SSD upgrade failed - not found boot drive

I need your help guys... I've been everywhere on the net, try different methods to clone my Windows 7 for SSD and failed repeatedly.

Here is my setup, I have a HP Envy 14 with a 500 GB HARD drive. I bought an SSD to speed things up.  I have 2 OS (dual boot),

Win7 and win 8, on which Win8 is the default operating system (according to the news of easyBCD).   I just want to clone the Win7 OS part.

(Win7 - C drive), (Win8 - F drive) and recovery on the D drive.

I tried these t hings upafter the defragmentation and backup)

1. While on Win7, I created a copy of the image, but strangely, thought, once the process is complete the copy of the image is Win8

I've used EaseUs to do backup and clone Drive C

Swapped with the SSD HARD drive and got a message could not find a boot disk

2. because I failed on the first try, I formatted the SSD and opt instead for a new installation.

-J' I downloaded the ISO of Win7, swapped the (empty) SSD newly formatted

-Started on the Win7 Installer, and have the operating system installed on the SSD.

-J' thought that I was until I noticed assigned HP keys do not work, the USB drivers do not work, I could not turn on/off wifi. The reason may be the missing drivers (bloatware since the HP recovery disk - given that I didn't copy that one)

3. after the attempts, I formatted the SSD drive. I read somewhere to use the HP recovery instead.

-J' cloned the disc to my HDD to the SSD HP recovery

-Swapped with the SSD HARD drive

-Started my laptop and not found boot drive... (even after pressing F11)

can you tell me a better way to do it?   Or if someone could point out what I did wrong, or perhaps missed?  Really appreaciate... This was bugs me for the last days...

Hello wawipack,

Welcome to the HP Forums! I hope you enjoy your experience!

I understand that you're having trouble to locate the boot device. I'll do what I can to help you! To start, make sure that you have tried all the steps in this document from HP: Solve Boot Device Error Message not

If this does not help, I suggest to do a reinstall of HP standard on the SSD. Once done, do a restore to a previous image in the OS Windows, is not using any bootable media.

These steps should help get back you on track. Please provide your results. Thanks for choosing the HP Forums. Have a great day!

Mario

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