Boot from bios

glen33

So I got around to changing my ssd but when I turn on the pc it goes straight into bios. But I don't seem to have an option to boot from hdd or ssd?

Leostat

Do you know if that was the OS drive or the storage drive? At a guess the smaller drive would be the OS drive and if it was that one which was changed you would need to either clone the drive onto it, or re-install windows

glen33

I changed the d drive and os was on c. I used samsung ssd. I have just put the old one back in and it works so I put samsung back in again and straight to bios screen

Leostat

if you leave the SSD out does it still do it?

glen33

I will give it a go

glen33

It goes straight to bios with no ssd in

glen33

I will put it down to I cannot use 500gb ssd in a c24 760

billsey

Did you clone the HDD to the SSD before putting it in? You need to have a boot environment on the SSD before you can boot from it.

glen33

No I didn't.  There was nothing on the ssd apart from one piece of work software

billsey

OK, so backup the stuff that's on there if you need to be able to get back to it, then either clone the HDD to the SSD or do a Windows install to the SSD from scratch. It won't show up as bootable until the boot environment is actually on it.