Please help!

[derrickd241]

I cloned my HDD which is a WD black 500gb to a new crucial mx100 which is a 512gb using the acronis cloning tool well I cloned it and everything went fine shut the computer down when it was done had both drives plugged in when I booted again everything seemed fine and dandy. I then formatted my HDD restarted my pc now my windows shows a blue screen after I log in and I can't do anything besides open task manager. What the hell is wrong? I don't have a windows install disk or a backup bootable drive so what can I do?

[vlkn´]

Is the ssd selected as first device to boot?

Try starting windows in safe mode (I think f8)

[derrickd241]

I opened task manager and clicked new task and then I could open Firefox to download a new .ISO file for windows so hopefully this works lol I was almost going to punch something haha thanks though

Is the ssd selected as first device to boot?

Try starting windows in safe mode (I think f8)

[Captain_WD]

I cloned my HDD which is a WD black 500gb to a new crucial mx100 which is a 512gb using the acronis cloning tool well I cloned it and everything went fine shut the computer down when it was done had both drives plugged in when I booted again everything seemed fine and dandy. I then formatted my HDD restarted my pc now my windows shows a blue screen after I log in and I can't do anything besides open task manager. What the hell is wrong? I don't have a windows install disk or a backup bootable drive so what can I do?

 

Hey derrickd241,

 

As @vlkn´' suggested, you could go to BIOS and check which devices are on your Bootable Device list. You should put your SSD on the first place and either remove the HDD or put it on last place. This way you would make sure you are booting from the SSD and the HDD is not interfering in any way. 

 

Which part of the HDD did you format? If you had multiple partitions, there may be some files that are preventing Windows from starting properly. Also you should delete the system reserved partition from the HDD. I would suggest trying to run the computer with only the SSD plugged in to see if this removes the issue. 

 

When you said Blue Screen, did you mean BSOD or simply plain Blue?

 

Captain_WD.

[Jetster]

You erased your boot record. Do a repair with a system disk or downloaded ISO and make a USB install

 

Then read the cloning instructions

[derrickd241]

Hey derrickd241,

 

As @vlkn´' suggested, you could go to BIOS and check which devices are on your Bootable Device list. You should put your SSD on the first place and either remove the HDD or put it on last place. This way you would make sure you are booting from the SSD and the HDD is not interfering in any way. 

 

Which part of the HDD did you format? If you had multiple partitions, there may be some files that are preventing Windows from starting properly. Also you should delete the system reserved partition from the HDD. I would suggest trying to run the computer with only the SSD plugged in to see if this removes the issue. 

 

When you said Blue Screen, did you mean BSOD or simply plain Blue?

 

Captain_WD.

Twas just a plain blue screen and you could press Ctrl alt Del to get task manager up

You erased your boot record. Do a repair with a system disk or downloaded ISO and make a USB install

 

Then read the cloning instructions

I just decided to do a clean install and now after I formatted the ssd and unhooked the HDD and I was updating drivers specifically for my graphics card and there was a window update just one update and I went to restart my computer now my screen goes blank. I'm just not having the best of luck with this ssd stuff haha I might have to reinstall Windows yet again...

[Jetster]

Not uncommon. Just take your time.