Lenovo G585 Won't boot After Upgrading To SSD

I appreciate the help from everyone. I can supply some further information.

1- The bios recognises the SSD. I have attached the report log from Crystal disk. The disk seems fine.
2- I have attached the screenshot from disk management.
3- I have attached the boot log file from the very slow boot.
4- I have attached the boot log file from the very fast boot. (please see below for the explanation)*. Both look boot log files identical. So I don't think the problem is with Windows drivers or the mbr.

*If I go to msconfig and select normal startup with all devices and drivers and I click to reboot to take effect, then it boots from the ssd into Windows in a few seconds.

Also, if I select reboot from a Windows 7 bootable CD it boots from the ssd and windows is loaded in a few seconds.

If I select shutdown and then press the power button on the laptop to start it appears to take forever.

So a software trigger to reboot is instant. So here is my question. What's the difference with starting up from the POWER BUTTON that makes the boot so slow with an SSD? (The power button works fine with a standard mechanical HDD)

Kind regards
Chris

Chris,

Just as an aside :

If you are thinking about upgrading the system listed in your specs, now may a good time to do it. That 775 motherboard and e5500 are well off the pace now. Depending where you live, you could replace mobo, cpu and ram for very little and get a bit jump in performance and function.
In the UK it can be done for as little as £55 ~approx 63 euro ~approx $73

Hi All,
Greets,
@Chris Nicola : Sir,

1. Perhaps this is odd ( Red Marked! ) :



It sounds the storage emulation settings in bios has been selected as IDE which is poor & old but should not be a problem if your SSD is compatible with it! Mostly, IDE does not need storage controllers drivers support from operating systems & is good for legacy OSs , Xp & below. But I would not use that mode even for XP. I would enable at least AHCI & would slipstream AHCI storage drivers into XP SP3 Iso with nlite.
The odd thing is red marked & i would like to see the same Disk Management view with a boot from HDD!

2. When you clone a HDD to a SSD the SSD will work as a HDD and it may have to adjust some settings. But it should work without any issues.
- With a clean install, deleting all partitions, you start from scratch and there is no explanations to not work.
I agree with most of it but not word to word. As i know : when cloning & migrating from HDD to SSD with Macrium Reflect, one should clone/system image the HDD and then drag & drop the partitions to the SSD. The drag & drop itself sets everything right on the SSD as well.
Besides, I have seen many people switching to AHCI with SSD, even degrading from RAID, & run with success. Don't know why! But as your configuration is IDE, It should not be a problem until your SSD is backward compatible with it!
Apart from above, i agree with the fact that if you initiate clean installation on SSD, there should not be any reasons as to why SSD don't work!

3. I have attached the boot log file from the very slow boot.
I have attached the boot log file from the very fast boot. (please see below for the explanation)*. Both look boot log files identical. So I don't think the problem is with Windows drivers or the mbr.
Normally, One should not enable Fast Boot in bios with win7 & always set it to Normal/Full
Both look boot log files are not identical. They are 38 & 39 KB.
Can't say the problem is not due to drivers or bad mbr. May be your chipset and/or storage drivers. Did you try installing win 10 & win 8 ?

4. If I go to msconfig and select normal startup with all devices and drivers and I click to reboot to take effect, then it boots from the ssd into Windows in a few seconds.
Another major point : This seems critical. May be there is a component that is required & has been switched off from the startup. When you switch to normal startup, that driver or service is available & the boot is normal. So, make 'Normal Startup' default, Restart, Shut Down & do Cold Start. How is the Cold Start now ? Don't mix it with reboot!

5. Also, if I select reboot from a Windows 7 bootable CD it boots from the ssd and windows is loaded in a few seconds.
If I select shutdown and then press the power button on the laptop to start it appears to take forever.
Earlier you were mixing Reboot with Normal Startup & now with bootable CD!
I could only make out that a Cold Start is taking too much time as you say forever & a reboot is always faster & flying. Don't mix bootable cd with reboot, at a time it is either booting from bootable CD or SSD! To avoid any confusions : Boot into SSD, Eject the bootable medias ( CD/DVD/USB drive ) and then restart & check the duration. To say again disable Fast Boot & select Normal Boot according to your motherboard options. As i know, windows 7 is not compatible with Fast Boot & i don't know how it can complicate with SSD.
Besides, you should disable the in-built Disk Defragmentation utility & may be some other things with SSD But i think that's a later part.

6.What's the difference with starting up from the POWER BUTTON
Perhaps here is an answer :
Reboot - Wikipedia
Perhaps as said by Megahertz07 ,
The main difference is the power supply state
May power be a problem ? Can't say. You can try putting win 7 on high performance power plan. & disabling power saving settings in Bios and/or device manager if any. But, before changing power settings in bios there are surely some other things to take into account first. You can try High Performance Power plan in windows 7.
To say again : Don't mix/confuse cold/warm boot with other factors & give things try/consider independently.

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