Hi,
I just migrated my HDD to a Samsung SSD (EVO 850) using Samsung Data Migration software, however the SSD is not correctly detected by the BIOS and cannot be booted from.
My desktop system has three SATA connectors.
Prior/during migration:
SATA0 was used to connect the HDD prior migration
SATA1 is used to connect the optical drive (CD/DVD) - mentioned just for sake of completeness
SATA2 was used to connect the target SSD disk while migrating
After migration:
If I swap the SATA 0 and 2 connectors, with intention to boot from the SDD then the BIOS complains about no drive found. Same if I disconnect the HDD and only have the SSD connected to SATA0
If I revert to the orginal connections, SATA0 connected to HDD and and SATA2 to SSD then the system starts as before (i.e. booting from the HDD). In Windows the following drives are listed:
C: OS
D: Optical drive
E: <empty!>
F: OS (with what looks like the same contents as the HDD C: without the files that are not migrated e.g. memory page file)
What is this E: drive? Is it a partition on the SSD that somehow was created during migration? Do I need to get rid of it/delete it to be able to boot from the SSD? How?
Thank you.
I just migrated my HDD to a Samsung SSD (EVO 850) using Samsung Data Migration software, however the SSD is not correctly detected by the BIOS and cannot be booted from.
My desktop system has three SATA connectors.
Prior/during migration:
SATA0 was used to connect the HDD prior migration
SATA1 is used to connect the optical drive (CD/DVD) - mentioned just for sake of completeness
SATA2 was used to connect the target SSD disk while migrating
After migration:
If I swap the SATA 0 and 2 connectors, with intention to boot from the SDD then the BIOS complains about no drive found. Same if I disconnect the HDD and only have the SSD connected to SATA0
If I revert to the orginal connections, SATA0 connected to HDD and and SATA2 to SSD then the system starts as before (i.e. booting from the HDD). In Windows the following drives are listed:
C: OS
D: Optical drive
E: <empty!>
F: OS (with what looks like the same contents as the HDD C: without the files that are not migrated e.g. memory page file)
What is this E: drive? Is it a partition on the SSD that somehow was created during migration? Do I need to get rid of it/delete it to be able to boot from the SSD? How?
Thank you.