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How to fix bios not detecting my 2 drives

Anonymous
2025-01-03T02:59:47+00:00

I have 3 drives. A 500gb nvme SSD, 1tb Samsung SSD , and a 2tb hard drive. I was previously on windows 10 downloaded on my 500gb SSD. I was trying to install windows 11 on my new Samsung SSD that I put in my pc. I booted up my flash drive and installed windows to the new SSD. Note that I still have a windows 10 on my 500gb SSD. Once Windows 11 booted up on my desktop all my files were gone but my drives were still visible on file explorer and all of the files were there. In bios, my 500gb SSD and 2tb hard drive isn't detected on boot up but my 1tb Samsung SSD is. Windows seemingly ignored me choosing my Samsung SSD to install windows and installed it on my hard drive, as I can see it is the new C drive that says its boots windows 11 (which doesn't even make sense because my bios doesn't even detect my hard drive). Is there any way I can get my bios to detect my 2 drives or did the windows 11 installation process brick both of them?

Basically to sum up my questions briefly:
How can I get my bios to see my 2 drives?

How can I delete windows 10 on my nvme SSD and move windows 11 from my hard drive to my samsung SSD?
Is there any way to do the above questions while maintaining all of my files and personal data?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T20:22:12+00:00

    I backed up my drives and I’m going to format and restore them to remove windows 10 on my ssd and 11 on my hdd. I will then unplug both drives and reinstall windows 11 on my new ssd.

    It seems like everything on my PC has been wiped. All of my apps, programs, and shortcuts are gone from the start menu, control panel, and desktop. However, when I check my drives in file explore all my files programs and games are still there.

    For example, I can see the app folders under my program files, I can open them and they run, but when I search for these apps, they don’t appear in the system, as if windows isn’t connected to them anymore.

    Is there anyway to restore or reconnect these programs and files without having to reinstall everything manually?

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T20:06:06+00:00

    Yes I only see 1 drive listed in the boot options. I don’t know why this is the only option. Shouldn’t I be able to boot into my other ssd with windows 10? This ssd doesn’t even have windows 11 on it, my HDD does.

    I don’t see any dual boot options and the boot up takes a couple minutes. The 2tb drive had mostly games on it.

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  3. Neil D 33,095 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-01-04T10:12:53+00:00

    So in the bios the disks must be detected or windows wouldn't have them available. Do you mean they are not all listed in the boot options. You should see windows boot manager there and should be set as the boot item.

    When you have a dual boot as you are describing windows should present a boot screen listing the available windows OS to boot from. I assume you don't see that.

    What was on the HDD before windows installed itself there?

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T07:59:52+00:00

    So you longer have the option to boot Windows 10?

    If Windows 11 is able to boot can you give a screenshot of Disk Management in your reply.

    Yes I don’t see my drive that has windows 10 as an available option to boot in my bios. I only see my Samsung ssd which doesn’t even have windows

    Here is the disk manager https://imgur.com/kt4oefX

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  5. Neil D 33,095 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-01-03T16:42:11+00:00

    So you no longer have the option to boot Windows 10?

    If Windows 11 is able to boot can you give a screenshot of Disk Management in your reply.

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