#HOW TO MAKE SSD BOOT DRIVE INSTALL#

Nb: techs and sysadmins 'net wide have one surefire cure for everything: Format and start again from scratch with a fresh install (and rebuild your system settings, histories, passwords yadda for a month afterwards). There's a few free tools where you can try to force it, but they seem risky so I want to check if I'm doing the right thing (like EasyBCD )Дesired effect is the new SSD calls itself the C drive and boots from the OS that I cloned over to it. Booting from the bios results in an error and reccommends booting from the windows disk and repairing.Д«ooting from the windows disk and trying to repair shows no installs of windows at all! (then proceeds to boot from the old C drive like nothing happened) Admin tools doesn't give you an option to make it a system drive. When disconnecting the USB controller the lag. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do next. If you just want to run apps off your external drive, you dont need to install an OS on it and make it bootable. Now I have all these extra partitions floating around that it cloned over. It looks alright data wise, but bios and windows (7) don't believe you can boot from it. The SanDisk SSD Plus comes with easy, step-by-step instructions and cloning software to help you set up your new drive. Download the right version of Ubuntu onto your computer Plug in your USB stick (which will be erased) Flash the USB stick which will make it bootable Boot. So I pared down my boot drive and cloned it over (supposedly).

I got a Samsung EVO, which seems pretty cool.

How to make ssd boot drive