Firstly Happy New Year everybody!
My question!I install new SSD disk on my desktop computer Windows 10 x64.I migrate my OS to this.I see new drive in Windows Explorer but this not booting.Maybe problem in BIOS?There are only two things,my current disk and optiarc and i don't set SSD first boot.What i can do to boot throw my new SSD drive?I want this is my general disk and second is data disk!Excuse my bad english!Thanks!
Hi,
Go to BIOS, move your SSD to first boot position( move with arrow keys or any buttons dedicated for your PC) and try.
Last edited by Egrupov; 02 Jan 2017 at 11:33.
What type of interface is the SSD? Is it just a standard SATA like the hard drive and optical drive are plugged into, or is it M.2? If it is SATA, you might want to try plugging the new SSD into the first SATA port (0 or 1), the optical drive into the next higher one, and your current hard drive/SSD into the next higher port.
If the new SSD is the M.2 interface type (which I have never used), your motherboard may require a driver to be loaded at boot time to enable the M.2 interface which means you will have to boot from SATA hard drive/SSD even the OS can be on the M.2 SSD. I think, but not certain.
You could also try backing up your C drive to an external*HDD, create a recovery disk using Macrium Reflect and restore the image to new SSD.
Create a Windows PE Rescue Environment
v5: How to create a disk image (Backup, Image, v5)
Egrupov,
From the image you posted, it appears that you have a 1TB HDD partitioned as C: and D: partitions. Your SSD is a M.2 type that plugs into a card slot on your motherboard. (I also have the same Crucial 275GB MX300 SSD).
I believe that your problem is that the SATA header that your 1TB HDD is connected to, will always have priority over the M.2 SSD connector. That is how it is on my Acer Spin3 laptop. As long as you have a bootable operating system on your 1TB HDD, it will always boot instead of your SSD. (Regardless of the boot priority setup in the BIOS or by tapping the F12 or appropriate key for the boot priority. - Edit)
Disconnect the 1TB HDD and then try booting. Since the M.2 SSD will be the only OS, it will be booted. If this works, then you will have to delete the Win10 on the 1TB HDD to be able to have the 1TB HDD installed along with your SSD and be able to boot from the SSD.
However it is troubling that you say that the SSD is invisible in your BIOS. If that is really true, then why can Windows see it? Anyway, try disconnecting the 1TB HDD and try booting.
I assume that your SSD is a clone of the C: partition from your 1TB HDD. If so, then it should boot. If you installed Win10 from scratch on the SSD, then it would matter if it is legacy or UEFI bootable. I'm not sure if Win10 can even be legacy bootable but from my past experience with earlier Windows OS', those could be UEFI or legacy bootable. BIOS must be set correctly for legacy or UEFI boot to match the OS that you're booting.
mck
Last edited by mck; 08 Jan 2017 at 15:20.
@mck,
It is not the presence of a "C Drive" or operating system partition on a drive that makes it bootable or not. In the standard installation of Winodws 7, 8 or 10 (and maybe even before Windows 7, I don't remember) there is a separate partition that usually does not have a drive letter assigned and is not visible in file explorer that the computer boots from. This is called the system partition. The system partition contains the files that then loads the operating from the "C Drive" partition which is called the boot partition. Yes, I think Microsoft named them backwards, but that's the way it is.
For a legacy BIOS computer, the physical drive itself will be the MBR partition type, with either a FAT32 or NTFS separate System Reserved partition that contains the boot files which then loads the OS from the larger normally NTFS boot partition (C Drive). The system partition the computer boots from must be marked as active, and the NTFS partition the OS resides on won't be (you can only have 1 active partition per physical drive, and that is what BIOS looks for - the active partition).
For a UEFI computer, the physical drive itself will be the GPT partition type and will have a separate FAT32 EFI System Partition which will then load the OS from the boot partition (C Drive). UEFI does not use the active partition marker - it looks for an EFI System Partition to boot from.
So - it's not really whether or not there is an OS installed on a partition on the drive that matters. It's whether or not there is an active partition containing the boots files on a legacy BIOS computer, or whether or not there is an EFI System partition on a UEFI computer. The user does not necessarily need to delete the C: drive partition - they need to remove the active partition (BIOS) or EFI System partition (UEFI). This is also the partition that must be cloned to the SSD to make it bootable.
Below, you can see that my volume 3 is the partition that the computer boots from, an EFI System partition, whereas volume 1 is the partition that contains the OS.
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 volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 G DVD-ROM 0 B No Media Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 446 GB Healthy Boot Volume 2 Recovery NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 3 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 4 D Data NTFS Partition 856 GB Healthy Volume 5 E NTFS Partition 69 GB Healthy Volume 6 R RECOVERY FAT32 Partition 5633 MB Healthy Volume 7 F Removable 0 B No Media DISKPART>
Thanks all,i solved problem!Specially thanks mck!
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