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Cant boot from Hard drive but recognized in BIOS

AJ_Yakstrangler

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I cloned my hard drive in a dell inspiron 17 3721 no problem it shows in my computer as d drive. When i took the old drive out and installed new it spins and its recognized in the BIOS but says theres no boot media. the fixed HDD Is recognized by name its a toshiba hdd but SATA ODD isnt detected
 
Check to make sure you can see files on that cloned drive and that you cloned the full disk not just a partition. What did you use to clone it?
 
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Hi EASEUS disk copy and i can see all the files