- Mar 18, 2018
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Hi guys, I'm completely new to all this computer stuff so would appreciate any help. I recently bought a laptop, an acer aspire e15 e5-375, 33BM and installed an SSD to the m.2 slot. I then used macrium reflect to clone my HDD stuff onto the SSD and turned it off. I didn't take out the HDD though, and turned it on and adjusted the BIOS settings to have my SSD boot before the HDD. I also saw that it was already AHCI enabled and enabled the f12 boot manager.
I then save the settings and it turns on again. I check the file explorer to see that my C drive is now the SSD and also the task manager to see that only the C drive disk is being utilized at ~530 read. I believe that this confirmed that my computer was now running on the SSD. I then turned it off again so I could possibly take out the HDD but I looked up the guides online and it seemed a little too complicated at that moment. I didn't remove anything and closed the laptop back up and turned it on.
However, somehow it turned on in safe mode (with no networking, audio, and really small resolution). I then changed the BIOS settings to have the HDD boot before the SSD, but somehow it would still boot to the same safe mode really quickly. I restarted it, this time using the f12 boot manager to select the HDD to start. I don't know if this is important, but the HDD here was listed as the second option, below the SSD.
So that's my conundrum, I'm using my HDD for now until I can fix this SSD issue. Not sure where I went wrong but here's some screenshots I have of disks as well. Screenshot 2 shows the C drive being HDD (because that's the one I'm utilizing currently) and Screenshot 3 shows the E drive being the SSD.
I then save the settings and it turns on again. I check the file explorer to see that my C drive is now the SSD and also the task manager to see that only the C drive disk is being utilized at ~530 read. I believe that this confirmed that my computer was now running on the SSD. I then turned it off again so I could possibly take out the HDD but I looked up the guides online and it seemed a little too complicated at that moment. I didn't remove anything and closed the laptop back up and turned it on.
However, somehow it turned on in safe mode (with no networking, audio, and really small resolution). I then changed the BIOS settings to have the HDD boot before the SSD, but somehow it would still boot to the same safe mode really quickly. I restarted it, this time using the f12 boot manager to select the HDD to start. I don't know if this is important, but the HDD here was listed as the second option, below the SSD.
So that's my conundrum, I'm using my HDD for now until I can fix this SSD issue. Not sure where I went wrong but here's some screenshots I have of disks as well. Screenshot 2 shows the C drive being HDD (because that's the one I'm utilizing currently) and Screenshot 3 shows the E drive being the SSD.
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