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February 16th, 2019 21:00
Upgrade HDD with SSD Inspiron 5570 - No Bootable Devices
Struggling to get this to work.
I've purchased a WD Blue 1tb SSD. I've cloned the HDD using EaseUS.
Bios does not seem to identify the drive. I had one boot where I could see the Windows wallpaper (no login yet) and then BSD. I've looked for ways to adjust the boot sequence but the SSD does not show up anywhere in the Bios.
Confirmed - latest firmware.
Re-cloned the drive as well thinking maybe it was corrupt.
Tips on how to get the system to recognize the SSD as a bootable drive?
Do I need to clone with secureboot turned off?
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mplutodh1
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February 18th, 2019 08:00
I've tried turning off secure boot and re-cloning the drive - no luck with that either.
The bios are strange. I'd expect to be able to, if no where else, in legacy mode, change the boot sequence by seeing the bootable devices. No where... Dell, what gives? Thoughts on how to get this thing to boot to the SSD?
For such a common upgrade - wish Dell would put together some instructions on how to go about doing this.
Anyone have thoughts?
mplutodh1
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February 22nd, 2019 18:00
:( struggling here. This shouldn’t be so difficult.
Clintlgm
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February 22nd, 2019 20:00
I have never had a failure using Macrium Reflect Free
Go back to your original drive install MR, Create your USB MR Recovery drive.
Don't change anything in your BIOS your hard drive is working right? no reason that the SSD won't work also.
Install your SSD
Boot your MR Recovery USB in UEFI mode, This is done by from cold boot press your on button and spam your F12 that will bring up a Boot menu, select the UEFI USB
Now your booting to the MR interface in Win PE, You should see both hard drive and SSD, drag down each partition from the hard drive to the SSD put all the small partition in front of C Partition that will leave unused space on the rest of your SSD or if you have to shrink your C partition to fit the SSD this is the time to do it. once all partitions are in place and sized where you want them, click the finish button. Once the clone completes SHUT DOWN do not reboot. Pull the hard drive out of the notebook and now boot up your SSD should boot with no issues.
If per chance you don't see your SSD in MR PE, jusr shut down and boot back into windows with your hard drive. Type in CMD
Select to run in admin mode
Type in diskpart
list disk
select your SSD
Clean
Exit
the clean command will put the SSD back the way it came from the factory RAW unused space.
Reboot to the UEFI USB, and load MR continues as above. I have done this hundred's of times with ZERO issues.
Windows 10 forum Tutorial for step by step instructions
jphughan
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February 22nd, 2019 22:00
Secure Boot doesn't make a difference. That just requires that the bootloader be signed by a trusted authority, and if it isn't, then you get an error specifically saying that that's the problem. The reason you're not seeing any boot options is because UEFI systems work very differently from Legacy BIOS systems, and you should NOT switch your system to Legacy mode just for a clone operation. On UEFI systems, in order for a local storage boot option to appear in the BIOS Setup list, it has to be registered into the firmware, and that boot option registration has to point to a specific bootloader file on a specific partition of a specific device. OS installers typically handle this as part of their routine, but your clone application probably didn't. This is also why you don’t see USB devices in that list either and have to boot from them using the F12 boot menu, FYI. That menu populates dynamically based on the devices that are actually connected. In fact, you might even find that you can boot from your new drive if you select it in the F12 menu.
Anyhow, in terms of an actual fix, as was already suggested, try Macrium Reflect Free. First, turn Secure Boot back on because it doesn't need to be disabled and it's a useful feature because it's a nice security enhancement and also forces your system to boot in UEFI mode, which is what you want in order to avoid further issues. Use Macrium Reflect to create Rescue Media, then boot your system from the Rescue Media, and run the clone from there. After the clone completes, shut down your system and at least temporarily disconnect your source disk so that the newly cloned destination is the only disk available, and try booting your system. If it boots, great. If not, boot into your Rescue Media again and run the Fix Boot Problems routine and try booting again, at which point it should be fine. If at this point you want to continue using your old disk, reconnect it, make sure you are STILL booting from the new clone target, and then use the diskpart "clean" command to wipe the original disk, then reinitialize and repartition it as desired.
mplutodh1
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February 24th, 2019 10:00
Thank you both. Looks like my original clone may have been fine. Even after using Macrium Reflect Free to complete the clone I was unable to boot to the SSD. However, running the Fix Boot Problems routine resolved the issue.