Dell Inspirion i7 7779 2 in 1 SSD Setup

[beckanator]

I got this laptop just this past Dec, and the HD gave up the ghost already. It's a 1tb Seagate.

Dell sent me a replacement out pronto, but I have an SSD SATA slot. I purchased a Crucial 1TB compatible (I believe) SATA III MX 300. I installed it alone and took out the HD drive. I put the battery back in and turned the unit on. I let it run its checks, it discovered no hardware issues and it recognizes the new SSD. But that's it. I changed the boot order, but now I'm getting a message that there is not a bootable drive.

I'm just a weekend warrior at problem-solving and doing upgrades. I know my way around pretty good on a PC, but it's sometimes the techie detail things that throw me. I'm sure I'm missing something perhaps simple.

I'll add that I did update the bios to the latest Dell recommended before I started the change out.

Any suggestions and help to get my SSD to be the bootable drive are greatly appreciated!

My plan is then to install the new replacement 1 TB HDD as another drive.

 

[harrisjb78]

How did you copy the old HDD to the new SSD? Sometimes cloning is hit or miss.

Do you have the Dell recovery disk?

 

[beckanator]

I actually solved my own issue... dummy me. I just created a bootable disk for W10 on a USB drive and reinstalled the OS. Tada. Sometimes I overlook the simple stuff just trying to get to the end.

So, I'll add that the Crucial 1TB SSD MX 300 SATA M.2 2280SS SSD works with this laptop!

 

[beckanator]

How did you copy the old HDD to the new SSD? Sometimes cloning is hit or miss.

Do you have the Dell recovery disk?

Thanks Harris, I had decided against cloning as I thought disk errors may mess it up. I had everything backed up so I just went ahead and installed W10 fresh.

Thanks for the suggestion!