SSD won't boot

Alonso Ortega

New member
Hi everyone. I bougth an Intel 540 SSD (240GB) and Cloned my OS using EaseUS Backup.

When I swap the drives, my laptop (Dell Inspiron 14 5000) doesn't boot. I've tried changing boot order from the BIOS, changing to Legacy Boot mode, disabling AHCI, both GTP and MBR partition modes and still nothing. I'm running out of options and this is really annoying me. Has anybody an idea of what can I do or has anyone had a similar experience?

Thanks in Advance.
 

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
This is probably the old partition alignment chestnut. SSDs, because they are slid state storage, require their partitions to be aligned on a megabyte boundary, whilst older (very old actually) HDDs used an offset of 63 bytes for partition alignment. Thus if you simply clone one of these older HDDs and write that to an SSD the partition alignment will be out and the SSD won't boot.

You either need to ensure that the cloning tool you use handles the partition alignment for you, or (better still) do a clean reinstall of Windows on your new SSD.

BTW. These fora are primarily for the support of PC Specialist (PCS) custom built PCs and laptops, so you might be better asking your question on a more general forum like Tom's Hardware. :)
 
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