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‎09-21-2022 02:54 PM - edited ‎09-21-2022 02:55 PM

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Product: Pavilion DV7-6123cl
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I've cloned a HP Pavilion DV7-6123cl Win10 laptop 500GB HD to a 500GB SSD using Easeus Disk Copy Pro (paid version), per the directions, autosized, SSD target selected. The source is initialized MBR and the destination is GPT. The copy completes sucessfully. When I swap drives, the laptop says no bootable device found.
The BIOS setup in the HP laptop is very crude. There are no settings for drive or boot parameters, e.g., UEFI, other than boot order. Is it possible only MBR drives will boot on this laptop? Is a BIOS update needed for GPT to work? The version shows as Insyde F.1A, setup v3.5.  The HP Support website after performing an ID scan says it can't find any driver updates for the laptop so nothing is offered.

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‎09-21-2022 03:54 PM

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Hi:

 

You need to format the new drive you cloned to as MBR, so the source is MBR, and the destination is MBR.

 

You can't clone a MBR-formatted drive to a GPT-formatted drive.

 

If your notebook has a UEFI BIOS you can clean install W10 in EFI mode.

 

You do that by booting from the EFI USB flash drive, not the legacy one.

 

If you do not see any EFI boot sources, you can only install W10 in legacy mode on a MBR drive.

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