Solve : Laptop booting wrong drive, trying to reuse HDD from old lapto

1.	Solve : Laptop booting wrong drive, trying to reuse HDD from old laptop.?
Answer» So I recently bought a Dell G7 series laptop which has a preinstalled 256gb M2.0 SSD and also has an empty bay for a 2.5mm HDD drive. I took an old regular SATA drive out of my old laptop to use with my new one. When I boot up the laptop, it just boots into the old VERSION of windows from my old laptop (KEEPS booting the HDD instead of the M2 SSD). Ideally I'd like it to boot up the M2 so I can go in and format the HDD and use it as extra storage. The HDD keeps booting up instead of the M2 no matter which order I changed the boot sequence in BIOS. Also, the HDD and SDD are both set as C:\ drive I think which also may be a problem. TLDR: Laptop is booting salvaged HDD instead of preinstalled M2.0 SSD no matter the boot sequence in bios When you set boot order in the BIOS are you pressing F10 to "save changes and exit" ? ? Also there is no reason Win would recognise them both as C:///that happens when it boots to a HDD. Why not just wipe Win from the 2nd HDD...you don't need it. Quote from: patio on July 26, 2018, 11:46:50 AM Why not just wipe Win from the 2nd HDD...you don't need it. ...and you'd be in breach of the license, almost certainly.The firmware , aka BIOS, bots the first device with a valid boot loader. Likely the SSD does not have a valid boot loader. Try this: Disable the HDD and see if the SSD will boot.It wail not. What document(s) are you using as your guide? Google this: move Windows 10 to SSD You should find lots of stuff, - INCLUDING how to know if BIOS sees multiple boot devices. If it don't see it, it won't boo TIT. This video is about a Desktop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVfEBi6ThkU Maybe that might help. Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 27, 2018, 10:36:35 AM It wail not. Neither doth it protest. Quote If it don't see it, it won't boo tit. I had a dog like that once.

Solve : Laptop booting wrong drive, trying to reuse HDD from old laptop.?

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So I recently bought a Dell G7 series laptop which has a preinstalled 256gb M2.0 SSD and also has an empty bay for a 2.5mm HDD drive. I took an old regular SATA drive out of my old laptop to use with my new one. When I boot up the laptop, it just boots into the old VERSION of windows from my old laptop (KEEPS booting the HDD instead of the M2 SSD). Ideally I'd like it to boot up the M2 so I can go in and format the HDD and use it as extra storage. The HDD keeps booting up instead of the M2 no matter which order I changed the boot sequence in BIOS. Also, the HDD and SDD are both set as C:\ drive I think which also may be a problem.

TLDR: Laptop is booting salvaged HDD instead of preinstalled M2.0 SSD no matter the boot sequence in bios

When you set boot order in the BIOS are you pressing F10 to "save changes and exit" ? ?

Also there is no reason Win would recognise them both as C:///that happens when it boots to a HDD.

Why not just wipe Win from the 2nd HDD...you don't need it. Quote from: patio on July 26, 2018, 11:46:50 AM

Why not just wipe Win from the 2nd HDD...you don't need it.

...and you'd be in breach of the license, almost certainly.The firmware , aka BIOS, bots the first device with a valid boot loader.
Likely the SSD does not have a valid boot loader.
Try this:
Disable the HDD and see if the SSD will boot.It wail not.
What document(s) are you using as your guide?
Google this:
move Windows 10 to SSD
You should find lots of stuff,
- INCLUDING how to know if BIOS sees multiple boot devices.
If it don't see it, it won't boo TIT.
This video is about a Desktop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVfEBi6ThkU
Maybe that might help. Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 27, 2018, 10:36:35 AM

It wail not.

Neither doth it protest.

Quote

If it don't see it, it won't boo tit.

I had a dog like that once.

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