What to do after OS cloned to SSD?

[Chihuahua]

Good Morning,

I recently got an SSD for my laptop (Windows 8.1, upgraded from 8.0 preinstalled on laptop. This makes a reinstall close to impossible. I researched it. ) and used EaseUS Todo Backup to clone my whole HDD to my SSD (2 partitions were automatically resized to fit on the SSD), but at this point I am not sure what to do.

When I tried to boot from it from the BIOS (changed the SSD to first order, disabled fast boot. HDD still in same bay) it seems to have an 'identity crisis', because it boots, but has many glitches (explorer.exe loop crash, bitfender not functioning). It seems that it loads part of the OS from the SSD, but all links are still going to /C:, so it's not working how it should. I tried changing the drive letter, but it didn't allow me (The one time it was successful, it booted to a blank screen, after saying some programs might not function and then nothing worked). I saw someone else with the same problem, but his SSD was set as "active",while mine is not? It's still primary, and when I boot to it, disk management says its the boot drive with all bells and whistles.

So now comes the question: What do I do next? I heard someone saying that switching the physical HDD and SSD from their slots and keeping the HDD out should help, but this requires the recovery disk, which I lost and I would like to keep the HDD in my system with the OS as backup in case the SSD fails (this part is negotiable).

Lets for now say cloning the OS is not as bad as everyone says it is. If all goes wrong, I'll make a separate thread! ;-)

I appreciate any and all help!


Disk Management when booted from the HDD (C-drive):

 

[Karsten75]

It's always baffling to me why people don't provide information such as make/model of the component they're talking about. Sometime it matters.

My past Samsung and Intel SSDs came with migration utilities.

You can try to get a copy of Acronis (they have a trail period). Use that to clone the HDD to the SSD.

Failing that, your system (even Windows 8) comes with recovery software (usually in a partition) and an option to create recovery media. Use that, remove the old HDD, install the SSD and use the recovery media to re-install Windows.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

After cloning, the next step is you remove the old drive and put your SSD where the old one was. Simple as that, you don't mess with the BIOS settings, though any settings or configuration you've changed already may prevent booting from the SSD properly.

You should have posted before messing with anything trying to fix it.

 

[Chihuahua]

Luckily, there is a reset settings options in my bios. I didn't mess with anything else where the changes stayed. It's all reverted back to before messing.
And the model is Asus G75VX (I7-3630QM, GTX670MX, 16GB 1600MHZ, 750Gb HDD, 256Gb OCZ Vector)
Also, I tried the trial version of Arconis before, however, the trial version does not allow cloning (I know it works great for cloning, as I used it before once, though that was at a friends house in another country).
I'll try Phillip's method and hope I wont need to use the recovery disk. I lost it.
Thank you for the replies!

 

[Chihuahua]

Managed to get a full copy of Arconis and copied the OS to the SSD. Then all I had to do is change the boot order and it worked!
Thank you!