[SOLVED] Is my motherboard able to boot to SATA 3?

[MrDesiredJourney]

Hello, I am in great need of assistance because I can not boot to my ssd without an error message regarding, "Reboot and select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device."

Here is my situation:
I had cloned everything from my hard drive into my ssd and changed the boot order to boot to the ssd. I have snooped around my motherboard specifications and found that it says "Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks." My ssd is SATA 3 so I do not know if I have to buy another ssd. My ssd model number is WDS500G2B0B. My motherboard is a ASRock B550M Pro4.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[OrlyP]

Any motherboard supports booting from SATA. My concern is the quality of the clone.

Did you make a 1:1 disk image clone? Or did you just clone a partition?

 

[MrDesiredJourney]

Any motherboard supports booting from SATA. My concern is the quality of the clone.

Did you make a 1:1 disk image clone? Or did you just clone a partition?

I tried to clone my hard drive to my ssd all at once, but it didn't work. I used Macrium Reflect to do the first 3 partitions and used Easeus software to clone my main partition to the ssd, then I used the same software to do the last partition. Both software failed to fully copy and clone all these partitions on a single try.

 

[USAFRet]

I tried to clone my hard drive to my ssd all at once, but it didn't work. I used Macrium Reflect to do the first 3 partitions and used Easeus software to clone my main partition to the ssd, then I used the same software to do the last partition. Both software failed to fully copy and clone all these partitions on a single try.

Return the system back to original operating config, and show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

What size is the new SSD?
How much space is consumed on your current C drive?



"Both software failed to fully copy and clone all these partitions on a single try."
Something is not quite right.

 

[MrDesiredJourney]

Return the system back to original operating config, and show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

What size is the new SSD?
How much space is consumed on your current C drive?



"Both software failed to fully copy and clone all these partitions on a single try."
Something is not quite right.

I have changed boot settings to what it was before I changed them.
I am not able to take a screen shot and upload it due to my network adapter being unresponsive (on laptop right now). However, everything looks exactly the same for the hard drive and ssd, except that the main partition for the ssd only has the characteristic "Healthy (Basic Data Partition)." While the hard drive has many things. Everything else looks fine.
The ssd has 465.75 GB.
The hard drive has been filled up 240 GB, it is 930 GB big.
All hard drive partitions fit inside the ssd.

 

[OrlyP]

I've had great success using Acronis True Image... considering that it's just the OEM/Free version that came with my new SSD and NVMe drive.

Check if your new SSD included Acronis (most do). And then, if you can still boot from the old drive, install Acronis there and redo the cloning.

Windows is finicky with partitions and if you cloned it the wrong way, will fail to boot.

 

[USAFRet]

I have changed boot settings to what it was before I changed them.
I am not able to take a screen shot and upload it due to my network adapter being unresponsive (on laptop right now). However, everything looks exactly the same for the hard drive and ssd, except that the main partition for the ssd only has the characteristic "Healthy (Basic Data Partition)." While the hard drive has many things. Everything else looks fine.
The ssd has 465.75 GB.
The hard drive has been filled up 240 GB, it is 930 GB big.
All hard drive partitions fit inside the ssd.

A screencap of your Disk Management window would really help.

What is the make/model of the SSD?

240GB consumed and a 500GB target SSD...there should be no problem doing this.

 

[MrDesiredJourney]

A screencap of your Disk Management window would really help.

What is the make/model of the SSD?

240GB consumed and a 500GB target SSD...there should be no problem doing this.

I have gotten my network adapter to work for a couple of minutes. Here is the screen capture of my disk management
The model of my ssd is: WDS500G2B0B

 

[USAFRet]

I have gotten my network adapter to work for a couple of minutes. Here is the screen capture of my disk management
The model of my ssd is: WDS500G2B0B

Disk 1 is the new drive (500GB), and Disk 0 (1TB) is the old?
Why are both in there?

After a clone operation, you MUST power off, disconnect the old, and attempt to power up with only the NEW drive. That is the very first step you do.




Specifically:

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specifiy the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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