Windows 10: New windows 10 installtion on New SSD - wont boot unless old SSD present

Hello,

I have added an SSD in a Dell OptiPlex 9020.

Installed a fresh version of windows using the installation media.

When I boot, I now get two options of windows, one on the old volume and one on the new.

Both will boot and are usable.

However, if I disable or remove the old SSD 128GB the system reports there is no boot device found.

How can I change the default to boot from the new SSD? Thanks, John.


this is taken when booting from the new 256GB SSD shown as C:





Thanks, John.

:)

 

New SSD wont boot

Hi John

Boot into BIOS, is SATA Mode set to AHCI to enable booting from an SSD drive?

Is the SSD drive set a top of the Boot Priority list?

Did you try connecting that SSD to the SATA Port normally used by your old HDD?

 

New SSD wont boot

Hi there johncenafan, not really sure what you want to do installing Win 10 on a 1TB HDD and now trying to install the same Win 10 ( I take it ) on the new A400 SSD. As already stated above, you need to initialize the new SSD before you can install the
same Win 10 into it as your boot drive.

If you want the new SSD to be your new boot drive instead of the 1TB HDD, then format the 1TB HDD drive as well and use it as your storage drive?

Once you have initialize your SSD drive, give it a name and will become your C-drive after you have successfully installed Win 10 to it?

Go to your system BIOS and select the boot order placing the new SSD with Win 10 installed as your 1st Boot Drive. You need to select F8 on your keyboard to access the boot menu while in your BIOS

As a final safety check, right click the start button, bottom lower left, and select 'Disk Management' and if you have done everything right, then you should be able to see your new SSD drive there already partitioned by Windows ready to go

Hope this will help?

Cheers

George

 

Unable to Boot to Windows 10 after Cloning old SSD to new SSD

Hi,

My old SSD (with windows 10 installed) is not big enough, so I bought a new one,
Samsung 970 EVO with NVMe. After cloning my old SSD to the new one using
Clonezilla and replacing the SSD, I was not able to boot to Windows. I selected the Windows Boot Manager in the BIOS but it got stuck. Even if I got into Windows, it is asking me to reset Windows, which is not what I wanted. The troubleshooting
tools do not work either.

I searched online and found people saying it's probably the BIOS setup. I have a Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI motherboard, and I could not find the NVMe setting here.

I cloned the SSD by creating a disk image of the old SSD onto an external hard drive, and then recovered the image to the new SSD.

I know reinstalling Windows could probably fix the problem, but I don't want to do that. That's why I'm trying to clone my SSD. Can someone help with that? Thanks!

Best,

Allen

UPDATE 6/17/19:

When selecting boot device in BIOS, my old SSD's name is "P0: SanDisk X400 SSD 120G", and my HDD's name is "P1: TOSHIBA DT01ACA 2TB". After installing the new SSD, the name appeared in BIOS does not have the "P0:". It's
only "Samsung 970 EVO plus 500G". Would that be the problem? If yes, how can I fix it?