New pc build gone wrong

[BlazingSorcerer]

So this month a built a new pc and I decided to use my old PC's SSD and OS, but I quickly opted out of that, since my PC would crash at seemingly random times. (I looked at the dump files but couldn't get closer than one of my drivers was faulty) 

So today I tried to move my OS from the old SSD to a new one, but halfway through the process, when it was time to reboot and change some things in the UEFI, my pc starts up on the GNU GRUB Version 2.04-3 with this message: Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions. And I don't know what to do on this screen. I restartet my PC via the ON/OFF button on the case and now my keyboard and mouse aren't being picked up by my motherboard (so even if I knew what to do, I can't type anything) It seems to be my mouse and keyboard, since my microphone is lighting up when plugged in.

If anyone knows what to do, or anything to do, any help would be much appreciated.

Oscar

 

PS. I followed this guide until the 7:40 timestamp, since my UEFI isn't the same as his: 

 

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

If you shut down the PC, disconnect the SATA cable running to the drive with clonezilla, and restart dose it boot Windows from the old hard drive?

[BlazingSorcerer]

@Andrew 1337

It starts up in the UEFI. thank you so much

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

16 minutes ago, BlazingSorcerer said:

@Andrew 1337

It starts up in the UEFI. thank you so much

 

So at this point I would do the following.

1. Shut down the computer
2. Plug in the SATA cable for the new drive and old.
3. Start the PC, and get to BIOS/UEFI
4. Look for settings related to boot order
5. Make sure the original hard drive is first in boot order
6. Boot into the original hard drives OS
7. Using method D make a live thumb drive https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
8. Remove all partitions and allocations from the new hard drive putting it back to allocated space
9. Shutdown the computer
10. Start the PC, and get to BIOS
11. Make sure USB devices are the first thing to boot and SATA drives are second
12. Insert the clonezilla thumb drive
13. Boot into clonezilla as USBs are first now
14. Use a different tutorial for clonzilla using live thumb drive

Live thumb drives are a little harder to setup, but I have always had better success. And if you don't want to boot clonezilla you can pull the thumb drive and reboot.

 

Edit: Once it is successful, if you pull the original hard drive and the clonezilla thumb drive the cloned drive should boot to windows.

[BlazingSorcerer]

2 hours ago, Andrew 1337 said:

 

So at this point I would do the following.

1. Shut down the computer
2. Plug in the SATA cable for the new drive and old.
3. Start the PC, and get to BIOS/UEFI
4. Look for settings related to boot order
5. Make sure the original hard drive is first in boot order
6. Boot into the original hard drives OS
7. Using method D make a live thumb drive https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php
8. Remove all partitions and allocations from the new hard drive putting it back to allocated space
9. Shutdown the computer
10. Start the PC, and get to BIOS
11. Make sure USB devices are the first thing to boot and SATA drives are second
12. Insert the clonezilla thumb drive
13. Boot into clonezilla as USBs are first now
14. Use a different tutorial for clonzilla using live thumb drive

Live thumb drives are a little harder to setup, but I have always had better success. And if you don't want to boot clonezilla you can pull the thumb drive and reboot.

 

Edit: Once it is successful, if you pull the original hard drive and the clonezilla thumb drive the cloned drive should boot to windows.

Thank you so much for the help Andrew.
Just a last question before I follow your instructions:

would it be better and easier if I just made a new windows instalation on my new SSD, instead of moving the OS over. I have made a thumb drive ready for this, and that was the plan, until I decided to re-use the old OS.

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

1 minute ago, BlazingSorcerer said:

Thank you so much for the help Andrew.
Just a last question before I follow your instructions:

would it be better and easier if I just made a new windows instalation on my new SSD, instead of moving the OS over. I have made a thumb drive ready for this, and that was the plan, until I decided to re-use the old OS.

 

Cloning an OS that is misbehaving/corrupt will near always bring the issues along with it, the safest bet would be to clean install, if that is an option. If the hardware upgrade you did changes most of the hardware it is possible that there are conflicts that can not be resolved without a clean install.

 

Just make sure to backup important files off the old OS drive to save yourself from lost or corrupt data, no matter what way you decide to do this.