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July 18th, 2019 08:00
Problem booting from SSD latitude 5480
Hi, i bought a Toshiba RC100 nvme ssd 240gb to install in my wwan slot, it fit's perfectly, installed a fresh windows 10 image with secure boot on and uefi mode with the sata mode in AHCI, changed my bios settings to boot firstly from the sdd and then the hdd . And now the problems, sometimes while booting it skips the ssd and goes to the hdd and windows can't see the ssd, when this happens i go to system information in bios and the ssd is not even detected, other times it boots from the ssd but it does't see the hdd. Completly random. If i press f12 and select the ssd (wich appears first in the list) the system boots from the ssd but sometimes it doesn't see the hdd and other times it does.
I noticed that if i deactivate the hdd in the boot menu, but not the DRIVES menu, from the bios the notebook will correctly start from the ssd but it wont see the hdd, other times it would.
A thing i noticed is that in my bios there is no WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER option in the boot order menu.
What should i do? Format both drives and have only one windows instalation? Furthermore, when i installed windows in the ssd i had to deactivate the hdd from the drives menu because it was in the sata 0 port and windows wouldn't install in the sata 1 port where the ssd is installed.
Sorry the lengthy post but i wanted to give as much info as i could. Thank you.
fireberd
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July 18th, 2019 11:00
I have the Windows boot manager option and what my BIOS uses.
When I installed the second Windows, I had the M.2 SSD still installed. I installed the 2nd Win 10 and, apparently, it recognized the other Win 10 and set up the dual boot with the Windows boot manager controlling it. If you installed Win 10 on the second drive without the original still connected that may be the problem. Perhaps running "Easy BCD" app will get it straightened out.
Download the free version HERE
U2CAMEB4ME
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July 18th, 2019 08:00
Welcome to the Dell Community @marcoccio
Have you formatted the HDD???
Best regards,
U2
marcoccio
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July 18th, 2019 08:00
No i haven't, it has a partition with windows and another with my data. I wanted to have it's instalation of windows as a backup just in case something happens to the ssd but if it conflicts i have no problem deleting it.
U2CAMEB4ME
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July 18th, 2019 10:00
@marcoccio
While doing some research I found this.
I have two Win 10's installed on a Dell Laptop, on separate SSD's. The Dell OEM is on an M2 SSD and is as it was shipped, no changes. I have a second (dual boot) installation on a separate SSD that is ONLY used for my recording studio and other than the initial install with Windows supplied drivers (and apparent legal activation), it will only be used off line with the wireless NIC disabled.
It is posted on the "Windows 10 Forum" by "fireberd"
https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/77279-install-win-10-two-hard-disks-same-computer.html
Who is also a member here on the "Dell Community Forum"
I will PM him and see if he can give us some insight.
Regards,
U2
marcoccio
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July 18th, 2019 10:00
Sorry @U2CAMEB4ME for the double answer, i think i miss understood the question, yes, i had previusly formated the hdd months ago because of a corrupted windows update that broke the original windows install, so the hdd no longer has the oem partitions, only ones that are created during a fresh windows install plus my data partition.
U2CAMEB4ME
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July 18th, 2019 12:00
Thank you for replying @fireberd
Regards,
U2
marcoccio
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July 18th, 2019 17:00
Thanks @U2CAMEB4ME and @fireberd for your time, i will try the EasyBCD option and report back. It's strange that you could install windows with the other drive attached and mine gave me and error code 0x80300024. Also i will try to add windows boot manager back to the boot options menu and see if that helps.
Thanks again
marcoccio
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July 19th, 2019 12:00
Hi @U2CAMEB4ME @fireberd I tried EasyBSD and it worked! It allowed me to select as first boot device the ssd and also to boot from the hdd when i desired to. Howerver it still sometimes failled to boot from the ssd, the solucion was to clean the m.2 connector with a toothbrush and an electronic's contact cleaner spray. It seems that dust and **bleep** was inside the connector even though i take good care my laptop.
Once again thank you @U2CAMEB4ME and @fireberd for your help!
U2CAMEB4ME
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July 19th, 2019 12:00
Your very welcome @marcoccio
Just glad I found @fireberd on the other forum and he was able to help.
Regards and best of luck,
U2