I had to rely on free interweb stuff to do the deed - which is risky in my view. Question - I couldn't find anything in Macrium to check existing SSD alignment nor any tool to convert alignment, Is this correct ? Seems odd that's it missed. Question - Is this why the clone worked as SSD alignment not selected or is this a coincidence ? Google suggested running msinfo32 and checking Partition Starting Offset is divisible by 4096 to a whole number - it wasn't. This led me to suspect the SSD alignment. However on a subsequent reboot - this tool failed to report drive health. WD have an SSD drive tool which showed all OK. Third attempt - not setting SSD partitions to delete, letting Delta clone do its thing, not checking Advanced for SSD alignment ( as I assumed as an overwrite it would know ) - success. Second attempt - deleting SSD partitions within Macrium prior to cloning - properties set to SSD alignment. Rebooting back to HDD leaving SSD connected on second cable showed the SSD and all of its files - Macrium reported nothing untoward. Note I always switch drive cables on first reboot after cloning, leaving the old drive disconnected, so no need to alter boot sequence in BIOS.

Wouldn't boot to recovery DVD or Macrium Rescue USB from the blue screen (key F8 from memory ) - I didn't try the Rescue USB from the BIOS. Running Win 10 64 pro on an old Gigabyte motherboard GA-PS55-UD3.įirst attempt to bare 1TB Western Digital SSD, clone properties set to SSD alignment - Blue screen SSD failed to boot 0xc000000e error winload.exe file missing.

I would be grateful for the Board's advice as to what I did wrong plus I have a couple of questions. I have eventually cloned my HDD to SSD with Macrium - but encountered several issues.

Macrium reflect nothing selected ssd