Windows no longer recognizes ssd as boot.

[mangaman]

Hello everyone, I’m new to Toms hardware so I’m not sure if I’m posting this in the right area. Anyway, recently, I cloned my hard drive to my new 240GB SanDisk ssd to get better boot performance and shorter loading times. After cloning, everything worked fine on the SSD. I went into msconfig under the general tab and clicked on Normal Startup. Before it was selected as Selective startup for load stystem services and load startup items. After restarting my computer, windows then booted to my old hdd. I tried system restore but I keep getting windows restore error code 0x80070490. I also went into msconfig and tried using the selective startup option as before but no luck. Not only that, but I also tried physically taking out my hdd and just living my ssd in my computer to see what happens but windows keeps saying that there is not an OS on the ssd. Files, saves, games and everything else in the ssd are unaffected. Any idea on how I can get my ssd as a boot drive again?

 

[puttynene]

Is ssd the primary boot drive and is it plugged into SATA-0? the mother board wont recognize it as primary device. if you can set primary ssd as the main boot, then go into the bios

See if this helps...

 

[mangaman]

I set it as a primary drive and now windows is saying " windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause". I could fix this if I had a copy of windows 7 home premium laying around so I could do a startup repair but unfortunately I don't. I'll be getting a new computer soon so, as long as my old computer can still boot to the old hdd and all my files on the ssd are unaffected I'll be fine. Thanks for the feedback though, I appreciate it.