Can't set cloned drive as default boot drive

[hobbles105]

Hello, I bought a 1TB Samsung 860 evo drive to replace my 500gb samsung 850 evo as my main drive. The 500gb drive will become storage. I initiated the 1tb and then used saumsung data migration to clone the 500gb driver's data onto the 1tb drive. Everything went smoothly. I can see and access the drive within windows, and can even boot from it in the boot menu. The problem is that when I enter BIOS, I cannot set the new 1tb drive as my primary boot drive. It isn't in the list. Except on another page of UEFI bios I can select a boot override and boot from the 1tb no problem.

 

[USAFRet]

At the end of the cloning process, you needed to:
Power OFF
Disconnect all other drives
Power up, and allow the system to try to boot from the new drive by itself...

Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the 450MB Recovery Partition, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
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[hobbles105]

Do I need to wipe and reclone since I have booted several times with both hooked up?

 

[USAFRet]

Do I need to wipe and reclone since I have booted several times with both hooked up?

Clone it one more time, as above.
The clone process should wipe out everything on that target drive.

 

[hobbles105]

I really appreciate the help. This process killed my HDD backup somehow so I was concerned.