New HDD, might need a lot of help

[ThePickleKing1111]

I have an old 250gb hard drive that I use, and I finally decided to get a 3tb 7200 rpm HDD. I have the ability to plug in both because of this long cable with multiple sata power outlets, and I have some cords I bought for the sata to connect to my mobo - Asus P6T7 WS SuperComputer.

What I'm trying to do is clone I guess all of my old HDD to my new one.
I'm going to probably need a bit of help.

• The first issue I have, is that when I plug both hard drives in at once, not touching anything else, and boot up, my computer starts up then gives me the "Reboot and Select proper Boot Device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key." I have no idea where to go from this point.

If anybody could let me talk to them here or in discord that would be great, because I've been looking on YouTube for how to do this but I can't even get them to plug in and start correctly?

Thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

1st - set boot priority in BIOS correctly. When you add additional drive, boot priority can change.
2nd - to use all the capacity of your 3TB drive, it needs to be partitioned in GPT format.
If your original 250GB drive is partitioned in MBR format, then you'll have 2 options:
a) clone 250GB to 3TB in MBR format, but you'll loose storage capacity of your new drive. Only 2TB will be available.
b) clone in GPT format, all the capacity will be available, but your system will not boot from new drive anymore. Basically you'll have to reinstall OS in UEFI mode.

If your original drive already is in GPT partition format, only then you can clone without any problems.

 

[ThePickleKing1111]

Alright, I just changed the Boot priority.
(edit: didn't work, gonna mess around with what my HDD is recognized as/change device priority more until it works)(edit2: I disabled everything but my hard drive, and then saved, turned off, plugged in new hard drive too, tried to boot, same select proper boot device error showing up)

I have no clue about hard drives to begin with, I've downloaded this program called Reflect which might be ok, but I do not know what GPT, or MBR format means. Primarily, I don't know anything about formatting or partitions.

 

[SkyNetRising]

same select proper boot device error showing up)

Can you post screenshots from BIOS boot priority settings and Macrium Reflect?

 

[ThePickleKing1111]

Yes I am able to boot when I use my original configuration. I've tried booting with and without my new HDD multiple times. It keeps booting normally when I have my original config, when I use the two hard drives, it shows me that message.

After I've tested running both at the same time, and then I revert to my original setup, the BIOS boot priority setting is the same.

I'm not yet onto running the cloning software, I simply downloaded it and ran it to see.

I have no way of sending those images atm, I'll be back at the computer tomorrow, maybe in 15 hours from now.