Hi,
Try unplugging the machine and or removing the battery if it's a laptop
Then hold the power button down for at least 1 minute (power drain) method
Then let it sit for a few more minutes
Power back up and try tapping the F2 key continuously.
I have what sounds like the same problem. Have a look here SSD and boot problem
Sound familiar? We see a pattern with ASUS motherboards and use of Macrium. It appears that the BIOS does a device scan then basically locks up when it sees the SSD (mine is a Crucial BX200 240GB). Really weird as it was OK when I first attached it. What SSD are you using?
I hope we can find an answer but I am not feeling too optimistic.
If I get any progress I will keep you posted.
Lindsay.
My Asus board, you enter BIOS with the Delete key and startup options with the F8 key. Try tapping the Delete key rapidly as soon as you hear the post beep, before the Asus logo.
Hi,
Yea I haven't had any issues with Macrium and an asus board.
Using an Samsung sdd though
The op on the other hand is using a hdd I believe :/
Hi,
What don't use Reflect for cloning :/
Not at all sure why you wouldn't just restore a system image to the ssd
Restoring an image from a large drive to an SSD requires partition resizing that cloning can do and cloning trims for SSD as well.
But, whatever floats your boat.
Hi,
System images at least with reflect also uses the trim operation it even states it's using trim to not include deleted items...
I just got another Samsung 500 GB SSD last night and cloned my Windows 10 to it using Macrium. It booted the first time. What I did notice was when I booted into the new drive, the partition letter was removed from the old drive. So, I booted into the old drive and the partition letter was removed from the new drive.
Things may have changed now, but I recall reading an article about UEFI when it first came out. It said you cannot clone a hard drive in UEFI systems. A clone makes an exact duplicate. All hard drives have a unique drive Identification assigned by Windows. UEFI will not allow you to have 2 drives with the same ID. I am not saying this is the problem, but rather basically offering it as a possibility. The way the drives acted after I cloned the new drives was quite unusual. They do not do that in an MBR system.
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