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Michael Bellamy

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Okay, I've been going at it for 2 days now, and tired of browsing other people's problems without solving my own.

Here is the situation:

I had a HDD. I bought a SSD. I need to move my OS to the SSD, but I lost my installation disc, so I've been trying to migrate/clone. I don't care about any data, I simply want my SSD running as the boot drive, so I can wipe my old HDD.

I've tried using multiple programs, and nothing is working. I either end up needing to pay money, or use an install CD. I know its possible to do this based on what I'm reading, I just keep hitting dead ends.

Thanks for your help.
 
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Hi,

How large is your HDD and SSD by the way. Is it of the same capacity? If your system partition would be able to fit in to your SSD drive size then cloning is not a problem. You can use DriveImage XML it has a free version that supports hot image (cloning your drive while it is in use).
 
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My HDD is 1.5tb and SSD is 480GB
 
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OK I just tried thus and when disconnecting old HDD I get

"Reboot and select proper boot device
Or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"
 
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Did you change the SSD to be the first boot device in BIOS?
 
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Yes, as far as I know. The BIOs confuse me a little, but I made sure the SSD was the priority. Other options were the CD drive and MBR was on it twice, I just moved it above MBR. Old HDD wasn't an option of course. So I don't see how that could be the problem. But again, the BIOS confuse me a bit. But that screen has been my problem every time I've tried something using EaseUS.
 
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I don't think I have.
I just formatted it so I could try the program you suggested with the drive clean. 🙁
But I do see the option to mark it as active now. Never did that. That should fix the black screen on startup?

Just tried using the DiX program and it says unsuccesful after attempting the copy-to-copy. Stops at unable to retrieve drive layout.

For now going to try EaseUS again since I know that program better, will mark it as active and see what happens.
 
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You can either use which application EaseUS or DriveImage XML to clone your HDD. But just be sure to set the system/boot partition of the clone drive to Active in windows Disk Management right after cloning procedure is done. Hence, Windows will not normally boot on non-Active partitions. Good Luck
 
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Ok, the clone just finished, I went into disk managment and the option to mark the new partition as Active is greyed out.

As such, it still doesn't show it as the boot, crash dump, page file partition. It only shows it as primary. Whereas my old HDD is still the boot partition, as always. I'm assuming that's my problem and what making it active was supposed to fix.

If it helps, when I was following the steps in the article on EaseUS, running command lines to get to diskpart and trying to set is as active, It wouldn't let me do that because it wasn't MBR or something.

Also what I've determined is related to that: both of my drives use EFI partition, or something? The first program I tried was AOMEI and it was saying that it couldn't do it because it was a GPT disk (and I read something saying EFI and GPT are related). It wanted me to pay 45$ to get the premium version, and that it could do it then.

I hope all that helps, Really would like to get back to some video games over my weekend. Again, thanks for your help so far guys.
 
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Yes, when I followed the steps on the EaseUS solution, I unplugged the HDD and even move the SSD to the ports the HDD was on.
 
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[strike]Thanks for the help again, it's currently in progress. I'll reply back with any new results.[/strike]

Okay we have progress! But still not there.

I used paragon as suggested. I immediately checked to see if I could make the new SSD partition active, I cannot.

I decided to try the past methods though, I shut down, unplugged old HDD, and tried to start up with just the ssd. Changed BIOS, and I still got that "insert boot disc" error from before.

So then I put the HDD back and and set my BIOS back to normal, but when I loaded, I noticed that the SSD had been moved tot he C: drive, and my SSD now shows as the boot/crash dump partition, while my HDD is now just listed as a primary drive. So the disk managment screen looks right! But, I still can't load with jsut the SSD. And If I can't do that, I naturally don't want to convert my old drive into a full on slave drive and format it yet.

So how can I get my SSD to load on its own?
 
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