X220 Won't boot Samsung 830 SSD

I have a Lenovo X220 laptop with a 320GB Hitachi hard drive,
and it works just fine. But I decided I needed more speed,
so I bought a Samsung 830 SSD for it. I cloned the entire
X220 hard drive to the SSD (using a USB external case and
HDClone4), and everything looks fine on the SSD (when viewed
with Partition Wizard on another machine while the SSD is still
in the USB enclosure). But the SSD will not boot in the X220!
It starts, and in fact it gets as far as saying "Starting Windows",
and then moving the four color dots (of Windows 7) around a
little bit, and then it momentarily flashes the dreaded
white-on-blue screen (so fast you cannot tell what it says),
and then it enters the recovery-menu screen. Bummer!
I called Lenovo tech support and they essentially told me to
GET LOST because they "don't support" me installing an SSD
(even though the X220 User's Guide shows exactly that).
I've used HDClone4 several times in the past (to clone hard
drives for my stable of Lenovo T60 laptops), and it seems to
always work just fine. So why is this not working for my X220
and Samsung 830? Note that, while I don't expect Lenovo to
certify compatibility with every flea-bit SSD on the market,
this Samsung 830 is highly regarded by many well-respected
reviewers (Tom's Hardware, my favorite, in particular).
Has anyone here heard this song before? Is there something
peculiar about the X220 and/or the Samsung 830? I'd sure
appreciate any helpful advice. Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Did you uninstall (+ reboot) Lenovo Rapid Boot before cloning the HDD drive ?

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Hi Svet,
i have bought a Samsung 830 SSD for my gx660r notebook, but i realized that it is not recognized in the BIOS in AHCI mode.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I managed to find out what was wrong:
There is a boot exclusion list in BIOS that I was not aware of, and USB flash drive was on here by default on my machine for some reason. If anybody else have USB boot issues, this is how I got it working:
With a bootable USB Flash Drive plugged in, go into BIOS settings, Startup, select the >Boot header and press enter so you get the boot device order list. Scroll down past the last entry in this list, and you will jump to a boot exclusion list. Find your USB flash drive here and type "!" to get it off the exclusion list and on to the boot device order list. Save BIOS changes. Now it will also show on F12 at boot, and boot.

Anyone had luck with the Samsung 830 SSD?

Opinions? Rumors? Problems?

I've used it before....No issues......
It's also the same drive that apple uses on their Retina Macbook Pro - SM256E and SM512E.
Problem happens when installing them in an older Macbook/Macbook Pros. (2009).
It's a good drive and one of the fastest out there.
It's also currenlty the best one for using the lowest power comsumption.

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