I bought a Samsung EVO 360 500MB SSD to replace the HDD that came with my Lenovo IdeaPad 330. I hooked the new SSD up to the laptop with a USB-SATA adapter and cloned the drive using Samsung's cloning utility. That operation completed successfully.
But before I tear into the laptop, I just want to verify that the new SSD is bootable. I figured I could just change the boot priority in the BIOS and then boot from the SSD using the USB port (I can see the SSD on the USB port in BIOS). But no matter what I do I can't get it to boot. After multiple attemps, here's the troubleshooting steps I've taken so far...please tell me if I'm missing something:
1. tested a bootable USB flash drive to make sure the Lenovo was able to boot from USB (it worked)
2. switched "Boot Mode" in BIOS from UEFI to "Legacy"
3. changed "Boot Priority" in BIOS to "Legacy First"
4. disabled "OS Optimized Defaults" in BIOS
5. re-cloned the SSD using AOEMI Backerupper
6. scanned the SSD for errors in Windows 10
7. checked the SSD in Windows Disk Manager to verify the partitions match what's on the internal HDD
Every time it simply boots from the internal HDD.
What am I missing here?
Thanks.
But before I tear into the laptop, I just want to verify that the new SSD is bootable. I figured I could just change the boot priority in the BIOS and then boot from the SSD using the USB port (I can see the SSD on the USB port in BIOS). But no matter what I do I can't get it to boot. After multiple attemps, here's the troubleshooting steps I've taken so far...please tell me if I'm missing something:
1. tested a bootable USB flash drive to make sure the Lenovo was able to boot from USB (it worked)
2. switched "Boot Mode" in BIOS from UEFI to "Legacy"
3. changed "Boot Priority" in BIOS to "Legacy First"
4. disabled "OS Optimized Defaults" in BIOS
5. re-cloned the SSD using AOEMI Backerupper
6. scanned the SSD for errors in Windows 10
7. checked the SSD in Windows Disk Manager to verify the partitions match what's on the internal HDD
Every time it simply boots from the internal HDD.
What am I missing here?
Thanks.