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April 23rd, 2020 10:00
X51 R2, SSD, cannot add it to the boot order?
Hey, 1st time posting here, 1st time really posting on any advice forum as I am usual rather confident with all things computers, but this time I have become completely stumped for 3 days. I have an old X51 R2, i5 3.4ghz, 16GB ram, GTX 745. I recently decided to breath some new life into this rig as I enjoy doing some 3D rendering as a hobby and my ambitions are starting to out do the capability of this computer. Ram went fine, nothing wrong there. I have a GTX 970 ready to go when I have got the HDD sorted.
BUT THE HDD IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!
I ordered a 500GB SSD, more specifically a Crucial MX500 2.5, MDL: CT500MX500SSD1. With the hopes of just removing the old 3.5 HDD for this one. I cloned the HDD to the SSD, all partition correctly, no problems there. I remove the HDD, put my SSD in, start it up, I go to Bios, the SSD is registered in the SATA2 port, so my pc recognizes its there, but I am given no option to add it to the boot order. I have turned off secure boot, I have played with every setting and tried everything I can think of, cloned it and re cloned it, installed windows from scratch onto the SSD, and its still not found it in the boot menu. Legacy boot recognizes it, but then can't boot from it. It wont even boot as an external drive.
Please help me before I pull my hair out!
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redxps630
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April 23rd, 2020 16:00
installed windows from scratch onto the SSD, and its still not found it in the boot menu
was the above done in legacy mode of bios? did you try clean install of OS on ssd in UEFI mode when all hdds are disconnected?
copied from a senior Dell member:
"With Legacy BIOS booting, you always to choose to boot from a device, like a hard drive. With UEFI boot, that only applies to things like network adapters and optical drives. When booting from an internal storage device like a hard drive, you don't just choose the device. Instead, a UEFI boot option for an internal storage device is actually a path to a specific bootloader FILE on a specific partition of a specific disk. These have to be registered into the UEFI firmware, which is typically handled during OS installation. Windows Setup does this automatically as part of its installation routine, for example, and after you install Windows, you'll see an item in your UEFI boot options called "Windows Boot Manager"."
perhaps this explains cloning hdd to ssd may cause boot problem.
r72019
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April 23rd, 2020 17:00
Can you boot from it using the F12 one-time boot menu?
r72019
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April 23rd, 2020 17:00
I mentioned this because, if you can, you should be able to manually add it as a permanent boot option.
Snoopception
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April 24th, 2020 02:00
When i go through f12 Boot, the drive appears under legacy, but then it still cant boot from it. I am going to try a fresh install after removing all the partitions again.
r72019
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April 24th, 2020 06:00
What happens when you try to boot from it?