Help with drive cloning

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So I am trying to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 13 7000 Samsung 128 GB SSD to a Samsung 500 GB SSD. I had a USB 3.0 to SATA cable that came with a WD Black Squared but when trying to get the computer to see it (In Diskpart and Disk Managment is says "The Drive is not ready" so I made a backup of it using AOMEI Partition Assistant to a WD External Drive and then plugged the 500 GB SSD into my desktop where it could see it, put after moving all of the paritions and files over, it wouldn't boot, so I'm wondering if I can boot my desktop off of the 128 GB SSD and then use Samsungs migration software to make a clone or if there is another way I should do it. Thanks.  (ignore my username and posts, I haven't been able to access my main account sense the force password change, so if anymore can help me with that too, i'd be great)