Problem upgrading from a small SSD to a larger SSHD

[covi2955]

I am replacing an ssd in my desktop with a new sshd, but I'm having weird problems.
To start with, the desktop has 2 current hard drives, a 60gb ssd (used for OS, is now too small so it's being replaced) and a 2 TB HDD. The HDD has the OS recovery partition since I didn't want to waste my extremely limited SSD space.

When I clone the SSD onto the SSHD and then replace the SSD with it, I get a blue screen saying important hardware is missing.

When I format the SSHD to do a clean install of windows 10 on it I get the exact same blue screen.

I figured that it must be freaking out about the recovery partition, so I decided to unplug the HDD (I can go back and format it later if I have to).

If I unplug the HDD, and try to do a clean install of windows 10 it will enter the setup, but then will reach a page where it says that an important media device driver is missing.

I'm pretty sure (after over a week of fiddling) that the driver message is about the SSHD (since I can't continue with the install regardless of whether I use a DVD or bootable flash drive). However the computer reads the SSHD just fine when I've got it booted in windows to clone to the SSHD.

I have no idea what to do at this point. How can I replace my small SSD with this new SSHD? I don't care if I have to format everything at this point, I just need it to work.


For just a little more information, the SSHD is a Seagate 1TB laptop SSHD.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or replies.

 

[kemperkipie]

Just a thought:
It is possible to put some drivers on your USB when you install Windows, maybe you have to add some drivers of this SSHD and use this while installing Windows on this drive.

You might also look for your BIOS Settings, make sure your storage controller is set to AHCI, and check wheter you can boot the USB with UEFI boot settings, so it will load your standard drivers from the UEFI BIOS (also dependant on the age of the laptop, most laptops since Windows 8 support this).

 

[covi2955]

I finally fixed this today. For anyone else having a similar problem I will post what I was able to do. The new drive was a seagate hybrid, the old was a pyro ssd.

I had been using the really popular/free cloning software EaseUs (http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/index.htm). I had used it in the past without any problems. I do suggest it if you aren't having this problem as it is very effective, fast, and very easy to use. However, just for the heck of it (since I had nothing to lose at this point) I decided to see if seagate had anything. I found their driver cloning software Disk, DiscWizard (http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/discwizard/).

It worked a little differently in that after I selected which drive to clone it restarted the computer into its own weird boot program. After the cloning was done it restarted again, then told me that I had a bad BootMgr file. I unplugged the old hard drive and booted to a windows recovery disk I have. I had it run repairs (which took it half a second then it restarted and I thought I saw a momentary blue screen), then it booted up normally and is working fine.

So my suggestion if you are having weird cloning issues, check the manufacturer's website for cloning software. If they make hard drives they probably make tools for cloning to them.