Windows 10: can't get PC to boot from newly installed SSD

Installed SSD and copied boot HDD image with ' true. image ' which seemed to work perfectly...
Tried to boot from SSD by pressing F12 during boot up but got this message



tried going into the bios to choose the SSD but wasn't an option that I could see, when I boot with the original HDD it is now labelled 'G' and the SSD as 'C' if that matters ???
Installed an SSD on my laptop, but with only one ' drive' I guess it was easier..

thanks

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stuck after adding SSD to my new Lenovo desktop

I planned to migrate Windows 10 from my new Lenovo desktop's C: drive with a 1T HDD to a newly-installed SSD. Cloning the OS (and a few other C: files) to the new SSD with EaseUS Todo seemed to go successfully, but I don't know how to complete the process
- here's why....

The Lenovo boots successfully when ONLY the HDD drive is disconnected, and the C: drive is the SSD. All installed programs run normally.

But when I restart with both drives connected, I have a Windows A: drive (SSD) and Windows C: drive, and don't know which I'm booting from. I can't use Disk Manager (or EaseUS Todo) to wipe / reformat the HDD, because it has a boot partition, and neither
software will let me.

I don't care what letter drive the SSD is, as long as I can boot from it, and use the HDD however I want, but I can't get there. What do I do now? This can't be a very hard problem to solve, but I am very eager to hear suggestions on how to proceed. Thanks

--Dan

 

Windows 10 Change partition

So, when I couldn't acces to my PC anymore , I installed Windows on the HDD to have any Kind of Access to Windows.

But know he is booting the HDD with the new installed Windows Version. I want that my pc boots up the SSD though.

Because all my apps etc. got messed up because it's booting the HDD i think.

Like you can see on the right Picture "Local drive (C is the HDD which was on the D: drive" and which is getting booted.

Windows(D was on the C: drive and I want that it boots Windows from the SSD not HDD because I have all my Documents etc on it.

so ( Boot the SSD where the old Windows Version is installed -> check if it's not damaged , if I can't Access to it, boot the HDD where the new Windows Version is installed, take it from there put it to the SSD, delete it from the HDD and boot the SSD with
the copied Windows Version from the HDD)

I hope this is kinda understandable ,...

 

Just tried Easy BCD choose the option to choose boot drive and selected SSD, then went to bios, the options were the same....but found another list of boot choices 1-6 and selected SSD then it appeared in the other boot menu.....now working fine...what about other boot options legacy etc do these need changing

 

Also found on many places in forums the advice not to fill an SSD greater than 75% or it's efficiency falls sharply....I emailed sandisk and they said it's not true..
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Thank you for coming back.

We would like to inform you that the speed of the SSD will not fall with capacity used also over 75%.

It will perform the same. The important thing to do is to activate AHCI in BIOS before installing the O/S.

Also you need to use Windows 7 or higher to have TRIM natively activated which will maintain the performance.
unquote

intersting !!
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SSD may not fail prematurely but Windows need 10 - 20 GB of free space to work properly even with a HDD. Some SSDs have spare, invisible (to Windows) partition for it's use for GC and load leveling while others may need a small part of disk space for that.

 

Is it possible to find out if my sandisk SSD. has this ' spare' capacity

thanks

 

Look at their program: SanDisk SSD Dashboard Support Information if you don't already have it.

 

Tried HW info for my laptop to see what sata speed it is and got
Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 3Gb/s now not sure what it is !!!!

 

Written like that it looks like Laptop has SATA2 (3GB/s) controller with SATA3 (5GB/s) drive connected to it. Look at laptop manual to see which one is supposed to be because controller might be missing proper drivers.

 

That makes sense, will check drivers, but I suspect you are correct

thank you