New Kingston SSD m.2 2280 not booting Windows

[edu.miguel12345]

Hello,
so I just bought a new SSD "KINGSTON - SSDNow 120GB M.2 SATA 6Gbps Single Side" for my laptop and cloned from my HDD which includes windows.

At first, the SSD didn't show up in BIOS priority options but I solved that issue by switching “Launch CSM” to Enabled and “Secure Boot Control” to Disabled.
But now when I try to boot up, it just shows "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key".

My laptop: Asus FZ50VW-56C96PB1

Maybe this SSD wasn't made to boot any OS ? Any help is appreciated.


Thanks.

 

[Tyler Paul_1]

Hi I cant imagine the ssd "wasn't made to boot os" maybe try reinstall windos using media creation then just manually move everything you want on it manually

 

[ArtPog]

1. We'll assume the HDD when it was your system's boot drive booted & functioned without any problems before you cloned its contents to your new SSD. If that's NOT the case, stop right here.

2. The TOTAL data contents on the HDD boot drive was LESS than the disk-space capacity of the Kingston SSD? What was the size of those TOTAL data contents.

3. Assuming the total data contents of the HDD could "fit" on that 120 GB SSD, after the (apparently) successful disk-cloning operation were you able to uninstall the HDD so that the SSD was the ONLY drive in the laptop when you booted to the OS?

 

[edu.miguel12345]

[UPDATE]

1. We'll assume the HDD when it was your system's boot drive booted & functioned without any problems before you cloned its contents to your new SSD. If that's NOT the case, stop right here.

2. The TOTAL data contents on the HDD boot drive was LESS than the disk-space capacity of the Kingston SSD? What was the size of those TOTAL data contents.

3. Assuming the total data contents of the HDD could "fit" on that 120 GB SSD, after the (apparently) successful disk-cloning operation were you able to uninstall the HDD so that the SSD was the ONLY drive in the laptop when you booted to the OS?

2.
Yes the data fits in the SSD. HDD has about 50GB used and the total capacity of the SSD is 120GB.

3.
Yes I made another clone (after formatting, of course) and I immediately uninstalled the HDD from the laptop. Turns out that now it shows the following error:

 

[ArtPog]

1. We'll assume, of course, that your Kingston SSD is properly connected..

2. When you boot to the OS (Win 10?) contained on the HDD and the SSD is then functioning as a secondary drive in the system, I assume you can access whatever data is on the SSD, right?

3. Just to ensure you're not dealing with a defective drive, have you checked out the health of the SSD with the Kingston SSD Toolbox? https://www.kingston.com/us/support/technical/kingston-SSD-toolbox

4. Something may have gone awry with the disk-cloning operation. What program are you using? And are you reasonably certain you're properly using it?

 

[ArtPog]

BTW, ensure the time & date function for your PC is correct. There's a strange glitch in the Windows OS that when the time/date is seriously out-of-whack an error message such as the one you rec'd is generated by the OS. I haven't come across this glitch in any Win 10 OS but it did occur in previous OSs.

It's probably not the cause of the problem you're experiencing, but I thought I'd mention it just-in-case.

 

[edu.miguel12345]

BTW, ensure the time & date function for your PC is correct. There's a strange glitch in the Windows OS that when the time/date is seriously out-of-whack an error message such as the one you rec'd is generated by the OS. I haven't come across this glitch in any Win 10 OS but it did occur in previous OSs.

It's probably not the cause of the problem you're experiencing, but I thought I'd mention it just-in-case.

Yes I could access SSD data from the HDD when i connected it back.
I suppose that the problem was with the clone operation, because it just cloned the files and not the necessary partition to make a bootable disk I guess. I used EaseUS Tool Backup.

So I didn't have much time left with this and ended up installing a clean version of Windows 10 on the SSD and copy my documents manually.
Thanks for the help though!

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