Afternoon All,
I recently bought a WD 500GB M2 2280 SSD SATA for my Dell 7559 Laptop, which has a 1TB SATA HD in already.
I installed the SSD, downloaded Acronis True Image and started a clone from my main HD to the SSD, as I wish to use the SSD for windows etc.
Once it was complete, I tried to boot however couldn't get any further than safe mode as it would always just black screen or BSOD with (criticial process died)
I can see the SSD has got the cloned installation, and the old HD still has everything installed.
To troubleshoot I took out the SSD and Windows booted fine. I put the SSD back in and took the HDD out and it will not boot just goes to black screen.
I've now come to realise that cloneing is not a good way of doing all this and I shouldn't of done it, but it's a bit late now.
Can anyone recommend what I shall do from here? I cant actually boot in to windows with the SSD plugged in. I'm thinking I need to boot from USB drive and do a fresh install of everything straight on to the SSD?
Bit annoying as I was trying to avoid losing all my files! I have no backup media so means purchasing all that aswell.
Any advice if anyone thinks im missing something would be greatly appreciated.
