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Take all drives out, turn on the pc. Then take the crucial one and put it in. Power on the computer. This sould be the c drive then. Then you take the ocz drive and plop it in and turn on computer and go to bios change the crucial drive to c if it aint it allready

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So I just got a new SSD (256 GB Crucial) to upgrade my old one (120 gb OCZ).  I used acronis to "clone" the OCZ drive to the new Crucial, I would like to make the new crucial the boot drive. but I cant select it in BIOS...its also called A in windows, as opposed to C. when I go to disk management, I cannot change the drive letter to C for obvious reasons.  Any suggestions?    

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Take all drives out, turn on the pc. Then take the crucial one and put it in. Power on the computer. This sould be the c drive then. Then you take the ocz drive and plop it in and turn on computer and go to bios change the crucial drive to c if it aint it allready

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You didn't clone it correctly. if you had it would be a boot drive. Disconnect all the drive except for the new SSD and boot to a system disk and do a repair. Or clone it correctly

 

Really a clean install is better

 

To clone it correctly you would connect the new drive. Boot to Acronis, clone it, disconnect the old drive and boot to windows

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You didn't clone it correctly. if you had it would be a boot drive. Disconnect all the drive except for the new SSD and boot to a system disk and do a repair. Or clone it correctly

 

Really a clean install is better

 

To clone it correctly you would connect the new drive. Boot to Acronis, clone it, disconnect the old drive and boot to windows

 

 

I hope that helps helped with me i had the same problem.

 

 

Have you tried taking the SATA cables out of every other drive in your PC, then making it boot drive?

okay, so I successfully got the new drive to be C.  But I quickly noticed that even before I got it there that it takes me FOREVER to boot. im talking like my 5400rpm laptop boots faster. I also have this random drive listed in my drives....not sure where the 100 Mb drive is coming from I dont really know what to do from here  111drives.JPG?dl=0

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The 100mb partition is normal. Its the bootmgr. Just start over. Do you have the windows install? Pull all your drives out. Install just the SSD and make sure the BIOS  SATA controller is set to AHCI not IDE. Delete all partitoion and cheat a new one. It will make a 100Mb partition for the boot and the rest for the drive. (actaully you should not use the entire drive leave about 5% unpartitioned for over provisioning)

 

Cloning is challanging and frustrating. Going from an old install on a 5400 drive to an SSD can cause problems

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