Acer Aspire TC-1760 SSD Not Booting I keep getting the error message “inaccesable Boot Device”

Hey, I recently bought an Acer Aspire TC-1760 and I put my current SSD (samsung evo 870) with Windows 10 into it, I keep getting the error message “inaccesable Boot Device”, I have entered the BIOS and tried to change the settings to boot from the SSD, but it isn't even listed in the options menu!

I reinstalled Windows (keeping my files and settings) onto the SSD but that still didn't solve the issue, can anybody give me a definitive soloution? I was going to clone the HDD that came with the PC, but if it's not detecting the SSD then I am unsure that will slove the problem of the SSD not being listed.

Help!

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title and issue detail]

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billsey

Do NOT set it to Legacy boot! That is only for OSes older than Windows 7 sp1. Your system will not boot in legacy mode without reformatting the drive and installing a MBR compatible OS on it.

Look at the new drive either using the old computer or or as a second drive on the new computer and verify what partition are on it. You should have a small EFI partition, a slightly larger Recovery partition and a seocn Recovery partition, plus the normal System partition. Your system uses iRST for the drive access and the old one might not have, so drivers for the disk access may not be installed on the old system, breaking the boot process. If that's the case you need to change from iRST or VMD in the BIOS to AHCI in order to boot from the old drive. It's really a lot simpler to use the old drive as a data drive to pull stuff off it instead of trying to boot from it.

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Larryodie

Are you saying that you had the SSD on a another computer ? Was it the same model etc if not I don't think that it will work.

But you maybe do an F12 at turn on but be sure that (Boot Enabled) is ENABLED then change the booting order, Be sure that the original HD is unplugged.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/680091/ssd-not-booting

What PC was the Samsung 2.5"EVO 870 taken from, as if this old SSD is from an MBR/Legacy formatted Win-10 OS and you are putting it into a the TC-1760 that has a GUID (GPT) bios system it won't work and the drive won't be recognized and you will get the error '“inaccesable Boot Device”.

Make sure that the Samsung 2.5"EVO 870 Win-10 is formatted in GUID (GPT) format as “Resetting and Keeping your files” does nothing if the format is wrong, as only putting the same bootable Win-10 2.5"SSD with a Win-10 OS in the same format into the TC-1760 desktop will work,

Its worked for me many times, from one GUID (GPT) bios formatted boot drive from a laptop and inserting it into a totally different GUID (GPT) bios formatted laptop with a 2.5”Samsung EVO 850 SSD and Win-10 OS boot drive, it took a few minutes for the 2.5”SSD to update to the new laptops drivers and then it booted perfectly up. You must have the 2.5” Samsung EVO 870 with the Win-10 with an MBR/Legacy and you are trying to put that drive into the TC-1760s GUID (GPT) format system which won’t work and the SSD won’t be recognised. Or your TC-1760 SATA cable or port is faulty, connect this 2.5”Samsung to a different SATA port and power cable.

Connect the SATA cable and front SD card cable with MB

TC-1760 mobo details

DsLr

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183367#Comment_1183367

Many thanks for your reply! The SSD was in a Acer Aspire XC-600, I'm pretty sure that I did try F12 and nothing happend, but I will give it another go, I do remember that the boot menu is enabled.

DsLr

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183396#Comment_1183396

Thank you for your very detailed reply! The SSD was in an Acer Aspire XC-600, I can't remember if the SSD was formatted MBR or GPT.

Would it work if I got another Samsung Evo SSD & formatted it to GUID (GPT) , then cloned the HDD (WIn 11) in my TC-1760? The HDD in the 1760 works fine it boots up, so no issue with the SATA cable or port.

DsLr

@StevenGen
Update: The SSD that was in the Aspire XC-600 is formatted GUID (GPT) (just checked)

leonaip

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/680091/ssd-not-booting

enter BIOS by restarting the laptop and pressing Esc or F2

go to boot tab, set boot mode to legacy and set secure boot to disabled then in boot priority order, make sure your ssd is number 1 in the list

go to main tab, enable F12 boot menu

finally, go to exit tab and select “Exit Saving Changes” and the laptop restarts

wait for the ssd to be detected or while laptop restarts, repeatedly press F12 to access the boot menu and select your ssd to be booted

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183409#Comment_1183409

When you put your old SSD from the XC-600 with Win-10 into the Aspire TC-1760 did you take the TCs boot drive out and only had the Samsung EVO 870 with Win-10 boot OS? As that is what you should do, you can’t have 2x boot drives.

The Samsung 870 EVO SSDs are reliable drives and very rarely go faulty, I've got one a 2.5" Samsung 850 EVO that is over 5 years and its still going strong working on an old Aspire V3-571G in a workshop being knocked around and its still working like new and going strong. As these SSD drives very rarely go wrong, imo its something to do with the format as it should work and be a PnP. If the TC-1760 works with a usual SATA mechanical drive then it should work with a 2.5"SATA SSD. Try a new 2.5"SSD and install Win-10 onto that and let us know what happens.

DsLr

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183415#Comment_1183415

Absolutly, I disconnected the HDD and used the same connectors and port to connect the SSD, from what you and @leonaip have said there's a possibility that I am not giving it enough time to detect the SSD.

DsLr

@leonaip

I will give this a try leonaip, thank you for the reply to my query.

leonaip

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183420#Comment_1183420

good luck mate @DsLr

you're welcome 😉

DsLr

Tried this, Boot mode is on UEFI, don't see how to change it to legacy. The 1st Boot device is windows boot manager, SSD not listed.

It's just not detecting my SSD at all.. clearly this is outside of my skill set, i will just take it to a PC repair shop and let them have a look, or I might try clonong the HDD onto another SSD and seeing if that solves it.

DsLr

Thank you to all who responded to my query, your advice was very much appreciated.

leonaip

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183426#Comment_1183426

go back to BIOS and set a supervisor password so you can change the boot mode from UEFI to legacy and disable the secure boot

maybe your ssd is not bootable

visit this thread to learn more in cloning from HDD to SSD

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/679864/acer-nitro-5-an515-58-ways-to-clone-and-migrate-windows-operating-system-using-macrium-reflect-etc

DsLr

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183430#Comment_1183430

Thanks again, I will give this another go.. probably not today.

The SSD boots in my Aspire XC-600, and I cloned it from the original HDD that came in that system using EaseUS disk copy.

Larryodie

Maybe try this, just follow instructions, actually you caan download and put it on a USB drive on any computer even a Lenovo etxc then boot it from your computer. You'll have to do a F12 to set the USB as your boot drive , Then install.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d

leonaip

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1183447#Comment_1183447

you're welcome mate, good luck 😉

billsey

Do NOT set it to Legacy boot! That is only for OSes older than Windows 7 sp1. Your system will not boot in legacy mode without reformatting the drive and installing a MBR compatible OS on it.

Look at the new drive either using the old computer or or as a second drive on the new computer and verify what partition are on it. You should have a small EFI partition, a slightly larger Recovery partition and a seocn Recovery partition, plus the normal System partition. Your system uses iRST for the drive access and the old one might not have, so drivers for the disk access may not be installed on the old system, breaking the boot process. If that's the case you need to change from iRST or VMD in the BIOS to AHCI in order to boot from the old drive. It's really a lot simpler to use the old drive as a data drive to pull stuff off it instead of trying to boot from it.

DsLr

I just wanted to stop by and do a quick update, in the end I decided to buy a new SSD and clone the HDD in the new PC, that worked perfectly! So many thanks to all who commented and gave support.

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