I have a new HP Envy 17 that came with a 1 TB hard disk and wanted to install a SSD as the boot disk. It has Windows 8.1 Professional installed on it.
The HP has 2 disk bays with 2 motherboard sata connectors, one for disk 0 and one for disk 1.
I installed the SSD in the 2nd drive bay and connected it to the disk 1 connector. Booted up and ran AOMEI Backupper Standard v2.0.2. Using the Clone function I cloned disk 0 onto disk 1 (the SSD). As AOMEI compacted some of the partitions, the RECOVERY partition, for example, I ran MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition v8.11 to increase those partitions on the SSD to be the same size as on the original hard disk. This was just in case HP wanted to rewrite them there would be expansion room equal or greater than what was allocated on the original HP disk. Not likely I know!
The disks were then exchanged in the drive bays. The SSD connected to the sata connector for disk 0 and the original hard disk moved to the disk 1 connector.
I then rebooted. My recollection is that I ran Disk Management and things looked OK.
Subsequently I started loading software, MS Office, etc. and now, after feeling something is not right I looked at my drives with Disk Management again and I noticed the Windows (C drive is assigned to the original hard disk, NOT the new SSD. A copy of the Disk Managment screen is attached.
When I looked at the partitions using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition v8.11 I realize the problem is that the Windows partition on Disk 0 is not active and bootable. Now it appears that if I can make it active and bootable I may be able to boot the SSD windows.
Question 1: Is this analysis correct?
Question 2: How to make a partition active and bootable?
Question 3: Any pitfalls with cloning the Windows (C partition, (Disk 1), over the Windows (J, (Disk 0), partition?
Question 4: Anything else?
The HP has 2 disk bays with 2 motherboard sata connectors, one for disk 0 and one for disk 1.
I installed the SSD in the 2nd drive bay and connected it to the disk 1 connector. Booted up and ran AOMEI Backupper Standard v2.0.2. Using the Clone function I cloned disk 0 onto disk 1 (the SSD). As AOMEI compacted some of the partitions, the RECOVERY partition, for example, I ran MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition v8.11 to increase those partitions on the SSD to be the same size as on the original hard disk. This was just in case HP wanted to rewrite them there would be expansion room equal or greater than what was allocated on the original HP disk. Not likely I know!
The disks were then exchanged in the drive bays. The SSD connected to the sata connector for disk 0 and the original hard disk moved to the disk 1 connector.
I then rebooted. My recollection is that I ran Disk Management and things looked OK.
Subsequently I started loading software, MS Office, etc. and now, after feeling something is not right I looked at my drives with Disk Management again and I noticed the Windows (C drive is assigned to the original hard disk, NOT the new SSD. A copy of the Disk Managment screen is attached.
When I looked at the partitions using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition v8.11 I realize the problem is that the Windows partition on Disk 0 is not active and bootable. Now it appears that if I can make it active and bootable I may be able to boot the SSD windows.
Question 1: Is this analysis correct?
Question 2: How to make a partition active and bootable?
Question 3: Any pitfalls with cloning the Windows (C partition, (Disk 1), over the Windows (J, (Disk 0), partition?
Question 4: Anything else?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Envy 17
- CPU
- I7
- Motherboard
- HP
- Memory
- 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvida
- Browser
- IE