Question Clonned ssd

[yuuyio]

I have a laptop. Decided to buy a cheap ssd to spead it up a little(1500mb/s write | 500mb/s read). I had stuff in my C: drive (where the os is installed) which i wanted to keep so I decided to clone my hdd partion to my new ssd. The ssd is 128GB and my C: drive was 118 so there was no problem cloning. No errors nothing. I used minitool partition wizard. Then proceeded to test the new part and how fast it was. Before it was booting for around 1min now it's boot time was 40-50 secs. Not quite the 10 second boot time i expected. So i dag around the forums and found out that it may still be booting from the hard drive. I opened my bios and I was told to change the UEFI setting to Legacy but then it didn't boot. So i changed it back to UEFI and set my ssd as the boot disk. It still took 40-50 secs. And i tried it a few times. Then I saw some guy running it from f12 not the bios menu(bios opens with f2 on my laptop. I had to enable some kind of setting to access the f12 menu). Then i had around 10sec boot time. I thought this fixed it and went to test it. Next few boots were all in the 40-50secs range again. I decided to try the f12 menu again but it didn't open. Then I found out how to see from which disk i'm booting from(PowerShell/diskpart/list volume) I saw that i was still booting from the HDD. In the bios the main boot disk is set to my ssd. I read that i should see if it boots without the HDD and that's what i did. I booted with no problem around 10-15 secs boot time. Before i removed the HDD i had 3 disks C: I: D: (C: and D: is the drive I: is the ssd). When i booted with only the ssd there was no I: and D: drive.(as i said the ssd has 118GB's of data on it) and the C: drive had 118GB. Then i put back my hdd and booted. Again a slow boot. I checked from which disk i booted and it was from C: drive with 243GB's(My HDD partition). Again i had I: and D:. What can I do to boot from my ssd without removing the hdd or deleting any of the files on any of the both storages? (I'm sorry if i posted this on the wrong place)

 

[mitch074]

You have to change the disk boot order in your BIOS - if it allows you (more often than not it does, but it's very often a barely visible option like a "+" next to the "disk" boot method or under another entry such as "disk boot priority" or whatever). Another thing you can do is, since you're using the Legacy boot method, is use a partition editor to unset the "boot" flag on the C: drive on your HDD - this way the BIOS won't try to boot from it.

 

[mitch074]

The long, clean method is to delete all partitions from your SSD, remove your HDD, disable "legacy" boot in your BIOS, install Windows from a bootable USB key and once done, reinstall your HDD, leave the BIOS alone and copy your files over.

 

[yuuyio]

You probably didn't understand me because of the confusing story.I can't run the ssd on legacy. When i put it on Legacy it can't recognize my ssd. When it's on UEFI it doesn't recognize my hdd. I just found out.
If I put the the setting on UEFI It starts on the hdd but when i check in the f2 menu it recongnizes only my ssd. I can boot from my ssd from the f12 menu.(and yes i changed the disk priority. That was the first thing i changed. You probably didn't understand that either because of the story)When i make it to Legacy i can't boot the laptop with the ssd it says i don't have a bootable device. I will try to boot it with hdd from the f12 menu and edit this post. Btw all testing is done when the ssd is on first place on the disk priority list.

UEFI Setting:

https://imgur.com/a/smSw3hT

View: https://imgur.com/a/smSw3hT

https://imgur.com/fu3KknB

View: https://imgur.com/fu3KknB

i don't know why there is no pic for the UEFI priority list.
The list is 1st:HDD0 Team(ssd) 2nd:HDD1(blank)

Legacy Setting:

https://imgur.com/kIZUI9H

View: https://imgur.com/kIZUI9H

i don't know why but the information screen is the same as UEFI.

https://imgur.com/9fHTdDA

View: https://imgur.com/9fHTdDA

But when we get to the list HDD0 somehow changes it's name to probably to the hdd.

https://imgur.com/2w1M9Su

View: https://imgur.com/2w1M9Su

This is the f12 menu. The hdd is nowhere to be seen. I think it's not supposed to do that.

https://imgur.com/382rcPt

View: https://imgur.com/382rcPt

When i boot from the ssd(UEFI setting + f12 menu). The ssd becomes C: drive and the hdd part goes offline. Is there something i can do or i have to format the ssd and clean instal the os with no other stuff in it?

Fixed it. I just set a letter for the partition in the disk manager.