Question Want to change boot drive from hdd to ssd i cloned the partition and changed boot priority but it is still showing that the boot drive is C drive

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You did not clone properly.
You need the two leftmost partitions from the Disk 0.

However....cloning that into the 256GB Disk 1 takes that right up to the edge of Too Full.
It will work, but you'll have basically no free space to work with.


Does the system run properly with the new Disk 1 disconnected?
If so, redo the clone.

Just like this...

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung target SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up

Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected.
If not, we have to fix that first.

Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive. In your case, don't select the E partition.

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specify the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
[/end ignore]

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD

(swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part)
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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USAFRet said:
You did not clone properly.
You need the two leftmost partitions from the Disk 0.

However....cloning that into the 256GB Disk 1 takes that right up to the edge of Too Full.
It will work, but you'll have basically no free space to work with.


Does the system run properly with the new Disk 1 disconnected?
If so, redo the clone.

Just like this...

-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung target SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up

Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected.
If not, we have to fix that first.

Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive. In your case, don't select the E partition.

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specify the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
[/end ignore]

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD

(swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part)
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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So i removed the hdd's sata cable and booted from the ssd but it was saying no bootable drive detected
 
Aneesh_001 said:
So i removed the hdd's sata cable and booted from the ssd but it was saying no bootable drive detected
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Redo cloning.
You have it cloned wrong.

You have to clone F: and C: partitions to new drive.
They have to be primary partitions ( not logical drives in extended partition - as it is currently).
After that there will be other necessary actions to do:
bootloader partition needs to be set active,​
bootloader will need to be recreated with bcdboot command.​
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Redo cloning first. Then we'll help with rest.
 
Aneesh_001 said:
should i format the new ssd? and do it again please contact me through discord aneesh_
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1. Clean target drive. Delete all partitions from it. It should all be Unallocated (black color in Disk Management).
2. Clone F: partition to target drive (new drive letter H: ) - should be dark blue in Disk Management.
3. Clone C: partition to target drive (new drive letter J: ) - should be dark blue in Disk Management.
4. Set cloned 100MB partition (H: )to active.
5. Execute from elevated command prompt
bcdboot J:\windows /s H:​
Last message should be "Boot files created successfully".
6. Shutdown,
disconnect old drive physically and
boot from new drive into windows.

Only after this is done successfully, you can reconnect old drive.
 
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ok everything is working now but it seems that my graphics card is not booting i have to use my internal graphic to log in
 
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