Can't get my computer to boot off of my SSD?

[WhiteWolfofRivia]

I've tried everything that I know how, and I'm just at a loss. I had two hard drives in my computer, and bought an SSD yesterday, bringing my total to 3 hard drives. I cloned my C drive over to it, changed the BIOS order, but it threw "Windows can't boot because it's missing an important component" error, or something like that.

There were a few smaller partitions on my C drive that didn't move over, so I copied those over as well, to no avail. As far as I know I'm doing everything as I should, but it's just not working :/ is there something stupid that I'm missing? (if you need any additional information, let me know!)

 

[spooky2th]

If you have more than one HDD installed when windows is installed, windows will load boot files on the other disks as well. Your SSD is probably missing those files. A true clone will clone the whole drive which is what you need.

 

[puttynene]

1. Clean install
or
2. Redo the clone/migration thing, this time ensuring you also have the System Reserved partition selected as well.

always clean install on a new SSD.

 

[spooky2th]

1. Clean install
or
2. Redo the clone/migration thing, this time ensuring you also have the System Reserved partition selected as well.

always clean install on a new SSD.

Not necessarily, I have cloned many HDD's to SSD's with perfect results.