Dell 7548 laptop Samsung data migation UEFI boot issue

[dcbohn2016]

OK I have been fighting this issue for a few weeks now. I purchased an SS 850 EVO 500Gb SSD. I have disabled secure boot in the UEFI bios. I am running Win10 Pro, I have reduced the C: to less than 500Gb. I have done an image backup to an external (USB) hard disk. I have created a restore USB thumb drive. When I clone my HD to the SSD using SS Data Migration and I put the SSD in the laptop, I get the issue no boot device found. If I use f12 I can see, select and boot of the SSD, although the OS still says it is a WD hard drive. I am not new to PC builds although I am new to UEFI. I tried Acronis and it said it can not clone it. Dell and Samsung say credit card please or talk to the other guy. Any ideas or solutions will be appreciated.

 

[drtweak]

Use Macrium Reflect. You can clone while running windows or make a USB recovery drive to boot off of and then make an image of one and then save it and the restore it.

I have done this multiple times in dell laptops without issue. The only thing you need to change if you boot is to disable secure boot. No need to change any other settings and you don't want to either.

 

[dcbohn2016]

Use Macrium Reflect. You can clone while running windows or make a USB recovery drive to boot off of and then make an image of one and then save it and the restore it.

I have done this multiple times in dell laptops without issue. The only thing you need to change if you boot is to disable secure boot. No need to change any other settings and you don't want to either.

Macrium is at first doing a disk image copy, as in although I have 600GB of hard disk unallocated on a 1TB disk, migrating to a 500GB SSD Macrium said that it could not migrate because there was not enough space.... as in it wanted to copy the unallocated space...... So it may be able to do stuff like turn trim on, it can't get past the first step, thanks anyway.

 

[drtweak]

It shouldn't copy the unallocated space? If you run Macrium, and then make an image of your OS drive, when you click on Image this Drive click on Advanced Options. Make sure that Intellient Sectory Copy is selected and not Make an Exact copy of the Partition (This one makes a bit for bit copy even if it marked as free space. This is for hard drive recovery)

Also it compresses the image as well so it should be less than the size of all the data.