Windows 10: BIOS Recognises old drive, Windows does not.

Hello,I hope someone can help.I have an Aspire XC-895. It came with a HDD running Windows 10. I Installed a compatible SSD and installed windows 10. The SDD then ran an update to Windows 11.If I boot into the HDD I dont want to but then it finds the SDD.If I boot into the SSD What I want it will not see the HDD. BIOS sees the drive, but windows does not, not in device manager, not in disk manager.I have checked the cables, and have tried the drives in different ports. But as mentioned the BIOS sees the HDD and SDD.I want to format the HDD and use it as a storage drive.Help, not sure w

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BIOS won't recognise my new or old SSD boot drive

Hi,

I've got a problem where my BIOS won't recognise my new or old SSD boot drive.

My laptop currently has two hard drives in it: a 500Gb SSD (OS Drive/C Drive) and a 2Tb HDD (data drive only). My OS Drive had been running out of space and I wanted to upgrade it to a bigger version so I purchased a 2Tb SSD.*Smile

I used Macrium Reflect Free to clone the 500Gb SSD drive with the new 2Tb SSD connected via a USB 3.0 hard drive dock. This seemed to go well and after Macrium had completed the process, the new drive was visible in windows and folder structure looked to have been replicated exactly.

I powered down my laptop, opened it up and replaced the old SSD drive with the new one from the dock. I powered my laptop back up into BIOS mode but only the old data drive was visible. *Huh

So I thought ok this is what the Macrium rescue disk I created is for. So I shut down and booted from the rescue disk. I clicked on Fix Windows Boot Problems but no disks appear in the subsequent pop-up dialogue box.

So I thought ok start again. So I powered down and switched the SSD's again to put my old one back in. But now the BIOS doesn't recognise my old SSD either! So now I don't know what to do.*Sad

I tried accessing the SSD via the dock on a different pc to check if the drive got corrupted somehow but the drive is accessible and all files and folders still appear intact and as they were immediately after the clone process.

This is the video I followed up to the 12 minute mark where instead of rebooting and going straight into BIOS, I powered down my laptop and switched the hard drives around as I wasn't sure if I would be able to set the new SSD as boot drive while the old drive was still in the laptop and the new one was docked via USB:



I followed all applicable previous steps for cloning to a larger capacity drive including cloning and re-ordering of partitions and allocation of disk space.

I only have 2 internal hard drive ports and one is already in use with a data HDD.

What can I do?

 

Windows 10 does not recognise external usb dvd drive. NEW METHOD REQUIRED fornfix

So, after a recent update, my father-in-laws laptop has stopped recognising his external dvd drive. It shows up in device drivers as an initio device, and in portable drives, it's listed as e:\ but it doesn't show up as a drive in file manager windows.

This happened previously, and I used a fix listed here

Link to old fix

METHOD 5 and METHOD 6

My problem is, that now he has updated windows to most recent version, this fix no longer seems to work, and if you notice at the bottom of the support methods provides, it specifically states that these methods should NOT BE NECESSARY in the latest updates.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I originally listed the steps detailed in old fix, but formatting disappeared and it became a wall of text, so just provided link and methods used. Please read original methods to see steps I have already taken.

 

bios

Hi all i am new in this forum, i need meanings step by step of each item listed in the bios Phoenix-Award