 500 GB (we will call this D).
However, when I tried cloning C using both the Samsung cloning software that game with D and with the free Macrium software, it wouldn't allow me to clone drive C. It said one of the paths was broken. I noticed that the Samsung software indicated the origin drive was my second SSD that I have in my system, which used to run Windows 8 on a laptop until I took it out and wiped it to put it in my desktop (for certain games). We'll call this drive F.
A couple months ago I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 through a free upgrade provided by my university. I realized today that I can't boot into Windows without both drives C and F plugged into the motherboard. When I unplug drive F, I the PC starts booting Windows 7, and then attempts to run a repair utility, going in a loop.
I cloned drive F (the second SSD) onto drive D (the new, Samsung SSD), including the system reserved and the folder for my games. When I unplug F, the system boots normally, even when I instruct it to boot from D. When I unplug F and D, leaving only C plugged in, it boots into that Windows 7 loop again.
I'm guessing when I upgraded to Windows 8, somehow some of it installed on both C and F?
Is there a way to fix this, or would it be easier to simply buy a copy of Windows 8.1 and put it on the Samsung drive (D)? Could I download Win 8.1 Pro from Microsoft and then install it directly onto the Samsung drive, or could I perform a completely clean installation onto my initial drive and then clone it?
Side note: I currently don't have a CD drive plugged into the system.
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