Instead, what you can do is copy it, a process known as cloning. I have know idea of why deleting the graphics driver worked, but it did.Can't actually MOVE the OS from one drive to another. Re-booted on the SSD and everything worked! The NVidia driver spontaneously re-installed too.Īfter I was sure all was well, I reformatted the HDD from within Windows. In Safe Mode I when to Device Manager and deleted the NVidia driver. So I set BIOS to boot on the SSD, went to a back page of the W10 BSD where there is an option to boot in Safe Mode. I found an obscure reference to this problem somewhere on the internet suggesting the issue was the driver for the graphics card. When bios was set to boot on the HDD, all was well. The Windows 10 equivalent of the BSD appeared whenever I tried to boot on the SSD. I did a lot of things, checking the BIOS setting etc. Then I found the machine would not boot on the SSD.
Then while still on the thumb drive boot, thinking I should not boot Windows with 2 bootable drives, I erased the HDD. I then installed the SSD, booted on the thumb drive, and used Acronis to create a clone from external USB HDD to the new SSD. I created a Acronis Recovery thumb drive and also a clone image of the HDD on an external USB HDD. This is a late follow-up, but maybe it will help someone else.īottom line is that I was successful in adding a SSD to a ASUS ROG laptop, leaving the HDD in the laptop, and making the SSD the boot drive.Īnd along the way, Acronis clone S/W save me from bricking the PC. Does the old HDD need to be removed/disconnected when first re-booting on the new SSD? Question: When in this process should I re-format the old HDD? I have read the precaution not to have 2 bootable drives in a Windows machine. Re-boot into BIOS and tell BIOS to boot from the SSD Use Acronis to do a full restore from the external USB-connected HDD to the new SSD.Ħ. Boot laptop using the rescue thumb drive.ĥ. Create a full disk image backup of the HDD and all partitions to an external USB-connected HDDĤ. Create an Acronis bootable rescue thumb drive, and verify it is bootable.Ģ. In the future the HDD will only be used for file storage.ġ. The goal is to transfer the operating system, hidden partitions, all programs and files to the new SSD. The total space presently used on the HDD is about 150GB. I have purchased a PCIE 500GB SSD that will be installed in the open PCIE slot. I have a Windows 10 laptop with a 1TB HDD. I am new to the forum, so please excuse me if this is an old topic.
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