Issue booting from Samsung 870EVO Sata SSD on HP 510-p030

[NonSequitur777]

@colsar,

I have cloned more than a few Samsung SSDs myself, and honestly never had this happen to me.

No harm done if you repeat the cloning process using the Macrium Reflect Free software.

That's what I would do, come to think of it.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[colsar]

NonSequitur777 - I doubt it's a cloning issue since I can plug in the ssd via the usb adapter once I'm up and see all my files just fine. Samsung had me do a chkdsk on restart to make sure my drive was good and cloned again. Same results. It all points to a boot issue, not really a drive/data issue. I can't get to the bios unless I have the drive connected usb and it does show up in there but I'm afraid to make it the bootable device via usb since I don't want to run in on USB ongoing!

[NonSequitur777]

@colsar,

Fascinating.  The cloned Samsung SSD drive's data/OS is supposed to be a literal mirror image of the original drive: meaning, you swap drives and BIOS should simply boot from your original drive (C:) and your computer shouldn't even 'know' what happened so to speak.   Other than that you will notice significantly increased I/O speeds...

I thought of something else, though. -Back to your original boot drive.

If there are any file corruptions, you want to preventively fix them before cloning.  You also want to clean up your old drive as much as possible.

To that end, download the most useful freeware utility program "CCleaner" from here ("FREE" version): https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download.  Run "Health Check" (may have to close any running programs) and then "Make it better".

Also run CCleaner's "Registry", "Scan for Issues", "Review selected Issues", and answer "No" when it's asking to back up your registry. Then "Fix All Selected Issues", and "Close".

Next, go to "Properties" on your boot drive, and hit the "Disk Cleanup" button.  Another little dialog screen will pop up. Make sure all boxes are checked off (✔) and hit: "Clean up system files". Another little diagram screen will pop up -again, make sure all boxes are checked off, and hit: "OK".  Upon: "Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?", you hit: "Delete Files".  This may take a while.

[EDIT:] Then: type in or copy/paste: %temp% in your Windows search bar. Left-click your mouse on the %temp% file folder, click on the very first file or folder in Temp, and hold the Ctrl key plus hit the A key.  Then within the blue field, right-click your mouse and hit delete. The majority of 'temporary' files should disappear, if the system objects to any temp file deletions, you can just skip them. 

Next, make sure Windows is all updated ("Check for Updates").

Next -that is, if you haven't done so already: run CMD as administrator and copy/paste:

sfc /scannow

And Enter. May take a while to complete.

Once completed, copy/paste:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

And Enter. May take a while too to complete.

Next: restart your PC.

Try the cloning again.

Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Prométhée · Accepted solution]

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@Prométhée wrote:

hi

I had run into a problem like this..
See if it helps, I didn't re-read the whole thread.
There seems to be a problem with the bios update.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Boot-and-Lockup/HP-blocking-SSD-upgrades-with-newer-systems-an...

Several months ago, I swapped a customer's HP 260-p121nd harddrive with a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD which was working great with Windows 10.

A week ago, the customer returned; the computer had performed a biosupdate (F.34) and since then, would not start Windows anymore and got stuck displaying the HP logo at boot.

https://support.hp.com/hr-en/document/c05348560

Hamar motherboard specifications.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pavilion-510-p000-desktop-pc-series/10734566/model/11715774/...

From memory, I don't know if in the links here, but users have mentioned models that work without problems
So to see, but it may be the only solution

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@colsar  if nothing work , you can't even restart from a new windows installation:
try microsoft media

https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/software-download/windows10

I invite you to re-read the topics given, and the links included in the topics
I quickly read again and it seems that there is a problem with this motherboard, bios version, and certain SSD models

I could not read everything, and not see if a solution exists for this specific model, but it works perfectly with other models!

FrankInSF

Please see the thread in this forum called

Pavilion 510-p020 won't POST or boot with BIOS 81B4 F.37 and Samsung or Crucial SSD

for more about this and that a Kingston A400 SSD worked for me.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Boot-and-Lockup/Pavilion-510-p020-won-t-POST-or-boot-with-BIOS...

[colsar]

So, after struggling with it and trying to get the bios to work with the Samsung I gave up and got a Western Digital drive. Used their Acronis software to clone it. Unplugged my original platter sata and it booted right up on the new WD without a hitch. 

I went this route after reading Prométhée's post where this is called out: 

FrankInSF

Please see the thread in this forum called

Pavilion 510-p020 won't POST or boot with BIOS 81B4 F.37 and Samsung or Crucial SSD

for more about this and that a Kingston A400 SSD worked for me.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Boot-and-Lockup/Pavilion-510-p020-won-t-POST-or-boot-with-BIOS...