Aspire 5733 won't boot after installing SSD

[Insaniak]

I replaced my HDD on my aspire 5733 with my SSD but now it just keeps cycling main boot screen where it says f2 stays on for about 5 seconds and repeats I've tried pressing f2 to enter bios and I can't. My SSD works just fine I was using it on my desktop. When I put the HDD back into the aspire 5733 it boots up and into Windows. I'm not sure what's going on any help would be appreciated

 

[Saga Lout]

Which cloning software did you use? Was the SSD inside or outside of the machine when the cloning took place?

 

[Insaniak]

I did not clone it. I was going to fresh install Windows but I can't even do that it keeps cycling

 

[Saga Lout]

When you try to install Windows, are you sure you're booting from the Windows DVD or a USB flash drive?

If you have both disks running at the same time, can you "see" the SSD in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management and if you can, do you get a message "Disk needs initialising" or similar?

 

[Insaniak]

When you try to install Windows, are you sure you're booting from the Windows DVD or a USB flash drive?

If you have both disks running at the same time, can you "see" the SSD in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management and if you can, do you get a message "Disk needs initialising" or similar?

I cannot have both running at same time, I removed old HDD and replaced with SSD. I cannot boot into bios or boot from windows installation USB

 

[Saga Lout]

If Function 2 stays on screen for five seconds but you can't get into BIOS, it points to a keyboard issue. Do you have a USB keyboard you can use to see if you can get into BIOS?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Insaniak,

Is there OS on the SSD?

One thing you can try is to take the SSD out of the laptop and try to enter BIOS afterwards. That way you will see if there is something wrong with the keyboard.(F2 button)

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[Insaniak]

If Function 2 stays on screen for five seconds but you can't get into BIOS, it points to a keyboard issue. Do you have a USB keyboard you can use to see if you can get into BIOS?

I Installed the OS on the SSD from my desktop then installed it into laptop, that fixed the issue. Im still not sure why I couldnt install OS using the laptop on the SSD.

 

[Saga Lout]

What matters is you fixed it. You're lucky to get away with the driver situation though.