SSD not booting windows 10

cdsmith20

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Jan 15, 2017
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Hello,
I just bought a new toshiba ssd from microcenter because my old HDD was not cutting it anymore. I cloned my HDD to the SSD and I took the HDD out of my computer. But when I tried to book form the SSD it gave me the message "No bootable device found" I went into the BIOS and found that the SSD was there and I set it as being first to be looked at for the boot but it still does not work, very frustrated and i've look almost everywhere and still nothing.
Any and all help will be appreciated
 
We'll assume that when you mentioned your "old HDD was not cutting it anymore", you were referring to the fact that your HDD boot drive had the "slows". But that it boots and functions without problems. No problems with the functioning of the HDD, right?

Assuming that's so...when you boot to the HDD with the SSD connected as a secondary drive and access Disk Management...
1. Is the SSD listed in Disk Management? If so, and if it doesn't have a drive letter assigned to it, assign one, OK?

2. Looking at the schematic of the SSD does it possibly appear to be a clone of the HDD boot drive in that whatever partitioning scheme is on the HDD seems to have also been created on the SSD?

3. I assume there's a System Reserved partition on the HDD. Is there also one on the SSD?

4. With the HDD and cloned SSD connected in the system can you boot to the Win 10 OS using the SSD as the boot drive?