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Hi, I recently bought a Samsung 840EVO 240GB SSD to upgrade my mechanical HDD on my asus x202e laptop.
I have the SSD hooked up via USB. Last night I attempted to clone the entire disk (Including the 300MB uefi partition, 900 MB recovery partition and of course the primary OS partition.)
Here's a screen shot of diskmgmt>

What's interesting to me is my OS Partition on the HDD shows (Boot, Page File,ect) But my SSD OS Partition does NOT reflect this information.
And here's a shot of how the EaseUS cloning software that I tired first.

After using this software to clone the entire disk I attempted to boot off the SSD by choosing it during the boot sequence. It will start to boot off the SSD (I can see the blue access lights on the USB connector showing activity) and then it will switch over to the HDD half way through the boot up. If I disable the HDD entirely in the BIOS Windows will attempt a "repair" and then it brings me to a menu to continue to Win 8.1, reboot,etc.
If I hit continue it will just reboot and repeat. I'm almost certain something isn't right with the uefi/gpt settings.
Tonight I bought paragon migrate to SSD that had a additional button to tick that I "thought" would get me past the issue I had with EaseUS. The button in Paragon that I checked is called "Create new EFI entry for destination drive".
One of the major "caveats" that paragon warns you is that the "source" partition will no longer be bootable after the migration is complete.
After cloning the disk over using Paragon I rebooted with my heart racing (You know!) and was skeptical it wouldn't work. Well, the exact same thing is happening with Paragon. I went into my Bios and tried the typical stuff (Disable fast boot/secure boot,etc) and nothing works to boot the SSD. I'm having the same issue I had with EaseUS. I was thinking the "Create new EFI entry for destination drive" in paragon would allow this to work. Unfortunately I spent $15 on software I didn't need. Oh well, at least it was cheap and the software does seem good! It clones quickly.
Well, luckily I'm still able to boot off my "source" HDD so that's a relief. I had my WinPE bootable USB ready with diskpart utility in case I couldn't boot off the HDD.
Well, I "think" I know what the issue is after getting into diskpart. I'm showing what appears to be two active partitions.
Can someone let me know how to correct this? I was going to try Easy BCD but they want $20 for that software now. Their supposed to be a WinPE bootable USB disk paragon used to offer to correct EFI boot parameters but they no longer offer this from what I can tell.
Here's what disk part shows.. Disk 0 is my HDD and Disk 1 is my SDD.
So, it appears that Disk 0 partition 1 is the active partition. That's the 300 MB uefi partition. And here my SSD (Disk 1) info. I also see it has the same partition set as active.
I would like to remove the Active partition from Disk 0 Partition 1. I believe Easy BCD could do this but I should be able to do it via diskpart. I tried some commands but it gave me some errors about MBR or something.
Here's the output from the SSD.
Thanks for any/all help!! Also, as any FYI I used my USB to boot up a live version of partition magic to initialize the SDD with GPT file system. I probably didn't need to do this but I want to eventually get dual boot on this. I would just like to get windows 8.1 working first. Thx
I have the SSD hooked up via USB. Last night I attempted to clone the entire disk (Including the 300MB uefi partition, 900 MB recovery partition and of course the primary OS partition.)
Here's a screen shot of diskmgmt>

What's interesting to me is my OS Partition on the HDD shows (Boot, Page File,ect) But my SSD OS Partition does NOT reflect this information.
And here's a shot of how the EaseUS cloning software that I tired first.

After using this software to clone the entire disk I attempted to boot off the SSD by choosing it during the boot sequence. It will start to boot off the SSD (I can see the blue access lights on the USB connector showing activity) and then it will switch over to the HDD half way through the boot up. If I disable the HDD entirely in the BIOS Windows will attempt a "repair" and then it brings me to a menu to continue to Win 8.1, reboot,etc.
If I hit continue it will just reboot and repeat. I'm almost certain something isn't right with the uefi/gpt settings.
Tonight I bought paragon migrate to SSD that had a additional button to tick that I "thought" would get me past the issue I had with EaseUS. The button in Paragon that I checked is called "Create new EFI entry for destination drive".
One of the major "caveats" that paragon warns you is that the "source" partition will no longer be bootable after the migration is complete.
After cloning the disk over using Paragon I rebooted with my heart racing (You know!) and was skeptical it wouldn't work. Well, the exact same thing is happening with Paragon. I went into my Bios and tried the typical stuff (Disable fast boot/secure boot,etc) and nothing works to boot the SSD. I'm having the same issue I had with EaseUS. I was thinking the "Create new EFI entry for destination drive" in paragon would allow this to work. Unfortunately I spent $15 on software I didn't need. Oh well, at least it was cheap and the software does seem good! It clones quickly.
Well, luckily I'm still able to boot off my "source" HDD so that's a relief. I had my WinPE bootable USB ready with diskpart utility in case I couldn't boot off the HDD.
Well, I "think" I know what the issue is after getting into diskpart. I'm showing what appears to be two active partitions.
Can someone let me know how to correct this? I was going to try Easy BCD but they want $20 for that software now. Their supposed to be a WinPE bootable USB disk paragon used to offer to correct EFI boot parameters but they no longer offer this from what I can tell.
Here's what disk part shows.. Disk 0 is my HDD and Disk 1 is my SDD.
Code:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 232 GB 114 GB *
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.3.9600
DISK - Display a list of disks. For example, LIST DISK.
PARTITION - Display a list of partitions on the selected disk.
For example, LIST PARTITION.
VOLUME - Display a list of volumes. For example, LIST VOLUME.
VDISK - Displays a list of virtual disks.
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 0 Online 465 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 232 GB 114 GB *
Disk 2 Online 29 GB 0 B
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 300 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Recovery 900 MB 301 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 1201 MB
Partition 4 Primary 185 GB 1329 MB
Partition 5 Recovery 350 MB 187 GB
Partition 6 Primary 258 GB 187 GB
Partition 7 Recovery 20 GB 445 GB
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
* Partition 1 System 300 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Recovery 900 MB 301 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 1201 MB
Partition 4 Primary 185 GB 1329 MB
Partition 5 Recovery 350 MB 187 GB
Partition 6 Primary 258 GB 187 GB
Partition 7 Recovery 20 GB 445 GB
So, it appears that Disk 0 partition 1 is the active partition. That's the 300 MB uefi partition. And here my SSD (Disk 1) info. I also see it has the same partition set as active.
I would like to remove the Active partition from Disk 0 Partition 1. I believe Easy BCD could do this but I should be able to do it via diskpart. I tried some commands but it gave me some errors about MBR or something.
Here's the output from the SSD.
Code:
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 300 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Recovery 900 MB 302 MB
Partition 3 Primary 117 GB 1202 MB
DISKPART> select partition 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
* Partition 1 System 300 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Recovery 900 MB 302 MB
Thanks for any/all help!! Also, as any FYI I used my USB to boot up a live version of partition magic to initialize the SDD with GPT file system. I probably didn't need to do this but I want to eventually get dual boot on this. I would just like to get windows 8.1 working first. Thx