Can not boot from SSD after install Envy 17

[SvenReindl]

Hello forum,

I followed these cloning steps too.

I have HP ENVY TS m7 Notebook PC. Comes with 1TB Hard drive and second empty slot, so I bought 240GB SSD (Crucial BX200 2.5 inch). The ssd reads fine, as you can see with the screenshots.

 

I cloned the whole ( C: ) drive in order to boot from the SSD rather than HDD. and in folder it looks fine.

Once I remove the original HDD to boot from the SSD it doesn't boot from it and gives me this message. 

Is there anything I'm doing wrong? I realized that the SSD is not recognized as MBR but GPT instead. Is that the issue? 

some additional screenwshots might help to solve my issue. Hopefully! 

thanks ! 

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@SvenReindl

The problem is you have no BOOT partition on the SSD and you need that.

While you could try reusing MR to drag the EFI partition onto the empty place at the beginning of the SSD, that might not work.

What I would do is the following:

1) Reboot the PC from your existing drive

2) Shrink the C: partition down to 200GB.  If you can't do that in Disk Management, then download and install this partitioning tool and use it:  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

3) Open MR and select the option to Clone the drive, but when the display opens with the two drive, make sure that only the first 4 partitions are being copied to the SSD.  You don't need the Recovery partitions, as they will not work with a smaller drive, anyway.

4) When the partition migration is done, remove the HDD, plus the SSD in where the HDD is now, and reboot

The PC should reboot without issue -- as the other partitions are also now on the SSD.

Good Luck

[SvenReindl]

Thanks Dean!

All worked and that made my weekend!! 

thanks