Neither HDD or SSD are showing up in my UEFI boot menu.

Lt Mashumaro

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Alright, so before the "incident" happened, everything worked perfectly. By incident, I mean when my mother-in-law's cat stepped on top of my tower and held my power button down, which forced my computer on and then forced it back off again. Yes, my power button in on TOP of the case. The computer was in hibernate mode when this happened.
When I go into my UEFI, I see this under boot options:
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That is my optical drive and my card reader, neither of which have any bootable operating systems on it. However, when I press F12 to go into my boot menu, my SSD and HDD are both listed. I found a thread on this forum saying to unplug all of the SATA cables from my motherboard and then plug them back in, one-by-one, starting with the one that has my OS on it, but that didn't help. My fiance keeps saying that I need to repair my MBR, but my computer boots just fine when I select the correct drive. I could give that a try, but I don't know which programs are legitimate programs and which are going to give my computer AIDS.
I run Windows 10, have a 970A-DS3P Gigabyte motherboard, this SSD, and this HDD if any of this information helps.
 


As I mentioned earlier, everything was working as it should have been before the fat lard of a cat stood on the power button, meaning that it booted right up to my SSD without having to press F12 to pick a drive to boot from. I don't know how the cat shutting my computer off threw a theoretical wrench into my system's gears, but somehow it did and I don't know how to fix it.

 
Just to confirm...as things stand now (setting aside the "UEFI boot menu") your only problem is that you need to press the F12 key upon bootup to bring up the boot menu and then you can select the boot drive to boot to your OS. That's right, isn't it?

You might want to respond to madmatt's question.
 


Eh, I was asleep. Just waking up and getting to this post. I'll try that now.

UPDATE: Well, now it found my HDD but not my SSD.
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I'm not entirely sure how to find that, but from what I understand, no. I've looked all over the place and no drives are appearing other than the two that are listed in the screenshot.

Update: Apparently I had been ignoring the 'Hard Drive BBS Priorities' because it didn't have a little blue box next to the text like the other options did. I found it, set it to boot from my SSD and now my problem is solved. Thanks for pointing out something incredibly obvious.