Why does my SSD have 2 disks?

[rearadmiralryan]

So my BIOS is set to AHCI, and i cloned my disk using samsung cloning manager, but it made 2 disks from the SSD, disk E which has 99.99 mb and is almost full, and all it has in it is Boot, this disk doesn't show up in bios, and the other disk, F has 111Gb and has all the cloned stuff except that Boot folder, even when i copy the boot folder in disk F the bios still cant boot from it because it says /boot/btc is missing. Why did it give me 2 separate disks, and how do i fix it?

 

[avjguy2362]

It's supposed to have the separate boot partition. It is effectively a hidden system boot partition. The only problem is that there shouldn't be separate E and F partitions. Did you remove the original drive? Did the original drive have the the boot letter as F and not C?
I have a Samsung 830 and cloned it from a WD raptor HD with Macrium Reflect and it did the same as yours, except my original HD was the C drive with the OS and when cloned I had a C drive ( the Samsung 830 ) with 2 partitions, but the "System Reserved" 100 MB partition does not have a drive letter.
Why don't you try it again with Macriums' software, it's free, and see if that doesn't work for you. It is very easy and doesn't require you do anything except identify the original drive, check on "Clone this drive" and choose the destination drive then start. When it is done, shut down, take out the old drive and start up the system. Go to the BIOS and make sure the SSD is in the boot order, restart and everything should be good.

 

[ian77ex]

The disk You're about to replace (the old one) has two partitions. First is a 100MB reserved system partition that was made by Win7 the day you installed it a few months/years ago. That partition is hidden, no letter was assigned to it and you never noticed it was there. The second partition is your C: Drive.

When you cloned the drive both partitions appeared in the new drive with the new letters. That's normal. Use a drive partition utility like Acronis to set the new 100MB partition (in the ssd) as "ACTIVE". Restart the PC into the BIOS setup. Change the boot settings to the new drive (or just disconnect the old drive) and your system should boot from the SSD.

 

[rearadmiralryan]

i have windows 8 and Acronis does not support windows 8/8.1 so any others? thanks for the explanation though, i get it now

 

[rearadmiralryan]

i have found a program that works on windows 8, easeUS but how do i go about activating it? i can merge them, should i merge?

 

[popatim]

You already have an existing thread for the issue you are having and the 'WHY" question has been answered. I'm closing this thread.

Please post any new or relevant information in your existing thread.

Thank you.