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‎10-23-2018 05:21 PM

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Product: ProBook 650 G1
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello,

 

I'm trying to upgrade a few ProBook 650 G1 laptops to a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD, which matches the size of the existing Windows 10 64-bit SATA drive. 

The BIOS is current (1.43) I think. 

I used the Samsung Magician utility to upgrade the SSD firmware to the current revision.

I used the Samsung Migration utility and a SATA-USB3.0 cable to copy the OS/data from the SATA drive to the SSD.

At this point I can't get the laptop to recognize the SSD as a bootable drive, the BIOS doesn't seem to recognize it at all.

If I try booting the SSD via the SATA-USB3.0 cable, it seems to see the drive but ends up with a Windows blue screen.

If I connect the SSD as a 2nd SATA drive in a desktop PC, I can see the OS and data files/folders and can see it in Windows disk management but does not show as a bootable partition. 

 

Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm missing.  Thanks.

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