Cloned SSD of bootable HDD will not boot
Once again, a story of a non-booting SSD. Yes, I've read many of the previous postings, and even disassembled this machine for the 3 time to try the "recommended" method. It did not work, as did my previous 3 times using ATI 2020 build 25700.
The laptop: Dell Inspiron 15 series 3000. Intel i3-7th gen, 6 GB RAM and a slow 1 TB HDD, UEFI and secure boot enabled. On at least a dozen other machines I've successfully cloned the HDD to a SSD, did the swap, and had a faster machine with everything working with no need to reinstall programs or restore data. No so much luck on this one.
Per recommendation from this forum: Disassembled working laptop, replaced HDD with new SSD, reassembled. Attached the old HDD back to the computer with a USB/SATA adapter. Booted on the ATI 2020 rescue disk, UEFI 64-bit, secure boot, no errors. Ran an automatic clone operation with the USB-attached HDD as the source to the internally-installed SSD as the target. Successful clone, shutdown afterward. Detached the USB HDD, attempted boot - failed. After a few times Windows tries a startup repair (which fails) and ends up in the Windows diagnostics routines. Turned secure boot off, same result.
This is the same result I got from cloning the internal HDD to USB SSD, cloning with both HDD and SSD on USB adapters on a different machine, and a full image backup of the HDD then a separate restore to the SSD. Even tried ATI 2017 and 2014, same result.
Some more diagnostics: Here is what the two drives look like after the cloning process when attached to a different computer in Windows Disk Manager. Disk 2 is the SSD and Disk 3 is the original HDD.
Note the "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" tag is missing on the last 3 partitions on the SSD. When installed, the SSD does properly show up in the EUFI (BIOS) settings. When the boot fails, Windows system recovery Command Prompt does *not* see a C: or D: drive as it should.
I give up. I'm sure I could wipe the SSD and clean install Windows, but that's not the point. I rely on ATI to do the right thing, and this time it isn't and I don't know why.
-bb


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+1 Backup and recovering to new drive has always been my preferred approach.
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