Need help with OS migration

[Mightypawn]

I have installed a Samsung 960EVO, and I have used Software to:

 

-Create a System Back-up

-Create a rescue USB Boot Drive

-Clone System Partition

-Clone Windows Partition

 

Looks like progress... but I changed my boot order in Bios right after doing the system partition clone, and BEFORE cloning windows.  (I did the latter after realizing that I was still running off of the Hard Drive.

 

Below is a screenshot from Computer Management/Disk Management:

-Drive 0 is the original Hard Drive

-Drive 1 is the new Samsung 960EVO

 

So, Here's my Question.  What is the next step?  I don't think it is wise to format my original HDD yet....  LOL...  Call me a chicken... but it seems like I might not be done working on this project yet...

 

Anybody know what I should do next?  

[Mightypawn]

P.S. >>>>>

Forgot to mention...

The Hard drive is still Drive C:

The Samsung 960EVO is Drive D;

 

The rest of my system looks like this:

MSI B350M Bazooka Motherboard

Ryzen 7 1700X

16GB Samsung Ram

MSI GTX 1070 Graphics Card

2TB Toshiba Hard Drive

 

Thanks in advance for any advice!

[Airdragonz]

So go into bios, set boot device to your Samsung 960 Evo. Make sure everything is working properly. The hard drive and Evo should switch drive letters. If it works, great. You can wipe your old hard drive and use it as mass storage, or keep it as a backup.

[Mightypawn]

Drats!  Didn't work...  Got a message to insert a bootable drive...

 

Switched the Bios to boot from the HDD again.  Any Ideas where I went wrong?

 

[TheGlenlivet]

27 minutes ago, Mightypawn said:

Drats!  Didn't work...  Got a message to insert a bootable drive...

 

Switched the Bios to boot from the HDD again.  Any Ideas where I went wrong?

 

When I did this I physically removed the HDD, booted off the SSD and then enabled hot swaping in my bios to plug the HDD back in while booted so I could see it after booting.  

A Sata to USB adapter would probably work too without the hot swap mess.

[Mightypawn]

I contacted Microsoft with the online chat thingy....  they helped me find out my windows registration key.

 

Now I can simply re-format my EVO, switch the bios boot priority, and use a windows installer USB that I just created to fresh install windows on my new drive...  

 

I think this is the simplest solution.  then I can simply re-format my original drive.  I have already created a system back-up so I can't lose anything.

 

Thank you all for your help!