After clone to SSD....will not boot.

[mdklassen]

> through Disk Management the Windows partition on the SSD drive did not have a "boot" status.

My Windows 7 system has a 100 MB (not GB) "System Reserved" partition.

Windows starts to boot from that partition, and then finishes by booting from the Windows partition.

So, it makes sense that some "other" partition could be marked as "boot".

Can you boot from a Windows 7 original DVD disk, and run "Repair My System" ?

It should diagnose and repair any "boot" problems (i.e., 100GB partition versus large partition, or new partitions not the same size as the original partitions).

[TDOIT]

Hi,

Thanks....I understand what you're syaing but I only find it odd as in disk management I could compare the original disk to the SSD and on the orginal disk the "Windows" partition was the Boot drive as far as I can see.  I'll check again tomorrow and upload pics on here to make it clear.

Yes, I'll perhaps try the Windows 10 DVD to try to "repair my system"

Thanks

[TDOIT]

Hi,

thi morning I have done a fresh disk clone using AOMEI, I did a GPT to GPT disk clone (source orginal drive in the PC and destination SSD drive connected via USB) which seemed to complete OK.

Within Disk Management....I can confirm that none of the partitions on the destination SSD after cloning had a "boot" status like the orginal drive.

I elected to try to physical swap again anyway and delved into the BIOS which does have both UEFI and Legacy boot options.  I could confirm that the SSD drive was being at least seen by the BIOS as "SATA 0"

In order to allow the SATA 0 hard drive to be moved to the top of the boot order I had to disable Secure Boot to enable "Legacy" boot options....however, even after makini this change....the PC would not boot from SATA 0 stating no boot disk detected.  Interestingly....I had also taken a pic in the BIOS when the orginal drive was installed and that appeared as a UEFI boot drive.

Has anyone any further ideas at all?

Thanks, Tim

[TDOIT]

Hi....I forgot to mention...I did try a performing a "Repair my system" by booting from a Windows 10 DVD but that could not repair anything.

Thank you for that suggestion though.

Let me know if anyone else has any thoughts on a solution.

I have taken lots of screen pics but their too large to upload to here...I'll have to see if I can downsize them perhaps but on my previous post I have fully described the pic contents anyway.

Thanks