Cloning from 75GB Intel SSD to 256GB Samsung 840 Pro - Can't boot up

[Wendydra]

I internally installed my new Samsung 840 and hooked up all the cables.

Then I installed Macrium and cloned everything onto the new Samsung. It was successful. I restarted the computer. Hit DEL to enter Bios and changed the order so that my Samsung would boot up first.

I get a black screen that says BOOT DISK FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I don't have the disk anymore (nor an optical drive) and I can't figure out what is going on. Did I partitian wrong or am I just doing something even more stupid?

Thank you for taking a look.

Attached a picture of my disk manager:

Edit Note: I do have a hard drive I use to just store files on. It does not run the OS. I have Windows 7 boot up from the Intel.

 

[SchizTech]

What I see is the "system reserved" partition is on another disk ( the 500GB disk). That small partition is important; it's where the Windows boot loader is stored. The error would be happening because the boot path isn't correct. If that 500 GB storage drive was present since Windows was first installed the installer may have put the sys reserved partition there (it doesn't always put it on the same disk as Windows), and the boot path from the BIOS would have to be pointed toward that HDD.

 

[lantrich]

Try to clone again with EasUS. It is free and it makes perfect clones. Your problem is that you copied the files on your drive but not the Windows boot information.

 

[SchizTech]

Try to clone again with EasUS. It is free and it makes perfect clones. Your problem is that you copied the files on your drive but not the Windows boot information.

That would be because his boot info wasn't on the Intel SSD to begin with. Note the system reserved partition on the 500GB HDD.

 

[SchizTech]

Try these steps to fix the boot issue:

http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/189387-system-reserved-partition-wrong-drive-how-do-i-move.html

except instead of moving the boot path to the current C (the old Intel) move it to D (the new Samsung)