Need help setting up my laptop's new SSD please!

[ACKenway]

So I recently bought a Samsung EVO 850 and I have transferred everything in my HDD to it using Samsung's Data Migration software. After doing so, I swapped out my HDD for the SSD (now connected via my laptop's SATA 3 port) and then removed my optical drive to put in my HDD caddy (so I can keep my HDD).

I then went to disk management to set my SSD to "online" and when I restarted my laptop, it was still as slow as booting up from my HDD, which leads me to believe that my HDD is the primary option for booting up my laptop.

I tried going into BIOS and switching the SSD to the first priority and my HDD as the second, but when I save and restart my laptop, when I get to the "enter password" screen, even though I have control of my cursor, I cannot type or click anything on the screen. I've tried restarting multiple times, but I kept getting the same result. In order to get back to being able to use my laptop, I had to switch the HDD back to 1st priority in booting.

What am I doing wrong, and what can I do to fix this? I can provide additional information if necessary towards resolving this issue. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Shaun o]

Oh dear,

You have fallen into a trap.
If when you boot the laptop it requires you to enter a password, before booting of the os on the hard drive.

The problem is that the password is stored on the old Hdd.
Also the bios of the laptop will be set to recognise the hard drive that was originally in the laptop.
It would of also stored the model and serial number of that mechanical hard drive, as the working os drive.

What you need to do if the case.

Is enter the bios of the laptop.
If you have a password setup for locking out the HD.

You need to put in your password used.
When it asks for a new password leave the new password field blank. in the single field or two that may be required.
This will disable password protection checking for hard drives.


And by the looks of it is part of the problem.
Once the password security for the hard drive is cleared. or disabled in the bios of the laptop.
Save the changes before you exit the bios.

Next time you restart windows should load.

Also don`t forget that the existing hard drive will be set as volume or drive C:
So when you get into windows from booting from the SSD make sure you change the drive letter of the old drive to another drive letter assignment. Using windows disk management .

Two drives with the same drive letter cannot co exist in windows, the result is one will fail to show in windows explorer.
It is also the reason even though you have an SSD drive as to why it is slow at booting or loading, even if in the bios you have set the first boot device to be the SSD drive with the cloned os on it.

Also you need to check what the Sata interface mode is set to in the laptops bios.
Ahci mode should be set for the sata interface mode, just double check.

 

[Spectre694]

Did you try booting without the HDD present?

EDIT: may have misread. Is it the BIOS password or windows login password?

 

[Shaun o]

I think it could be a bios hard drive locking password to prevent booting from the device.
But the slow down and conflict if he is getting to the windows login password is the fact he has cloned the drive and two C: drives exist.
So he will have to force the old mechanical hard drive to a different hard drive letter assignment.

Windows is having a fit due to two C: drive letter volumes existing.
Remember he cloned the existing drive so both the SSD and the old mechanical drive are C:

ACKenway the problem is out of one of the two solutions provided.

 

[cpatel1987]

So I recently bought a Samsung EVO 850 and I have transferred everything in my HDD to it using Samsung's Data Migration software. After doing so, I swapped out my HDD for the SSD (now connected via my laptop's SATA 3 port) and then removed my optical drive to put in my HDD caddy (so I can keep my HDD).

I then went to disk management to set my SSD to "online" and when I restarted my laptop, it was still as slow as booting up from my HDD, which leads me to believe that my HDD is the primary option for booting up my laptop.

I tried going into BIOS and switching the SSD to the first priority and my HDD as the second, but when I save and restart my laptop, when I get to the "enter password" screen, even though I have control of my cursor, I cannot type or click anything on the screen. I've tried restarting multiple times, but I kept getting the same result. In order to get back to being able to use my laptop, I had to switch the HDD back to 1st priority in booting.

What am I doing wrong, and what can I do to fix this? I can provide additional information if necessary towards resolving this issue. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

1) Try booting first without the HDD and only the SSD in the computer, verify that works. If it doesn't, something went wrong with the cloning process.

2) Find a way to wipe the HDD prior to plugging it back in. There's no use having 2 identical drives in a computer that I can think of. You can use a program like DBAN if you don't have a SATA to USB adapter or a HDD dock handy, will need to boot from the DBAN disk, then wipe the drive.

 

[ACKenway]

Oh dear,

You have fallen into a trap.
If when you boot the laptop it requires you to enter a password, before booting of the os on the hard drive.

Did you try booting without the HDD present?

EDIT: may have misread. Is it the BIOS password or windows login password?

Thanks for the responses everyone!

Apologies, I should have specified that it is the windows login password screen where I cannot continue further after setting my SSD as option 1 in the boot menu. This is an example of the screen I'm talking about in case it's still not clear: http://content.gcflearnfree.org/topics/257/start_signin.jpg. If I'm seeing this, then I assume Windows has loaded, right?

As for the two C: drives, I'm not sure if that's the case because when I set the SSD to "online" through disk management, it assigned the SSD to the letter (H: ).

I'll try booting my laptop up without the HDD once I get off of work and see if it works.

Update #1:
Ok so after testing to see if my laptop would boot up w/o the HDD in, I can confirm that it does not. I get stuck on a black screen with ASUS's logo and a never ending spinning circle, so I'm guessing something did indeed go wrong with the cloning process.. I'm going to wipe the SSD and try again and come back with another update.

Update #2:
Reformatted the SSD, cloned it again with the data migration software, inserted the SSD into my SATA 3 port, removed the HDD completely, and booted it. It works now!! Had to connect my HDD via a SATA-to-USB cable to change its drive letter for it to work simultaneously with the SSD w/o being the one the laptop used to boot up.

I want to extend another thank you to everyone in this forum! The advice I gathered from everyone helped me resolve my issue, but unfortunately I could only choose one solution. You all are amazing people, and thank you so so much for the help!