I downloaded Macrium, put my old HDD into a dock followed by the SSD and cloned it. Here is a live example from Tomsguide: 'So I've bought a new 128GB Samsung 750 EVO SSD to upgrade my current laptop with. However, when browsing the internet, we found that many users are troubled by one thing: cloned hard drive won't boot. For instance, you want to upgrade HDD to SSD for better performance you need to clone hard drive to a larger one to save more files you have got multiple computers with the same configurations to install, you just want to make a disk backup, etc. There are times that you may need to clone a hard drive.

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Common Fixes for Cloned Hard Drive Won't Boot.

Also, if the fix does not help, you are able to get 2 more alternative programs of MiniTool that can guide you through a successful disk cloning process and the cloned hard drive is bootable.

It is created to reserve a portion of the disk space for possible subsequent usage by the Windows Operating System.Cloned hard drive wont boot? Here are the normal fix to get your computer bootable again. The MSR partition on my machine is 128MB.

Reflect will show this partition as do some disk partitioning tools.

Most likely what you're missing in Disk Management is the MSR Reserved partition which is purposely hidden. I'm also wondering about the recovery partitions (partitions 4 and 5). There are only four partitions shown in Disk Management but there are five shown in Reflect. My question now is why is there a difference between the way Macrium Reflect displays the partitions versus Windows Disk Management. I followed the procedure in this video and was able to boot from my new 1TB drive. Then I found a video that explained how to get your system partition to align properly (UPDATE: Using Macrium Reflect Free to Clone Windows to a Bootable M.2 SSD). After installing the cloned drive, my computer would go directly to the BIOS setup utility. I followed instructions for resizing the C drive given in a Macrium tutorial video (Cloning a disk using Macrium Reflect 7) available on Youtube. I had been running two 250GB SSDs in RAID 0 and I was running out of space.

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