Tech help needed!

B01E

B01E

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I have encountered a problem with my computer. The main drive "C:" is on an SSD drive with 128GB of storage. That has become too small, so I went and bought a new SSD drive with 512GB of storage. Being the lazy type, I didn't feel like having to install windows all over again, and cloned my old drive onto the new drive. The problem now is that I can't get the computer to boot from the new drive.
I can't get it to change the "C:" from the old drive to the new, and setting the bios to boot from the new drive gave no result, not even after unplugging the old drive. I also moved the new drive to the first location on the cables, but that made no change.

I used the program Macrium Reflect, as that was recommended by most. And it made a complete clone. What am I missing here? Can anyone help?
 
A. Does it boot from old ssd? Surely you could set the new drive as a slave drive and run windows off original ssd. Windows would run fine just move new files onto the new drive when original is full
 
My pc has a 250 boot drive with windows 7 and then a 300 that we got out a sky box that is drive E that I can dump stuff onto when i fill c drive
 
The old drive is working fine, and I'm using the computer now. I just need to move it to a new harddrive.

That link I have found a tried already. All I get is an error that it can't do it.

I read something about the new way to organize the data and an old method. The new is not compatible with the old, so if they are different, you can't make it work. But I can't figure out if that is the case, because you can't find that information anywhere on the drives. I have tried 4 different ways to make the drive bootable, and not one worked.

If I don't find something soon, I'll have no choice but to make a new install of windows. *sigh* It will take all day...
 
B01E said:
The old drive is working fine, and I'm using the computer now. I just need to move it to a new harddrive.

That link I have found a tried already. All I get is an error that it can't do it.

I read something about the new way to organize the data and an old method. The new is not compatible with the old, so if they are different, you can't make it work. But I can't figure out if that is the case, because you can't find that information anywhere on the drives. I have tried 4 different ways to make the drive bootable, and not one worked.

If I don't find something soon, I'll have no choice but to make a new install of windows. *sigh* It will take all day...
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Only took me about 3 hours to do a clean install last saturday, might be worth it tbh, clean out all the old stuff.
 
There are some stored passwords that I can not retrieve... So if I can avoid a fresh install, I'd like that.
 
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