Hello
I have a Gateway NV59C. Currently it has a mechanical HDD. I purchased the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB as my replacement drive. I cloned the drive using the Samsung Data Migration. It finished successfully.
However when I swap the drives (replace HDD with SSD), the laptop shows the boot screen (Gateway logo) with option to press F2 to Enter BIOS, and then just reboots.
However, if I press F2 (or even F12 for boot menu), nothing happens. same thing keeps happening over and over. I thought it may be bad SSD. So I put the old HDD back in , and everything worked. I plugged the SSD into a USB enclosure and I can see the drive with the C drive contents (because it was cloned).
I have checked the following:
- I am already on the latest BIOS version from gateway site
- The SATA port is set to AHCI (it was always AHCI and I was using Win 8.1)
- I disabled quick book (so it shows me details) and I dont see the SSD listed at all
My suspicion is that this could be a bad clone??? The cloning only copied the C: and not the recovery partition.
What do you suggest???
I have a Gateway NV59C. Currently it has a mechanical HDD. I purchased the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB as my replacement drive. I cloned the drive using the Samsung Data Migration. It finished successfully.
However when I swap the drives (replace HDD with SSD), the laptop shows the boot screen (Gateway logo) with option to press F2 to Enter BIOS, and then just reboots.
However, if I press F2 (or even F12 for boot menu), nothing happens. same thing keeps happening over and over. I thought it may be bad SSD. So I put the old HDD back in , and everything worked. I plugged the SSD into a USB enclosure and I can see the drive with the C drive contents (because it was cloned).
I have checked the following:
- I am already on the latest BIOS version from gateway site
- The SATA port is set to AHCI (it was always AHCI and I was using Win 8.1)
- I disabled quick book (so it shows me details) and I dont see the SSD listed at all
My suspicion is that this could be a bad clone??? The cloning only copied the C: and not the recovery partition.
What do you suggest???