Old PC wont boot to samsung ssd

[open frigate]

Hey! Im upgrading a friends gaming desktop since he has a hard drive as his boot device to a samsung 1tb ssd. After the clone the bios detects it and the windows install on it but when i tell it to boot to it the screen just goes black. Pc still works with original hard drive

[oblique cypress]

Make sure you use a special tool made for cloning HDDs to SSD because data is written very differently on HDDs You can't just copy the data it has to be written in the correct order I suggest just installing windows separately on the ssd then just copy and paste important files

@open frigate

Checkout partition wizard it might support that

[lofty pumice]

Are you unplugging the old hard drive when trying to boot to the new ssd? It’s recommended you do this because the computer can get confused if you don’t, as they’re the “same” drive

[open frigate]

@oblique cypress @lofty pumice Yes i am sure i used the correct tools. The only drive plugged into the computer is the cloned SSD. When booted it goes to Windows Boot Manager and says A Required Device isn't connected or cannot be accessed

[shut nebula]

Fresh install the OS copy and paste the data over

[open frigate]

Ok