Cloning new SSD to become Boot Drive?

freakinhobo

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I just finished building my wife's new computer with a new 1TB HD and SSD. Her old drive was a 250GB which I cloned over to the SSD. I changed the SSD to be the default boot through the BIOS and removed the old drive. Now it's saying there is no boot device and the only way to boot the computer is placing the drive back in. What am I doing wrong? I used Macrium Reflect to clone the HD onto the SSD..
 


Likely you missed selecting the boot partition from your original drive.

Can you post a screencap of the bottom poretion of your Disk Management window?
 
So this worked for my computer.. boots perfectly now. My wife and I have identical computers other than she is using Windows 10 and I am still on Windows 7. I'm pretty sure I did the same EXACT thing to fix the issue with one computer.. but the other one is still booting off the old HD. When I try disabling them as a boot device to force the SSD, it's not picking up any boot devices.
 


Not disable....disconnect
If it's not doing it...something is wrong.
 


I only disabled mine and it worked.. if I disconnect I'm pretty sure it's going to look for a boot drive somewhere..
 


I'll redo.. it's actually disk 0 on that pic.. I don't understand why it works one minute then doesn't the next..
 


Right. Disk 0 has no boot partition...🙁