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Your BIOS needs to be set to AHCI for your SSD and not IDE, because IDE will impact on the drive's performance.OK, see, I do not know these basic things. I just thought it HAD to have the C-letter or it wouldn't have the ability to boot anyway.You are over-complicating this.
You will never know if you succeeded if you have 2 drives connected.
Disconnect the old drive.
Does the PC then boot? Yes or no.
If yes, it's booting from the SSD since the SSD is the only drive connected.
If no, either do the clone again or try System Repair.
I'll try to copy it again and instantly try to boot with it on its own.
By the way, I don't need to change anything in the BIOS since it's an SSD?
I read something about changing the IDE-setting... But not sure if it was necessary.
Then I'll try this afterwards, cause it sounds really handy.Partition Wizard really is your best bet to sort out your partitioning needs.
Free Partition Magic alternative. Free Partition Manager Software for Windows 7/VISTA/XP/2000 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2000.
Once you've downloaded the ISO and burned it to disc you can boot into it and sort your drives out.
Just make any changes you need when you've booted into PW, apply the changes, and then boot back into Windows on completion.
Thanks for your patience with my incompetence on this. XD