Or you could possibly try putting the old drive back in. Boot into Windows. Download Macrium Reflect. Put SSD in an external enclosure and with Macrium you can clone an exact replica of your old HDD, OS etc. To the SSD MBR included.
If the SATA connection is still good (because your old drive works) then either that SSD well boot right up as long as your BIOS isn't set to RAID or something, or the SSD is dead, incompatible for some odd reason, or... okay those are all my ideas.
Your not on UEFI BIOS and going from Win 7 to Win 8 or something like that are you?
That whole EFI, not EFI thing can be a nightmare especially when running Win 7 and an EFI capable Linux Distro on the same machine.
The EFI BIOS on my ASUS mobo in my power machine - good, fine. The EFI on a little fanless media PC I built '''HOLLY NIGHTMARE''' just to get Windows boot drive run.
Speaking of which you are installing Windows from a USB stick and not a DVD right?
Or you could possibly try putting the old drive back in. Boot into Windows. Download Macrium Reflect. Put SSD in an external enclosure and with Macrium you can clone an exact replica of your old HDD, OS etc. To the SSD MBR included.
If the SATA connection is still good (because your old drive works) then either that SSD well boot right up as long as your BIOS isn't set to RAID or something, or the SSD is dead, incompatible for some odd reason, or... okay those are all my ideas.
Your not on UEFI BIOS and going from Win 7 to Win 8 or something like that are you?
That whole EFI, not EFI thing can be a nightmare especially when running Win 7 and an EFI capable Linux Distro on the same machine.
The EFI BIOS on my ASUS mobo in my power machine - good, fine. The EFI on a little fanless media PC I built '''HOLLY NIGHTMARE''' just to get Windows boot drive run.
Speaking of which you are installing Windows from a USB stick and not a DVD right?
Or you could possibly try putting the old drive back in. Boot into Windows. Download Macrium Reflect. Put SSD in an external enclosure and with Macrium you can clone an exact replica of your old HDD, OS etc. To the SSD MBR included.
If the SATA connection is still good (because your old drive works) then either that SSD well boot right up as long as your BIOS isn't set to RAID or something, or the SSD is dead, incompatible for some odd reason, or... okay those are all my ideas.
Your not on UEFI BIOS and going from Win 7 to Win 8 or something like that are you?
That whole EFI, not EFI thing can be a nightmare especially when running Win 7 and an EFI capable Linux Distro on the same machine.
The EFI BIOS on my ASUS mobo in my power machine - good, fine. The EFI on a little fanless media PC I built '''HOLLY NIGHTMARE''' just to get Windows boot drive run.
Speaking of which you are installing Windows from a USB stick and not a DVD right?