So, I decided to take IrvSp advice and go through the "Image, reinstall, restore" process, so I downloaded the Macrium Reflect, and created the restore disk. At the verification stage, when I ensured that the recovery USB actually booted right, I decided to inspect the drives as Macrium saw them right out of the BIOS. Here is where I got a kick out of what I saw.
Preface, I too cloned the HDD with Paragon to my Samsung SSD, and I also tried to disconnect the HDD, plugging the SSD to the SATA port 0 and the HDD to port 1. I would have imagined this would have set the disk order to SSD disk 0 and the HDD to disk 1, but that is not what happens.
Also, in windows, the SSD is Drive C, whereas the HDD is Drive E. This is what I would have expected to see in Macrium. To my surprise, and aha moment... this is what I see from Macrium.
As you can tell from the image below, out of the BIOS, the old HDD is still being recognized as the C drive. Here in lies what I think is the issue with the upgrade is.
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