HDD to SSD with System Recovery Disks, "No bootable media"

Jey150bpm

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Not sure if it's Lenovos only, but trying to migrate Windows 8 OEM to an SSD has been a huge pain in the ass. This process should not be as difficult as Lenovo/Microsoft has made it.

I purchased a Y400 along with a 256G SSD. I'd like to clean install Windows onto the SSD, I did not want to copy image. I went through forums for hours trying to put a recovery system on a usb with no luck (even with the instructions given by a Lenovo moderator on their website), I kept getting "missing partition drive". I broke down and paid Lenovo the ridiculous "shipping charge" of $59 for the recovery disks.

These are my steps so far:
My SSD is installed and I removed the HDD (until WIN8 was installed, I'd then format it)
Put Disk 1 into the optical drive (Disk 1 states it's the format sequence and starting point for restore, Win8 actually on disk 2, I believe)

Pressed the "Novo" button on the left side of the machine (gives options of Normal Startup, BIOS Setup, Boot Manager and System Recovery)

*FYI - Boot Manager lists: Windows Boot Manager and 2 EFI volumes (when HDD is plugged in, just the EFI's when uninstalled)
System Recovery only works with the HDD installed and it's Lenovo's One Key Recovery which just restores to a restoration point.*



Went into BIOS setup
Tabbed over to "Security"
Disabled the "Secure Boot"
Tabbed over to "Boot"
Changed the Boot Mode to "Legacy Support"
Changed Boot Priority to "Legacy First"
Saved then exited.

Pressed the "Novo" button once more, went into BIOS setup
Tabbed back to "Boot"
Boot device priority was now displayed with SATA ODD, SSD and Network Boot.
I reordered to boot from SATA ODD
Saved and exited

Upon restart, I pressed F12 (select boot device), and chose the SATA ODD
It went into a DOS looking screen and gives "No Bootable Device - Insert boot disk and press a key"
I've also tried variations of the above procedures for a few hours with no luck.

Not sure what I'm missing, but any help you can provide is appreciated. I refuse to pay Lenovo another $89 to help me, I'm done being nickle'd and dime'd by them.
Several posts that I've read have "CSM" options which I do not have, so I included a few screenshots of my BIOS options for convenience.


I have not tried to boot from "Lenovo Recovery System" (which is only available with the HDD installed), I figured it would default to the HDD and not let me chose to install onto SSD.

Thanks!
 

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I ran into similar difficulties trying to a factory recovery to a newly installed SSD in my new ASUS laptop. I had created a USB recovery drive but got that same "missing partition" message when I tried to recover to the SSD. I even tried to restore an image I made and that failed. Likely because the original drive was 750 gig and the SSD was only 128 gig. I ended up doing a clean install.
 

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