Cloned SSD not showing up after cloning HDD to the SSD

[bazz5313]

Hi,

I have installed Crucial MX500 SSD. I have a HDD (C DRIVE), DVD DRIVE (D), and when I installed the SSD I labelled it E. I have used Acronis to clone the whole of C drive to the new SSD E drive. I will then use SSD for boot/windows/etc, and leave the HDD as a basic storage drive. However - message says Acronis clone was successful, but the only drives showing are C and D, no SSD. I was going to go into bios, and set my E drive as the boot drive, however if its not showing on my PC will it show up in BIOS? I have checked disk management, it shows DISK 0, and DISK 1, and CD-ROM 0. Disk 1 is showing as C drive, healthy, (boot, page file etc ), and Disk 0 says healthy, (primary partition). Both disks show 349gb used (give or take a few megabytes difference). Have I done something wrong.

Thanks.

 

[scout_03]

you have to use the sdd only at system reboot plug in the first sata slot on system and remove hdd to do this or it will try to use boot mgr from hdd and not ssd also letter e is not seen as boot drive system always use the c one .

 

[captaincharisma]

are both your new SSD and old SSD connect via SATA or is one of them an M.2 type SSD?

 

[bazz5313]

Hi, both are SATA 3. I checked in Bios but seems only the HDD showing. Should I put HDD sata cable into SSD and boot?

 

[captaincharisma]

then it sounds like the drive you want as the boot drive needs to be the first drive installed so swap the SATA cables so the new SSD drive is connected the SATA 1 or 0 port

 

[SkyNetRising]

I have checked disk management, it shows DISK 0, and DISK 1, and CD-ROM 0.

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[bazz5313]

https://imgur.com/a/7KdJMed

 

[Imacflier]

bazz,

When you clone with Acronis the disc name is cloned right along with the data (makes sense if you think about it) Unplug the HDD, reboot, rename the SSD to what every you want it to be, you should be good to go.

Larry

 

[SkyNetRising]

You have to boot your system without HDD connected.
After you have successfully done that, only then you can reconnect HDD,
alter boot sequence in BIOS, so it boots from SSD (not HDD) and
clean, repartition, reformat HDD.

BTW it's really hard to differentiate your HDD from SSD. Double check properties of your Disks and label partition names accordingly.

When you boot from SSD, OS partition on SSD will become C: ( not E: ).

 

[bazz5313]

Hi, got it sorted, thanks. Removed the HDD Sata cable. Booted up fine. Plugged HDD into Sata, booted up and the system recognises the HDD also. Many thanks for the helpful suggestions and replies. I wanted to double check C was the Sata, and found out the defrag optimization screen lists what drive you have etc. Thanks again.