Windows 10: SSD not showing up in boot order in BIOS

I have an SSD that I want to use as my boot drive. I recently cloned my 250GB HDD to my 240GB SSD with Macrium Reflect (I want to put the operating system on the SSD and use the HDD for storage of videos, large games, etc.) This SSD shows up in task manager, but when I go into BIOS to change the boot order, my SSD is not listed. Just to make sure my SSD is working fine and boots, I unplugged the hard drive and my PC booted just fine to my SSD. However, when the HDD is plugged in, the SSD is completely ignored. Any tips? I have done a lot of searching online but have not found anything that works in my situation.

Specs:

HP Compaq 3005 SFF

AMD Athlon II X2 B24

AMD Radeon R5 240

8GB DDR3

250GB HDD

240GB SSD

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Cannot boot from SSD, get sent back to BIOS

I have recently got a new SSD for my desktop and wanted to do a fresh install of windows and replace my current HDD, giving me a fresh slate. I go through the standard windows installation with a USB, and unplug the USB after windows has been installed onto
the SSD, the computer will then restart and I get put back into the BIOS. My issue is that once i do this, every-time, no matter what I do when i try to boot to the SSD I get sent back to the BIOS, here is a list of what I've tried:

• Changing boot order
• unplugging every other SATA cable except for the one connected to the SSD
• plugging the SSD SATA cable into the lowest number SATA port on my motherboard
• Plugging in the SSD SATA cable into the port used by my disk drive
• Enabling and disabling safe boot in the BIOS
• enabling and disabling CSM in the BIOS
• Setting the boot CSM to "UEFI only" (does not recognize the SSD anymore)
• Installing windows from the USB with the SSD being the only drive attached
• using the same SATA port as my unplugged HDD for my SSD

When in the BIOS the SSD is the only possible boot device recognized by the motherboard, the BIOS does recognize the SSD as a bootable drive. I've checked the SSD when booting from my HDD and all the necessary windows files seem to be there. When attempting
to boot i get a black screen with a single flashing white line in the top left, then it proceeds into the BIOS.

I have no idea what's wrong and I have found nothing that can fix it. if it's necessary here is my hardware:

ASUS Z97-A

Intel I5-4670K

NVIDIA GeForce 1070

8 GB RAM

A sound card (if that's relevant)

Storage:

HDD: Seagate 1TB

SSD: WD 1TB SSD "3D NAND" (New Drive)

 

Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's bios menu.

Hi Matthew,

There are several possible reasons as to why your computer is not detecting an SSD drive. This could be caused by incorrect BIOS settings or device drivers that need to be updated. Since you already tried the suggestion of Andre Da Costa and this allowed
your computer to detect the SSD already, we would like to further clarify your concern by asking the questions below:

• If you were already able to install Windows on the SSD, have you already attempted to change the boot order in the BIOS menu?
• Which version of Windows did you install on the SSD?
• What other troubleshooting steps have you attempted?

We look forward to your response to our queries.

 

new ssd, installed win 10, first in boot order but still boots from old hard drive.

It only shows the os on the previous hard drive and not the one on the ssd. I am confident that if I unplug the other hard drives it will boot from the ssd just fine as it did several times during setup. I did learn that I had to unplug all the other
drives when installing on the ssd as this is the only way the ssd would get the efi and recovery partition that a boot drive seem to need. Disk management also shows the ssd as a "basic data partition", but before I plugged the other hard drives back in it
was listed as a system, boot,.... partition.

It seems that having two windows installations on separate drives and switching between them isn't as simple as doing it with just the bios boot order.