"Reboot and select proper boot device" after cloning SSD (Windows 7)

[itm]

I am running Windows 7 from an SSD on an Asus P8Z68-VLX motherboard. I wanted to upgrade to a larger SSD, so I cloned the boot drive SSD (C to a larger SSD using EaseUS Todo Backup Free. After cloning I used Windows Disk Management to extend the new partition so that it used all of the available space on the new SSD.
I replaced the old SSD with the new one in the machine, then went into the BIOS and made the new SSD the first boot device. When I reboot I get: "Reboot and select proper boot device" however.
Any ideas?

 

[ss202sl]

Did you only clone the C drive, or the whole drive? There is a hidden boot partition that also needs to be cloned to the new drive.

 

[itm]

Yes I selected the drive ("hard disk 4"). In any case I've just retried the cloning process and this time it rebooted before doing the clone - an encouraging sign. I took the opportunity of adding a new PCI card to the machine before rebooting with the new SSD. Now I still can't reboot, but the error is different: "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause".
Presuming the new PCI card to be the problem, I removed it and tried again - same error. It wouldn't even boot to the Windows installation CD.
Any idea how to get around this new problem?

 

[ss202sl]

How many drives are in your system? When you installed the OS onto the first SSD, was the SSD the only drive in the system, or was there also a HDD installed? It seems like there is a boot partition somewhere else than the SSD(a different drive - maybe HDD).

If you want to install a new install of windows on the new SSD, then disconnect all the other HDD's and only connect the ssd(and dvd drive). You may need to set the boot order to boot to cd(dvd) first. Once windows is installed and you can boot to the ssd(it should be set as boot drive), then you can connect the other drives.

The PCI card is a different issue, and you should work on 1 thing at a time. If you want to start with a new OS, then put the pci card in, but if you're still working to get the cloned image working, then get it to boot correctly before introducing the new pci card into the mix.

 

[ArtPog]

Assuming your source drive boots without incident and is completely functional the likelihood is it's a bad clone, i.e., for one reason or another the disk-cloning operation went awry. I assume you've tried the cloning process multiple times with the same results.

Let me suggest another disk-cloning program you can try. The Casper 8 program. It's a commercial product having a cost of $49.99 however there's a 30-day trial version (slightly crippled) that you can try to see if it meets your needs. It's available at http://www.fssdev.com

I've been using this program for more than 10 years now having performed disk-cloning operations more than a thousand times. It's truly a wonderful program and I highly recommend it for a variety of reasons, chiefly its consistent effectiveness and fast cloning speed.

 

[itm]

Looks like it was a bad clone - I repeated the process, and this time it prompted me to reboot before it started (which made more sense as I was cloning the boot drive). This time it booted fine. Thanks for all the feedback.