how to use macrium reflect to change boot drive

The fix for how I can use the new SSD as a boot drive would be much appreciated? MY HHD is painfully slow and runs constantly. When both drives are plugged in and the system boot with the HHD, both the SSD drive and HDD are recognized and display in the device manager and file explorer without error messages Unfortunately the logo remained on my screen for over 5 minutes when I rebooted and it booted to the HHD again. Once and only once during the many reboot attempt did I get the initial black screen with the blue windows logo without hearing the pitter-patter of the HHD. I also unplugged the DVD drive with the same result. When I unplug the HDD from the motherboard - I get error message: “Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key”. I even change the internal wires on the motherboard so the SSD was plugged where the HDD was and vice versa with same result.

I initialized the drive, set a drive letter and change the boot sequence so the SSD is the primary boot. Both drives are 1T and are just over half full after cloning. I installed and cloned the SSD drive using Macrium Reflect. Then, replace the NVMe drive, boot into some Macrium USB tool and restore the image file to the new NVMe drive, and. I purchased a WD Blue 3D NAND SSD to replace a Hitachi HHD on my desk top with a MSI H55M-E23 motherboard. Ive done some research online and so far it seems the most recommended solution is to use Macrium Reflect to clone the entire disk, with all the partitions, to an image file and store that on an external hard drive, which I have. I’m looking for advice on how I can get my new SSD to run as the boot drive.

How to use macrium reflect to change boot drive