Cant Boot from ssd

christianhangtuah

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Jan 17, 2016
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I just install a m.2 128gb sandisk ssd on my dell 7559, and I just clone my C drive into the ssd, now I have C, D and E drive. The E drive is the ssd which I want to boot from. And I cant find my ssd in the Bios setting, can anyone tell me what to do? I am new to this stuff. Thanks
 
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one thing to be careful of when cloning a windows 10 drive is that you clone the entire drive, not just the C partition, as windows 10 puts an EFI system partition (which is not visible in computer, only in disk management etc) with boot information that you need!
To try and force the PC to find the SSD, what i sometimes to is remove the old drive, just leave in the new one and boot up (you can put it back in later)
Also check to see if you have the latest version of your bios. you can check this on the manufacturers website usually

hope this helps
one thing to be careful of when cloning a windows 10 drive is that you clone the entire drive, not just the C partition, as windows 10 puts an EFI system partition (which is not visible in computer, only in disk management etc) with boot information that you need!
To try and force the PC to find the SSD, what i sometimes to is remove the old drive, just leave in the new one and boot up (you can put it back in later)
Also check to see if you have the latest version of your bios. you can check this on the manufacturers website usually

hope this helps
 
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