Legacy support and Samsung SSD drive

Could you please offer opinions as to why the following is happening.

Bought a Samsung 850 Pro to replace current HDD. Cloning went fairly smoothly using Partition Magic. Samsung software stalled at 17%.

New drive wouldn't boot showing the following message saying 'A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed' with error code 0xc0000225.

Booted in to recovery console from memory stick and ran startup repair but no luck. A quick search online suggested enabling legacy support so I did and it worked. Mostly.

Now it will occasionally just show a blank screen after Lenovo splash screen. The drive light will be flashing all the time.

Only way I've found to get it booting in to Windows 10 again is to disable legacy support then enable it again. But it's been ten years since I had any real interest in computers beyond photo editing and have no idea why this works...

Laptop is a Lenono Y50-70 if that is relevant.

Please help

I would do a check disk on your old drive. you could have some bad sectors etc that could be causing the issue. I have used the samsung software a few times now and had no issues with it.

this may be for vista/win7 but the same can be done for Win8 and 10

http://www.howtogeek.c​om …ck-disk-in-windows-vista/

Thank you. Will try that later

No errors were found on the old drive.

Just run a little test as the drive activity seemed the same as when Windows boots fine.

I entered passcode on blank screen. The drive activity increased as though logging in to Windows normally.

Reinstall your operating system from the original media.

Cloning HDD->SSD is a little different. Is your version of Partition Magic specifically SSD aware?

Also, try using Macrium Reflect Free, it's worked well for me many times. Read the instructions first.

I think there must have been a problem with the source disk. Tried Macrium Reflect which lead to laptop not recognising the drive. I'm blaming my own incompetence for that The time between being handy with computers to being redundant is painfully short he he

Fresh install has everything running like Speedy Gonzales on roller skates zooming through a mountain of coke.

tim wrote in post #17856767
Also, try using Macrium Reflect Free, it's worked well for me many times. Read the instructions first.

Hi Tim,
Can you tell me before I try this if this program installs a service that remains running all the time, etc.
I used to use "Drive Image" and early (think Windows 98/XP) versions of Acronis, and liked them just fine. I tried a more recent install of Acronis on Windows 7 and immediately had to uninstall and do a system restore as it had installed a plethora of unwanted constantly running goop that they feel is part of the program, but IMHO was all totally unnecessary and unwanted.

I'd love a good "clean" disk imaging tool.

Gungnir wrote in post #17856915
I think there must have been a problem with the source disk. Tried Macrium Reflect which lead to laptop not recognising the drive. I'm blaming my own incompetence for that The time between being handy with computers to being redundant is painfully short he he

Fresh install has everything running like Speedy Gonzales on roller skates zooming through a mountain of coke.

Glad you got it going!

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #17856969
I'd love a good "clean" disk imaging tool.

Check out "Image for Windows". I've been using it for years both to making image backups and clone disk by restoring the image onto a new disk. It has a simple GUI and even a CLI which makes it work well through the Windows task scheduler or a batch file.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #17856969
Hi Tim,
Can you tell me before I try this if this program installs a service that remains running all the time, etc.
I used to use "Drive Image" and early (think Windows 98/XP) versions of Acronis, and liked them just fine. I tried a more recent install of Acronis on Windows 7 and immediately had to uninstall and do a system restore as it had installed a plethora of unwanted constantly running goop that they feel is part of the program, but IMHO was all totally unnecessary and unwanted.

I'd love a good "clean" disk imaging tool.

I don't think so. I run it from a USB stick, outside Windows. Once you install it in Windows and create the USB you can uninstall it. You can run it from Windows as well, but I don't, I figure a disk image will be better if the disk isn't running an operating system at the time.

Awesome on both counts. thanks.

I had a laptop HDD that I tried to clone to a Samsung SSD using both the Samsung software and Macrium Reflect Free with zero luck. Same issue as the OP that it got to a certain % complete then failed. If I recall correctly, every time I ran chkdsk /F it found and tried to repair errors, so I concluded that the drive was too faulty to clone.

tim wrote in post #17857082
You can run it from Windows as well, but I don't

I did, when converting to SSD. It worked fine.