Windows 10: Migrated from HDD to SSD - Unable to Reset

Hi Guys,


I was using a HP Pavilion P-045tx (4th Gen i7, 8 GB, 1 TB) which came with windows 8.1 pre-installed. It got updated to Windows 10 Home Single Language 64 bit later.


Due to the 100% disk issue and lag in the overall running, I bought a Samsung Evo 860 256 GB SSD and installed it by removing the optical drive. I used the Samsung Magician software to verify the performance (Initially, the bios wouldnt recognize the SSD and when I digged deeper I saw that the SSD was offline in Disk Management. I just had to right click and make it online). Then I used Samsung Data Migration software to clone the original C Drive to the new SSD after which the SSD Drive became the new C drive.


At this point, everything was going smooth but to have a better response and reorganize everything else, I chose to reset the system. When I tried to do that, it failed, even though there was a 20 GB Recovery drive which was a part of the drive from the time I go the system. I have done resets multiple times before as well. Now, the only solution was to create a bootable USB flashdrive using the Windows Media Creation tool, which I did and used that to do a fresh install in the SSD.


Once the entire process was complete, when the system restarted it showed an error i.e. it couldn't find a drive. I tried again and the same error. I went on to the BIOS boot options and understood that the SSD is not listed in the boot manager. Finally, to run the system I had to install Windows in the HDD again.


Now, my question is:


1. What should I do to make the SSD visible in the boot manager after windows installation? Is there something like an update or settings change I should do in BIOS to make it recognize it? I'm confused because when I cloned the OS, it came in the BIOS boot manager and I just had to give preference to SSD over HDD. My requirement is I want a fresh OS in SSD and the HDD only for storage.


2. Now that you've come this far, please tell me how to remove the various recovery/unallocated drives in the HDD and make it to a single HDD of 1 TB. Since these above mentioned drives comes in between the actual drives, I'm unable to merge them and whenever I right click these drives, no options comes except for help.


Thank you very much in advance for your response.

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