How to set newly installed SSD as primary boot drive

jaydac12

Hi,

I recently installed an SSD on my laptop and did a clean install of Windows 10 on it and did not format my old HDD. I can boot from the SSD as you can see below(SSD is the Volume 6 and the Primary (C:)) 


However, when I go over Boot Manager and BIOS, my SSD is not showing up. So, I can't make my SSD the primary boot drive. Please see below.




Basically, I want to skip the part where I still have to choose what drive to boot from between Volume 6(SSD) and Volume 3(HDD).

Could you guys help?

Thank you in advanced.

andylb

@jaydac12 follow the steps in this thread
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/590125/how-to-change-sata-mode-to-ahci-in-bios-nitro-an515-54-58tj#latest

Please click YES if I have answered your question 

jaydac12

andylb said:

@jaydac12 follow the steps in this thread
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/590125/how-to-change-sata-mode-to-ahci-in-bios-nitro-an515-54-58tj#latest

Please click YES if I have answered your question 

Hi, thank you for your response! However, I've set passwords for the supervisor and user, exit and save, pressed ctrl+s everywhere on the BIOS menu, but no option to change SATA mode to AHCI came out. Then, I just found out that my SATA mode is already set to AHCI and it's detecting my SSD,(see below) but I still can't select my SSD as my boot priority.


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BeritOlam

jaydac12 said:

Thank you in advanced.

Sounds like deja vu with my an515-42 last year--
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/564560/sigh-nitro-5-an515-42-and-more-questions-about-the-m-2-ssd-upgrade

I could see the M2 fine in bios (just like you) and use the drive fine once Windows booted (presumably just like you)....but I could never get the boot option within in the bios to work. Kind of just gave up (as this laptop was going to a family member).

Computer still works fine on the old 2.5in SSD standard, but I really wish Acer were better organized in their hardware department. It was so hard to find any documentation at all on this spare M.2 slot last March, and it's like there's no tech support that can tell me 

BeritOlam

jaydac12 said:

Thank you in advanced.

Sounds like deja vu with my an515-42 last year--
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/564560/sigh-nitro-5-an515-42-and-more-questions-about-the-m-2-ssd-upgrade

I could see the M2 fine in bios (just like you) and use the drive fine once Windows booted (presumably just like you)....but I could never get the boot option within in the bios to work. Kind of just gave up (as this laptop was going to a family member).

Computer still works fine on the old 2.5in SSD standard, but I really wish Acer were better organized in their hardware department. It was so hard to find any documentation at all on this spare M.2 slot last March, and it's like there's no tech support that can tell me "techie" things that should be easy to track down.

BeritOlam

jaydac12 said:

Thank you in advanced.

Sounds like deja vu with my an515-42 last year--
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/564560/sigh-nitro-5-an515-42-and-more-questions-about-the-m-2-ssd-upgrade

I could see the M2 fine in bios (just like you) and use the drive fine once Windows booted (presumably just like you)....but I could never get the boot option within in the bios to work. Kind of just gave up (as this laptop was going to a family member).

Computer still works fine on the old 2.5in SSD standard, but I really wish Acer were better organized in their hardware department. It was so hard to find any documentation at all on this spare M.2 slot last March, and it's like there's no tech support that can tell me "techie" things that should be easy to track down.