I can only boot in my new SSD through the HP boot menu (pressing F9 during startup)

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I can only boot in my new SSD through the HP boot menu (pressing F9 during startup)

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Today, I got a brand new crucial p3 plus 1TB SSD for my HP Envy x360 cp0010ca on windows 10 home. I already have a 1TB HDD in the same laptop, and I bought an SSD because I have an extra SSD slot inside of my laptop. I cloned my data from my HDD to my SSD using AOMEI Backupper version 6.3. Before cloning my data, I converted my SSD's partitioning style to GPT to match my HDD's, as I heard that issues can arise if the partitioning style does not match. I successfully cloned my data, and I went to the HP BIOS menu by using F10 key during startup in order to change the boot priority to the new SSD, but it was not anywhere to be seen in the BIOS. I decided to restart my laptop again and try to access the boot menu using F9. Through the F9 boot menu, I was able to boot into my new SSD on windows 10 home. Although, because my boot priority has not changed, if I try to restart my laptop, it boots back into the HDD.

I am genuinely not sure how to change my boot priority. After doing some research online, some people said to physically disconnect the HDD from the laptop or to completely wipe the HDD in order to force windows to use the SSD.

My goal is to have everything including my operating system, apps, and games on my SSD, and to completely wipe the HDD in order to use it for any large extra files I may not currently need.

I have tried to physically disconnect the HDD from my laptop but I am unsure of its safety, as the HDD is held down with some kind of plastic and I cannot get it out. I can disconnect a ribbon cable but I am unsure of whether or not it actually originates from my HDD, and I fear that I may accidentally break it.

Disk Manager Screenshot (if you need it) (I am also unable to see this image, please inform me if you cannot see it as well):

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You may need to boot from a flash drive to be able to see both bootloaders.

1-Create a USB device with an installation image.

You can create using the media creation tool, download it on this link.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo...

2-Enter on BIOS/UEFI and change to boot from the USB device.

3-On the installation screen click on "Repair your PC" in the left bottom

4-Click on "Troubleshoot" and then the Advanced Options page will appear.

5-Click on "Command Prompt".

6-Then check if you a able to see both bootloaders and set the SSD as the default.

If you are still not able to see both boot loaders, you will need to disconnect your HDD to see what is preventing the boot from the SSD.

To disconnect the HDD, you just need to "Release the zero insertion force (ZIF) connector (1) to which hard drive cable is connected, and then

disconnect the hard drive cable from the system board. ", you can see how to do it in page 35 of this manual.

https://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06001791...

Note: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

After disconnecting the HDD, try to boot from the SSD and check which error message you will receive, take a photo and attach it here.

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Answer 2

Looks like everything is correct, the problem might on the Windows bootloader settings. You can try this procedure to change the default boot partition on the Windows bootloader.

1-Restart your computer while holding the "Shift” button

2-The Advanced Startup menu will open on the boot.

3-Go to Troubleshoot.

4-Now, go to Advanced Options >Command prompt

5-Type this command and press Enter:

bcdedit

6-You should see the information like in the image below. Copy the "identifier" from your SSD.

7-Type this command and press Enter to change the default partition:

bcdedit /default {identifier}

Note: Replace the "{identifier}" with the identifier copied in the previous step. You must include the braces ({ }) around the identifier.

8-Close the Command Prompt and check if your reboot computer to check if now will boot from the SSD.

Answer 3

First Screen of Bios settings:

Boot Settings screen in bios:

As you can see, the HDD is visible but not the SSD.

Boot Configuration Screen (Accessed by pressing F9 during startup)

I am only able to access my SSD from this screen, by going to Boot From EFI File, then selecting the file system that contains NVMe
in the name, then selecting EFI, then selecting <Boot>, and lastly selecting bootx64.efi. I have provided images of this below:

Only after all this, it boots into the SSD, but it still does not boot into the SSD automatically if I restart the computer.

Disk Management Screen (disk 1 is my SSD, which I am currently using):

Answer 4

Hi, I'm Robinson, and I’m happy to help you today.

Please attach a photo of the first screen of the Bios settings and a photo of the boot configuration screen to help identify what is preventing you from configuring your SSD as the primary boot option.

Also, the screenshot of the Disk Management again. You can see at this link how to include a screenshot in your post.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/feedback/fo...

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