Hi Knewbee
Quick quiz first When Allan asked you to copy the R: and C: Partitions to the new SSD (Post No.65)
Did you make the R: System Reserve Active? If No then please make it active and see if it boots from the SSD
You do not say if you made it active (Post No. 74) If you did make it active and it did not work then please try this.
please follow these instructions which came from
Move Partition
Please read through first. ANY DOUBTS please come back and ask. Because of the time difference you may have to wait a couple of hours for my response. I will keep watching this thread.
I would put the ssd in and make sure you have a free partition space first and please make it 480MB
Clone system reserved partition to SSD
A manual file copy of important partitions has vast potential cause problems on your computer, this is particularly true when you are copying system related partitions. To avoid this, it’s recommend that you use a
free Partition manager software, like AOMEI Partition Assistant to clone the partition. By using specialist software, you can effortlessly move your system reserved partition to different disk.
To clone a system reserved partition:
1.
Download AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard (free edition) and launch it.
2. Right click on the old system reserved partition and select Copy Partition.
3. Select Sector by Sector Copy and click Next.
4. Select the unallocated space on the SSD as the destination location which will receive the system reserved partition. If there is no unallocated space, then you can shrink a partition by clicking
Resize Partition.
5. The next screen, you can adjust the size of new system reserved partition and other parameters. Set the drive letter to None.
6. Click Apply to apply these changes.
After the conversion, you can change the partition label to
System Reserved and set the partition as ‘
Active’.
Remember, the system reserved partition has to be a primary partition, if your new system reserved partition is a logical drive, then you should first
convert it to primary partition without losing data. Once you have completed this, you will have successfully moved the system reserved partition to different drive. If you find that your drive has unallocated space after the conversion, then you can merge the unallocated space with any partition that you want to extend.