SSD woes!!!

**CallmeGoose** · 30th June 2015

So I buy a new Samsung 850evo SSD for the laptop. Install the migration software and install the drive. Migration complete, great I thought. its a twin bay laptop so I take out the old hdd and startup the laptop, all I get is a black screen, and the ability to move a white cursor around. Nothing else.

Tried another migration tool, migrated the files, and again loaded up the laptop. This time to be greeted by the winload.efi is missing. So I boot up the old hdd and have them side by side, the file is there, no doubt about it on both drives. After a quick Google search it seems to be a common problem migrating win 8.1 onto an ssd.

2 days of arsing around with the fucking drive and I'm ready to send it back. Anyone able to help out before the north sea fishes find a new friend in the form of an SSD at the bottom of the ocean??

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**wakadoo** · 30th June 2015

first try a windows startup repair cd.

or

split the ssd into 2 partitions,

image the c drive onto one partition with acronis or similar and create an acronis rescue disk or usb rescue stick.

remove c drive, insert rescue disk, choose image from other partition , wait about 15 mins and tada..

or back up to a server then swap hdds.. restore.

or back up to dvds, then swap drives and restore.

just to avoid any problems install windows with just one hd in the machine as if you have 2 in the boot can write to c (or 0) for both and when you remove it your lappy wont start up, maybe just happens on a fresh install I don't quite remember as its been a while.