Windows 10: Clone to SSD - stuck on BIOS logo?

Hi all,

I have a friend's all-in-one Dell Inspiron 24 here. They asked me to upgrade the RAM and the hard drive for them. RAM is in and is working fine, but I was upgrading their current 1TB HDD to a 1TB SSD. Before I continue, I should mention that the Win10 install on the original hard drive was working fine and booted no problem before I did the clone. It was shut down correctly, etc.

I used Clonezilla to clone the original hard drive to the 1TB SSD by putting the SSD in a USB hard drive adapter I have. According to Clonezilla, the clone completed successfully. I used the 'disk-to-disk' clone to make sure it got every partition and the MBR, and whatever else it needed, etc.

I opened the computer up, removed the original hard drive and installed the new SSD with the clone on it into the same spot. Being an all-in-one, there is only one SATA plug, so the SSD is in the EXACT same spot the HDD was in.

However, when I try to boot, I get to the BIOS screen that shows the 'Press F2 to enter Setup, press F12 to enter Boot Menu". etc and the Dell logo as normal. After this, it should go to the Dell logo Windows loading screen with Win10's little spinning loading symbol at the bottom.....but it doesn't. It just sits there at a blank screen with nothing but the Dell logo and the Win10 loading symbol never comes up...i.e. I see this and nothing happens:




Any ideas how to get my clone on this SSD booting again? Thanks!

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Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

I kinda agree with you, but on a wholr, do not. While I have done things a bit differently than this specific situation, by installing Windows directly to the SSD, and cloning after, my testing shows that there are no issues doing this, very little that can go wrong, provided your system is stable.

There are certain features that must be disabled in this situation, like auto defrag and such, but even with a fresh install to the SSD, you need to take steps to ensure that you SSD performs properly, regardless of how the data got there.

Arming yourself with a bit of knowledge can go a long way.

Installing the latest chipset driver, and the RST Tools, will ensure optimal performance of the SSD. but rather than taking my advice, I suggest the OP takes a look here:

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sand...7-and-ssds-to-clone-windows-or-reinstall.aspx

Installing The SSD - Install A Solid State Drive In Your Notebook

Keep in mind, also, Digibucc, that many retail drives include software and such that very specifically is to be used to ttranser the OS from an existing mechanical drive to an SSD, and if there really was alot fo issues stemming from the cloning process, they would not have packages like that, simply to eliminate tech support costs. While not the optimal option, cloning is NOT a bad thing, as long as you take the nessecary steps.

 

Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

Part of how I keep my SSD fast is to clone it to a platter drive, then clone back. You just want to make sure that you are only cloning teh used space, and not the empty space.


So, again, I isntall Windows to the ssd. Clone to platter drive, then clone back.

I am not sure why, but if I do not do the clone step, the drive's speed, and windows booting, decreases substantially within a week or so.

I am using a Corsair F60 SSD and a Western Digital 500AAKS as drives, and using the free version of Acronis that WD provides, if any of that matters. I am not sure, at this point.

 

M.2 cloned from SSD dive, bios problems

did you cloned only C partition to new m.2 dad ? .

did you see new m.2 is detected by bios? , if not means get updated bios and flash it .

or restore the bios default settings .

after cloned c partition, remove old ssd, then boot the Windows 10 dvd and try to repair startup repair