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I recently received a brand new HP Envy 850-065se desktop with Win7 and I am trying to upgrade from slow HDD to a Samsung 950 PRO M.2 SSD. Installed the SDD, along with Samsung's driver, migration (clone) tool, and performance verify tool. Cloned the original HDD to the SSD without a hitch. Disconnected the HDD. Now I see the HP logo followed by POST display, then 60 seconds of black screen, "Starting Windows" on black screen with no animation for another 5 minutes, then suddenly Win7 is up and ready. Performance eval says hard drive is 7.9. Sweet, but that 6 minute boot time is really painful! I am guessing that it is looking for the old HDD (SATA0), timing out, and then finding the SSD at M.2-socket (PCIe slot 4). I tried changing the boot order in BIOS to make the M.2 drive the only option but that causes a "Load Error: no boot drive found or drive has failed" message. Reconfig BIOS to re-enable Win Boot Manager and then it does boot but with the 6 minute startup time.
Summary: SSD works great once Win7 is loaded. BIOS changes only make a bad situation worse. Windows Boot Manager must be the key; Perhaps it is using old Boot Config Data that was cloned from HDD to SSD. How can I update this?
Any comments or suggestions appreciated!
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Summary: SSD works great once Win7 is loaded. BIOS changes only make a bad situation worse. Windows Boot Manager must be the key; Perhaps it is using old Boot Config Data that was cloned from HDD to SSD. How can I update this?
Any comments or suggestions appreciated!
Continue reading...