SSD boot problem

[Johnny Zenith]

Hello. I am trying to clone a Samsung SSD 120gb drive to a larger Kingston 240gb drive. They are both installed in my system at the moment. This is a Windows 10 Pro system. I have cloned the drive including it's 3 partitions to the new drive and changed the boot order. However I now cannot format the old Windows C: Drive/Samsung SSD. Windows 10 will not allow it. I checked the boot order and it definitely has the new SSD as top priority. What am I doing wrong?! Do I need to disconnect the old drive first? I am loathed to open the case again.



Thank you for your help. I used Macrium cloning.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management ? (when system is booted from new drive)

 

[Rdslw]

Go to bios and disable old SSD. If windows will boot then we will have 100% that migration is complete.
then (activate old ssd again), you can use disc management to remove partitions (not format them) and recreate that ssd from scratch

 

[Johnny Zenith]

Thank you to both of you. As soon as I get home I will try to disable the old SSD. If no success I will post the screenshot as advised. Thanks.

 

[Johnny Zenith]

Go to bios and disable old SSD. If windows will boot then we will have 100% that migration is complete.
then (activate old ssd again), you can use disc management to remove partitions (not format them) and recreate that ssd from scratch

Is it easy to disable the SSD? I hope I have the option on my Gigabit motherboard.

 

[Johnny Zenith]

Can you post screenshot from Disk Management ? (when system is booted from new drive)

 

[Johnny Zenith]

Go to bios and disable old SSD. If windows will boot then we will have 100% that migration is complete.
then (activate old ssd again), you can use disc management to remove partitions (not format them) and recreate that ssd from scratch

Does not work. The drive does not boot after disabling the old drive.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Well - you can see, that partition config is wrong there.
You have booted from 120GB drive (disk 2) - since System Reserved partition reads "System" and C: on disk 2 reads "Boot".

To correct this -

• you have to make "System Reserved" partition on disk 0 active, fix bootloader on disk 0
  (Here's, how to do that with diskpart. Execute from elevated command prompt.):
  • diskpart
    list disk
    select disk 0
    list partition
    select partition 1
    active
    assign letter=h
    exit
    bcdboot f:\windows /s h:
  change boot sequence in BIOS to boot from 240GB drive and disable sata port, where 120GB drive is connected.

Reboot and done.
Now System Reserved on disk 0 should read "Active,System" and C: partition should be on disk 0 and read "Boot".

 

[Johnny Zenith]

where do I type in the bcdboot f: line? As I have already exited. Thanks by the way.

 

[SkyNetRising]

In elevated command prompt window -
right click on start button and choose "Command Prompt(Admin)".

 

[Johnny Zenith]

Thank you. That seems to have worked. I have re-enabled the old drive so I guess I just format that now? I noticed that on boot in was offered the choice of booting from vol 2 Windows or vol 6. I choose the first which is the new drive. I guess this will disappear when the old drive is formatted? Thanks a lot.

 

[SkyNetRising]

If everything is fine, then just delete all partitions on the old drive, create single big partition and format it.
After that you can delete old boot entry from bootloader with msconfig (boot section).

 

[Johnny Zenith]

It seems that everything is okay and I will keep an eye on it. Thank you very much for your help. It's been a learning experience. If anything goes wrong i'll have to come back but for now it's fine. Thanks again,