Not too long ago i built a secondary PC intended to be a slave PC for stream video encoding (Using a Capture Card to take video from my Laptop to stream on twitch via OBS).
In the build, i used 3 old HDDs from laptops i had in storage to stay under budget and still have drives to work with.
Recently i got an SSD to replace the OS drive. the system recognized the SSD as a new drive in disk manager, easy peasy. i used Macrum to do a system clone of the C drive, followed all of the steps to the Tee, and found out 2 things.
First, My bios doesnt recognize the SSD (we'll call this Drive "G"), even when it's the only drive plugged in, only when booting. if i boot windows on the current drive, the SSD is recognized in full. This leads to the second "issue".
Even if i have both the C drive and G drive plugged in, the system doesnt boot, because a THIRD drive has the system recovery installed on it for some reason. We'll refer to this drive as the "D" Drive. Without the D drive plugged in, Windows goes in to a recovery/drive missing loop, and doesnt allow me to proceed in to a "fix" without a Windows USB boot. At the time of writing this, i'm downloading the Windows 10 ISO to a USB since my dedicated one is not with me.
How the recovery partition was installed on a separate drive in the system is a mystery to me, that's never happened in the several years i've been building PCs with multiple drives installed at the initial Windows installation.
However, i now notice that there arent any other partitions on the C Drive other than the Primary Volume (Which has the OS), and an unallocated partition.
So, out of all 4 drives, 1 is empty, the C drive is my OS Drive, the D Drive has the recovery on it, and the G Drive is the SSD "Clone" of the C Drive, but doesnt get recognized in bios for boot purposes. I'll need to use a windows installer ISO to maybe fix this without needing to completely reinstall the OS since i'm not sure where the Key for it is at this moment (Could look back in some Emails).
Regardless of how i carry on with my windows installation (and later installation of my 10 programs), why wont my system recognize the SSD in Bios. makes no sense.
Specs are:
MSI B450I ITX board
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
8GB of Ram (2x4gb)
G: 180Gb Corsair SSD
C: 600Gb 2.5 HDD (only 33Gb used)
D: 500Gb (Recovery Partition, nothing stored on the primary partition)
Sorry for the god-awful wall of text to whoever chips in to help. it just kept adding whatever seemed relevant as i went along.
In the build, i used 3 old HDDs from laptops i had in storage to stay under budget and still have drives to work with.
Recently i got an SSD to replace the OS drive. the system recognized the SSD as a new drive in disk manager, easy peasy. i used Macrum to do a system clone of the C drive, followed all of the steps to the Tee, and found out 2 things.
First, My bios doesnt recognize the SSD (we'll call this Drive "G"), even when it's the only drive plugged in, only when booting. if i boot windows on the current drive, the SSD is recognized in full. This leads to the second "issue".
Even if i have both the C drive and G drive plugged in, the system doesnt boot, because a THIRD drive has the system recovery installed on it for some reason. We'll refer to this drive as the "D" Drive. Without the D drive plugged in, Windows goes in to a recovery/drive missing loop, and doesnt allow me to proceed in to a "fix" without a Windows USB boot. At the time of writing this, i'm downloading the Windows 10 ISO to a USB since my dedicated one is not with me.
How the recovery partition was installed on a separate drive in the system is a mystery to me, that's never happened in the several years i've been building PCs with multiple drives installed at the initial Windows installation.
However, i now notice that there arent any other partitions on the C Drive other than the Primary Volume (Which has the OS), and an unallocated partition.
So, out of all 4 drives, 1 is empty, the C drive is my OS Drive, the D Drive has the recovery on it, and the G Drive is the SSD "Clone" of the C Drive, but doesnt get recognized in bios for boot purposes. I'll need to use a windows installer ISO to maybe fix this without needing to completely reinstall the OS since i'm not sure where the Key for it is at this moment (Could look back in some Emails).
Regardless of how i carry on with my windows installation (and later installation of my 10 programs), why wont my system recognize the SSD in Bios. makes no sense.
Specs are:
MSI B450I ITX board
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
8GB of Ram (2x4gb)
G: 180Gb Corsair SSD
C: 600Gb 2.5 HDD (only 33Gb used)
D: 500Gb (Recovery Partition, nothing stored on the primary partition)
Sorry for the god-awful wall of text to whoever chips in to help. it just kept adding whatever seemed relevant as i went along.