If you’re struggling to resolve this particular error message, this article will provide you with several troubleshooting guides that other users in a similar situation have successfully used to force the cloned SSD to boot normally. In this case, using the WinRE utility or BootRec.exe utility should resolve the issue in most cases. Depending on the source disk and the SSD you’re trying to clone on, you might find that the BCD data gets corrupted during the migration process. Boot configuration data got corrupted during migration – Cloning an SSD will always be a bit of a gamble.If the wrong boot mode is set, the cloned SSD will not boot up at all. GPT/MBR conflict – In cases where the user cloned a GPT HDD to MBR SSD (or MBR HDD to GPT HDD), it’s necessary to change the boot mode from UEFI to Legacy or from Legacy to UEFI.In this case, disabling the Secure Boot feature from the BIOS settings should resolve the issue.

Since the majority of free migration software will copy some uniques IDs over to the cloned SSD, the secure boot feature might prevent the system from booting from the new drive.

Secure boot is enabled – HDD cloning and Secure Boot will not play well on most PC configurations.

Several users have managed to resolve this particular issue by using a different SATA cable or SATA port.

Faulty SATA cable / SATA port – We have seen several reports in which the SSD drive was refusing to boot due to a problem with the SATA cable used for the connection.

In this case, removing/wiping the original drive will resolve the issue.

Cloned SSD and source drive have the same unique ID – There are a lot of cloning software products (including Samsung Magician) that will mistakenly copy the unique ID during the cloning process.This means that you’ll need to access your BIOS/UEFI settings and instruct your computer to boot from the new SSD drive. The drive is not set to boot – During the process of cloning the source disk and connecting the SSD to the new computer, the drive will not preserve its boot priority.In this particular scenario, there is no repair strategy other than using a recovery tool to fetch the data from the old HDD and clean installing Windows on the SSD. Naturally, those we’re migrated to the new drive and might have messed up the boot data. Source disk can’t boot – This typically happens in those scenarios where the source disk that was cloned had contained bad sectors.

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