I got an SSD, migrated what I wanted on it from HDD, but cant get my pc to boot from...

[Michael Liverani]

I got an SSD, migrated what I wanted on it from HDD, but cant get my pc to boot from SSD. Ive tried a bunch of things but nothing worked. Does anyone know why?

 

[Timmy Smithers]

Google

 

[Drew Leonard]

did you change boot order so the bios isnt looking for the old drive?

 

[Brandon Wassmer]

its not connected, either by failure or by disconnected cables

 

[Dustin Chiarini]

Jason, would you mind giving my buddy here a hand with this?

 

[Brandon Wassmer]

can you test it on another machine?

 

[Brandon Wassmer]

sata, power, formatted drive, all result in non read

 

[Brandon Wassmer]

also check your mobo sata, swap the ports

 

[Brandon Wassmer]

see if you have a port failure

 

[Michael Liverani]

Its plugged in i can see it in device config but in the boot order it only shows windows boot manager, usb hard drive and usb floppy/cd

 

[Brandon Wassmer]

possibly not configured properly, give it a format and migrate again

 

[Brandon Wassmer]

okay wait back up waaaaay back, is your pc compatable?

 

[Braedan McNicol]

How did you migrate the data?

 

[Samuel Joseph Cooper]

If it’s a SATA ssd, sometimes trying out swapping it to the primary connection (likely the one your hdd is using) works. Don’t ask why - but it worked for me lol

 

[Khyle Ashton]

When setting up my m.2 960 evo I had to disconnect my hdd for it to recognise the m.2 as a boot drive, not sure if it's the same for standard ssd's but might be worth a shot if you havent tried already

 

[Khyle Ashton]

You got it sorted nevermind haha, just read the comment higher up

 

[Tim Simmons]

Probably need a bios flash. That happened to me.

 

[Jason Dudek]

Did you clone the HDD or just copy files? If all you did was copy files then you didn't copy the boot sector which tells the bios there is an OS here. My recommendation is to die fresh installation of Windows on the SSD. Use the old HDD to store music and videos (and porn) as well as non-critical stuff like documents and only use the SSD for Programs and Windows.

 

[Tony Grandoff]

Did you install a copy of an OS on it?