Ah but what you forgot is.
What interface mode was selected to run the hard drive in the system with the drive you cloned.
You see for example on the other laptop the interface mode in the bios when on that system windows was installed to the hard disk drive.
For the Sata mode it could of been set to Sata, Ahci, or Ide mode.
If you cloned the hard drive what ever mode the Sata interface was set to on the other laptop.
You have to change your Sata mode to the same on your laptop.
If you don`t the drive will be none boot able on your laptop.
Until you set the right mode in your laptops bios.
If you had any setting in the bios also that protected what we call the boot record, master boot record.
And it was enabled in your bios, it can...