Question Cloned SSD wont boot

[Grayp]

(windows 10) I currently upgraded my old laptop from an HDD to an SSD i cloned my previous files from my hdd to my SSD using Aomei backupper with my PC but when i try to boot it up it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"

Any ideas what might've caused this problem and what are the solutions

 

[USAFRet]

(windows 10) I currently upgraded my old laptop from an HDD to an SSD i cloned my previous files from my hdd to my SSD using Aomei backupper with my PC but when i try to boot it up it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"

Any ideas what might've caused this problem and what are the solutions

If it does not work, you've done something wrong.

Are both of these drives in the system?

If you remove the new SSD, does it boot up with the old HDD?

What specific SSD?

 

[Grayp]

If it does not work, you've done something wrong.

Are both of these drives in the system?

If you remove the new SSD, does it boot up with the old HDD?

What specific SSD?

No my laptop can only hold one storage drive im currently using the ssd which prompts the error message but when i do use the HDD it does boot normally and displays my old stuff

 

[faalin]

Sounds like it you did not copy the entire drive, as in you're missing the boot loader partition.

Most people use Macrium Reflect (which is free) to clone the HDD to SSD.

 

[Grayp]

Sounds like it you did not copy the entire drive, as in you're missing the boot loader partition.

Most people use Macrium Reflect (which is free) to clone the HDD to SSD.

I see, i'll try the software tomorrow and see if it works

 

[SkyNetRising]

No my laptop can only hold one storage drive im currently using the ssd which prompts the error message but when i do use the HDD it does boot normally and displays my old stuff

How did you clone it, if system can hold only single drive?

 

[USAFRet]

No my laptop can only hold one storage drive im currently using the ssd which prompts the error message but when i do use the HDD it does boot normally and displays my old stuff

So how did you clone from the HDD to the SSD?

If there is only one port, there are ways to do this.
But there are very specific steps for this.

 

[Grayp]

So how did you clone from the HDD to the SSD?

If there is only one port, there are ways to do this.
But there are very specific steps for this.

I used my pc i connected both of the drives then did the cloning there

 

[USAFRet]

I used my pc i connected both of the drives then did the cloning there

Well, however you did it, you did it wrong.

The system works properly with the original drive installed?
Do you have an external drive, with sufficient empty space to hold the entirety of the current HDD?

And again, what specific SSD?

 

[Grayp]

Well, however you did it, you did it wrong.

The system works properly with the original drive installed?
Do you have an external drive, with sufficient empty space to hold the entirety of the current HDD?

And again, what specific SSD?

1. Yes it boots up normally and the desktop shows my old stuff
2. I do i have an 1tb external hardrive
3. Im using an Western Digital 512gb SSD

 

[Grayp]

How did you clone it, if system can hold only single drive?

I used my pc i connected both of my storage drives there and did the cloning there with aomei backupper

 

[USAFRet]

Im using an Western Digital 512gb SSD

Model?

SATA III, NVMe, what?

If NVMe, is your laptop actually compatible?

 

[Lafong]

I used my pc i connected both of my storage drives there and did the cloning there with aomei backupper

Get "imaging" on your mind instead of "cloning".

 

[Grayp]

Model?

SATA III, NVMe, what?

If NVMe, is your laptop actually compatible?

SATA III

 

[USAFRet]

SATA III

Assuming you have another drive with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current HDD:

1. Download and install Macrium Reflect
2. Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks". Create this on a small USB flash drive or DVD.
3. In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
4. When done, power OFF.
5. Swap the 2 drives
6. Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
7. Restore (on the toolbar), and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new m.2
8. Go, and wait until it finishes.
9. That's all...this should work.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I used my pc i connected both of the drives then did the cloning there

Can you show a result of your cloning?
Screenshot from Disk management with both drives connected.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Could be somethiing as simple as bootloader partition not having active flag set.

 

[Grayp]

Assuming you have another drive with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current HDD:

1. Download and install Macrium Reflect
2. Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks". Create this on a small USB flash drive or DVD.
3. In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
4. When done, power OFF.
5. Swap the 2 drives
6. Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
7. Restore (on the toolbar), and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new m.2
8. Go, and wait until it finishes.
9. That's all...this should work.

im currently trying this now do i have to download macrium on my laptop aswell?

 

[Lafong]

im currently trying this now do i have to download macrium on my laptop aswell?

Is this correct?

you have a laptop and you want to move everything from an old drive to a new drive in this laptop.

you also have an external drive

you also have a desktop PC

IF, I say IF, the above is correct you would:

Ignore your desktop PC completely. It isn't involved at all.

Install Macrium on the laptop. It doesn't have to be installed anywhere else.

Open Macrium and immediately make "rescue media" from Macrium menus using a USB flash drive of at least 1 GB in size.

Confirm that you can boot your laptop using the rescue media you just made. It should lead you to the Macrium interface.

While booted from the rescue media, make one image file in Macrium containing ALL partitions on the old drive, saving that image file to your external drive.

Shut down.

Remove the old drive.

Replace it with the new drive

Boot the laptop from the rescue media. That will take you again to Macrium.

Use Macrium menus to "restore" the image file on the external drive to the new drive.

Shut down.

Remove the rescue media from the USB port.

Attempt to boot from the new drive. It will or it won't.

If it won't, you likely did something wrong. Macrium success rate is probably 99%.

The tutorial should get you through this. If you have problems, ask.

 

[USAFRet]

im currently trying this now do i have to download macrium on my laptop aswell?

The instructions, step by step.
It tells you to install Macrium, so yes...

 

[Grayp]

Thanks everyone for the help my laptop is now booting correctly apologies for the late update