Hi everyone, I hope someone can help with this problem that's driving me crazy. I'm trying to upgrade my Asus UX32VD from a 500GB Hitachi HDD to a 250GB Samsung 840 SSD to improve speed and battery life. The physical installation is easy, but the software side is giving me fits. Some notes about this ultrabook:
1) No CD drive or recovery/Windows disks, nor do I have a USB CD drive.
2) The stock HDD has OS, data, recovery and restore partitions (4 total).
3) There is also a 32GB SSD soldered to the mainboard to serve as a faster disk cache, but it is not visible in disk management.
4) The Win8 installation on the system is apparently an OEM version, so I can't use downloaded Win8 images without buying a new license, which I do not want to do.
I used EaseUS Todo Backup to clone the stock HDD to an external USB HDD, attached the USB HDD and the Samsung SSD to my desktop, cloned again, and installed the SSD to the laptop. It appeared to be correct in disk management, and I did not alter the partitions in any way. Opening the cloned disk using my desktop has the OS and Data partitions marked as primary, but neither as active. That option is grayed out in Disk Management for all partitions.
On boot in the laptop, a blue Recovery screen pops up saying winload.efi is missing or corrupt. Any ideas? I don't care if the machine is reset to the stock software configuration (it's new), but I do want the SSD in there.
1) No CD drive or recovery/Windows disks, nor do I have a USB CD drive.
2) The stock HDD has OS, data, recovery and restore partitions (4 total).
3) There is also a 32GB SSD soldered to the mainboard to serve as a faster disk cache, but it is not visible in disk management.
4) The Win8 installation on the system is apparently an OEM version, so I can't use downloaded Win8 images without buying a new license, which I do not want to do.
I used EaseUS Todo Backup to clone the stock HDD to an external USB HDD, attached the USB HDD and the Samsung SSD to my desktop, cloned again, and installed the SSD to the laptop. It appeared to be correct in disk management, and I did not alter the partitions in any way. Opening the cloned disk using my desktop has the OS and Data partitions marked as primary, but neither as active. That option is grayed out in Disk Management for all partitions.
On boot in the laptop, a blue Recovery screen pops up saying winload.efi is missing or corrupt. Any ideas? I don't care if the machine is reset to the stock software configuration (it's new), but I do want the SSD in there.
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