Why my Aspire laptop does not boot first from SSD despite UEFI/BIOS boot priority setting

PeterSosin

Hi
I own Acer Aspire F15 F5-573G-73BD. SN: NXGFHSA0046290062A7600
This laptop comes with 1Tbytes HDD. I discovered that this laptop has M.2 SATA connector and I decided to buy for it SSD. I bought WD SSD 250G M2 SATA Blue. I installed it -works perfectly (checked with WD tools). Than I transferred Windows 10 with EaseUs Todo Backup Home Edition ver 12 using command System Clone. After this I rebooted my laptop, during stratup I pressed F12 to invoke Boot menu selected my new SSD and I successfully booted from my new SSD. Then I started BIOS/UEFI and change boot priority so my laptop always boots from SSD first. Unfortunately this does not work for some reason. Every time I boot my laptop it boots from HDD disregarding boot priority setting in BIOS/UEFI. Only when I pressed F12 and invoke Boot Menu and select SSD then I am able to boot SSD. SSD is always second in boot menu. I upgraded to latest BIOS (ver 1.27) for my laptop but this did not help. The laptop still behaves the same as described above. Selecting SSD via Boot menu every time you reboot laptop is very inconvenient particularly if you have to do automatic Windows Updates/Upgrades. Can you help with this problem?
Peter

StevenGen

Hi Peter, the thing that you are doing wrong is that you still have the OLD spinner HDD connected and the OP system boots from that. Do the following:

1. Make sure that all your files have been cloned onto the new SSD with the EaseUs Todo Backup
2. Take the old spinner HDD out and only boot with the NEW cloned “WD SSD 250G M2 SATA Blue” SSD.
3. Change the BIOS boot order so that its No1 “Boot” priority in BIOS is your NEW “WD SSD 250G M2 SATA Blue”
4. Boot only with the new cloned WD SSD 250G M2 SATA Blue
5. After and when you are 100% sure that the new (WD SSD 250G M2 SATA Blue) has all your files from your OLD spinner HDD and OP system working, format the old spinner HDD and use it as a slave drive if you want to use that OLD spinner HDD as a slave?

This is how your BIOS "Boot" order should look like (btw, forget No3 as in this caption a USB pen drive was connected to this system when BIOS caption was done):