Bios doesn't show ssd as boot drive

Sebada

I have an Acer Aspire 7 A715-72G-71VZ and when I tried to boot from an 240gb ssd m.2 sata with windows 10 installed (I guess, because I used the windows media installer) it stills boots from either the hdd or usb with the installer.

brummyfan2

Hi,
Ok, give this a try, remove the M.2 SSD, boot with HDD normally, install MiniTool Partition wizard Free, then install M.2 SSD, run MiniTool Partition wizard, use Migrate feature at the top to transfer the contents of HDD to M.2 SSD.
Then remove HDD and try starting the laptop with only M.2 SSD.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/migrate-os-to-ssd-hd.html

brummyfan2

You are welcome, after few restarts the BIOS will remember only OS in the SSD, you can also format the HDD, once you are happy that all the contents have been transferred safely to SSD.

brummyfan2

Hi,
If you have done a clean install of Windows 10, do you still have the old installation in HDD? If so, remove the HDD and the USB installer from the laptop and try booting with only M.2 SSD.

wis

If the plan is to use the HDD as file storage only, save existing files to another location, reformat HDD, then copy files back to HDD.  For future access of those files, it would be more convenient to convert the HDD to an external drive.  Otherwise rebooting would be required.

Sebada

brummyfan2 said:

Hi,
If you have done a clean install of Windows 10, do you still have the old installation in HDD? If so, remove the HDD and the USB installer from the laptop and try booting with only M.2 SSD.

I have done the installation with the hdd still conected. Then I tried disconecting the USB and hdd, but It shows a no bootable device message

Sebada

As I said before, It does show up in Windows. I have uninstalled Windows from it just to do some tests but when I'm in the BIOS' menu it does show up only in the info page but not in the boot one.

brummyfan2

Hi,
Ok, give this a try, remove the M.2 SSD, boot with HDD normally, install MiniTool Partition wizard Free, then install M.2 SSD, run MiniTool Partition wizard, use Migrate feature at the top to transfer the contents of HDD to M.2 SSD.
Then remove HDD and try starting the laptop with only M.2 SSD.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/migrate-os-to-ssd-hd.html

Sebada

brummyfan2 said:

Hi,
Ok, give this a try, remove the M.2 SSD, boot with HDD normally, install MiniTool Partition wizard Free, then install M.2 SSD, run MiniTool Partition wizard, use Migrate feature at the top to transfer the contents of HDD to M.2 SSD.
Then remove HDD and try starting the laptop with only M.2 SSD.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/migrate-os-to-ssd-hd.html

THANKS YOU
ps: When booting its shows me a screen to choose which Windows I want to use, even tough I only have the SSD and both are the same version

brummyfan2

You are welcome, after few restarts the BIOS will remember only OS in the SSD, you can also format the HDD, once you are happy that all the contents have been transferred safely to SSD.