PC Booting problem

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So i spent the entirety of my Sunday trying to solve a black screen restart loop because i decided to "Update" my windows 10 that froze at 100% and made me perform a force shutdown on the PC. From the hours of googling for answers and trying to implement all the "solutions" to my situation, i ended up having to perform a clean install of windows 10 from a USB drive.

Good news is that it worked. Bad news is that it wiped everything.

So now my current question is that my PC is now set to boot from this new "UEFI" spot from bios that was created from the clean install but i still see my SSD boot spot which contains the black screen restart loop. Is there anyway to transfer the currently working windows 10 boot over to my SSD?

Also when i try to rearrange the order in which the PC boots from the SSD it asks me to choose a valid boot spot and ultimately makes me restart to bios.

I apologize for my lack of technicality through my question and thank you for your time.
 
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Clean install wipes everything from OS drive and re-installs windows. There is nothing to recover. Your data has been overwritten.

I will repeat once more:
System is installed in UEFI mode, so only UEFI boot option will work (Windows Boot Manager (P1...)).
Legacy boot option will not work (Sata SM), since you did clean install by wiping OS installed in legacy mode and reinstalled it in UEFI. You can disable legacy mode boot option. There's no point in having it. It just confuses you.
Everything looks good there. I don't exactly understand the problem.

Are you confused about boot priority options in BIOS?
System is installed in UEFI mode, so only UEFI boot option will work. Legacy boot option will not work. You can disable it.

What was that about transferring to SSD? Isn't windows currently installed on SSD? You have only one drive in system.
 


[1] https://ibb.co/bEr4oJ
[2] https://ibb.co/cg6n8J

Okay so from picture [1] This is how my priority is arrange and from picture [2] you can see that i have windows boot manager (P1...) and Sata SM: samsung... Before the clean windows install i was booting from Sata SM which contained all my files on my PC but i can no longer get into it due to the black restart loop or the PC telling me its no longer a valid boot priority. So now i have to boot from Windows Boot Manager (P1...) but the problem with this is that all my files are gone and so my original question is there some way for me to transfer/recover all my original PC files between the two boot priorities?

Also what would disabling legacy boot do?

When you said i have only one drive... Does that mean Sata SM no longer exist and is just there? If so can i remove it from the system?
 
Clean install wipes everything from OS drive and re-installs windows. There is nothing to recover. Your data has been overwritten.

I will repeat once more:
System is installed in UEFI mode, so only UEFI boot option will work (Windows Boot Manager (P1...)).
Legacy boot option will not work (Sata SM), since you did clean install by wiping OS installed in legacy mode and reinstalled it in UEFI. You can disable legacy mode boot option. There's no point in having it. It just confuses you.
 
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