Issues after cloning hdd to ssd.

[mathiaskulbotten4]

I recently installed a new samsung evo 850, and cloned my hdd to the new ssd. I had very little problems before this, but now I'm experiencing blue-screens, game crashes and other annoying problems.
I tried resetting my pc but got and error message:
"couldn't find the recovery environment".
When I cloned my hdd to my ssd, I used two different softwares. I canceled the first one while it was cloning, because I realised Samsung had its own software. I then used samsungs own software to clone. I'm guessing this is where things went wrong.
I would highly appreciate some help.
Specs:
Old HDD: Samsung 1tb.
New SSD: Samsung EVO 850 500GB.
GTX 950
AMD fx-6300
8GB ram
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P

 

[Darkbreeze]

Start fresh. At this point it's probably ridiculous to even try and assume to know exactly what, or how, things went wrong.

Since you have two drives, hopefully, with your data on it, you don't stand any chance of losing that data so you can retrieve whatever is irreplaceable after you have a functional OS.

Couple of questions first though.

If you remove the SSD and reconnect the HDD, will it still boot normally?

Did you disconnect the HDD COMPLETELY from the system, when trying to boot from the SSD?

If you need to do a clean install, which is probably a good idea anyhow because many of the OS and registry settings need to be changed based on the kind of storage media you have installed, and a slew of other factors, you can do so by following the tutorial below. In any and all cases, keep the HDD disconnected while you are doing this to avoid accidentally doing something that would cause you to lose the information on that drive.

It is important to follow the steps EXACTLY as outlined. Do not deviate from them in any way if possible. I'm assuming you have Windows 10. If you have 7 or 8.1 I will link separate tutorials as the steps have some minor differences.

Windows 10 Clean install tutorial

 

[ArtPog]

1. Choosing to "start fresh" as darkbreeze recommends is ALWAYS an option.

However...

2. You haven't made it clear whether the problems you're experiencing occur when the SSD drive that was the recipient of the cloned contents of the HDD boot drive is currently in use as the boot drive.

3. If your HDD currently boots & functions without problems when it is connected as the sole drive in the system...you may want to consider simply repeating the disk-cloning operation. There would be no need to manipulate any of the data on the current SSD; just install it in the system as the destination drive for the cloned contents of the HDD.

4. Just ensure you're properly using the SDM program and after the d-c operation apparently successfully completes, DISCONNECT THE HDD FROM THE SYSTEM BEFORE INITIALLY BOOTING TO THE NEWLY-CLONED SSD. Capiche?

5. Also, while not critical, it's a good idea to connect the SSD to the motherboard's first SATA data port (connector) - usually designated SATA0 or SATA1.

6. Assuming a successful boot & functioning of the SSD, reconnect the HDD as a secondary drive in the system. And check the BIOS boot priority order to determine the SSD is first in boot priority.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Followed by getting rid of the hidden boot partition on the HDD, so it does not compete for attention with the one on the SSD.