Windows 10: How do I boot Windows 10 from my SSD after cloning from HDD?

I think an earlier poster hit the issue with the discussion of BIOS not permitting drive GUIDs to be copied from one to another, which is what cloning does. The $20 Paragon Software product called "Paragon Migrate OS 5.0" does this job quite nicely. I've used it myself, not just to migrate from an HDD to an SSD, but also to migrate from an older, slower SSD to a newer, faster one (including a Samsung NVMe 950). You should check it out!
HTH,
--Ed--

 

When you say the SSD is not showing up in UEFI (bios) - do you mean that the physical drive is not showing up at all, or just that it is not showing up in your list of bootable devices? If if just isn't showing up as a bootable device, what I have found when cloning a drive is that often times, for whatever reason, the EFI System Partition is not cloned as an EFI System Partition. It is cloned as a standard data partition and that is why it won't show up as a bootable device.

To fix it you have to boot from a USB flash drive or DVD that will give you a command prompt and diskpart. I like Kyhi's recovery tools from this forum, but a Windows 10 installation drive will work to. Once you get into a command prompt you would run:

diskpart
list disk
select disk # <-replace # with the disk number of your SSD
list part
select part # <- replace # with the partition number of what should be the EFI System Partition
set id=c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b override
exit
shutdown /r /fw /t 00

Code: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.14393.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: JOHN-LAPTOP DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 447 GB 9 MB * Disk 1 Online 931 GB 2048 KB * Disk 2 No Media 0 B 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list part Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 100 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 101 MB Partition 3 Primary 446 GB 121 MB Partition 4 Recovery 450 MB 446 GB DISKPART> select part 1 Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> set id=c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b override DiskPart successfully set the partition ID. DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart... C:\WINDOWS\system32>shutdown /r /fw /t 00[/quote]

 

If you have a boot Disk you can boot to a CMD prompt and type in the following:

BootRec / fixBoot
BootRec/ FixMBR

BootRec/ Rebuild BCD ( but only if you have to)

This worked for me when I went from a Hard Disk to an SSD. I do not use UEFI though..