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December 30th, 2017 10:00

Swapping boot SSD problems.

Hello. I have an m17x r4 alienware laptop. It is currently set to having a 120 gb SSD as it's boot drive (with windows 10 installed on it). I have a secondary 750gb HDD. What I am ultimately trying to do is swap the smaller 120 gb SSD with a larger 500 gb SSD. But first I want to clone my drive so I dont have to manually install everything. So I tried swapping out my HDD with the new SSD, but I get the following error:

"Check cable connection!

PXE-MOF : Exiting Intel PXE ROM.

No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"

When I put my HDD back in, things work fine. Not entirely sure what is happening here. Would anyone be able to help me? Or explain to me a better way to do what I am trying to do, if there is one. As I said above, all I want to do is upgrade my 120gb ssd with a 500gb ssd.

Thank you,

-Adam

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December 30th, 2017 13:00

Are you certain Windows is installed on the 120 G SSD?  It sounds like it's not -- that Windows is running from the hard drive, with the SSD as a cache for it.  

Open the disc manager with the system booted normally and check to see how the system is currently set up.

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