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September 22nd, 2019 11:00
can not boot from the SSD m2
hi,
i have Inspiron 7559 which came with 1TB HDD, i have installed Crucial SSD M2 (Link for the SSD), and used the (Acronis True Image for Crucial) to clone the HDD to the SSD, i have follow the steps which shows in this video (Link to the video), the laptop restarted after the cloning is finished, but i have noticed that i am laptop is still booting from the HDD.
i tried to restart the windows and pressed F2, then i got the boot menu but i can not managed to re-order the boot options, another issue is when i press F2 i got the menu which shows the SSD and i can choose the SSD to boot from it by pressing Enter but this will boot the windows from the SSD only once after that it will return to the HDD.
see the image below
also when i restarted the windows and pressing F12, i got different settings different from the above mentioned one, and in these settings i found the SDD assigned as First HDD, see the below image
this is Security tab :
this is the Boot tab:
what i need is to use the SSD m2 as the system drive and boot from it , and use the HDD as storage drive .



U2CAMEB4ME
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September 22nd, 2019 12:00
Welcome to the Dell Community @MaGoOoDy
First thing to try is disconnect the HDD and try to boot from just the SSD.
Let us know how that goes.
Best regards,
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jphughan
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September 22nd, 2019 15:00
As suggested above, after cloning an OS disk it's generally a good idea to perform at least your first boot attempt with the source disk disconnected.
If you can boot from the new SSD using the F12 method but can't see it in the boot order, then the bootloader hasn't been registered into the firmware. UEFI systems do not work like Legacy BIOS systems where you choose to boot from a specific device. On a UEFI system, the boot options are paths to a specific bootloader file on a specific partition of a specific drive. These paths need to be registered into the firmware. When you install an OS the normal way, such as through Windows Setup, it handles that registration portion -- but cloning applications don't always do that, especially if the device was connected through a USB adapter/enclosure at the time the clone was performed, for example. Macrium Reflect is another popular cloning tool and its bootable Rescue Media has a "Fix Boot Problems" routine that is designed to fix this exact issue, among other problems, and Macrium offers a free version of Reflect that would do what you need. You could try performing the clone using that and then running that routine. I would recommend that you NOT have the source disk connected when you run Fix Boot Problems, fyi. If you want to keep using that disk later, add it back after you've gotten your system booting normally from the new SSD.
If you're curious, the way you can boot in UEFI mode from USB devices without going through this registration is because the UEFI spec defines \EFI\Boot\Bootx64.efi as a "default" bootloader file path. When you press F12 to access the one-time menu, the system scans the partitions of any attached devices looking for a bootloader file at that path, and if it finds one, then that partition is shown as a boot option in that one-time menu. But the only options shown in the "permanent" boot order list that you see when looking in the F2 BIOS Setup interface are paths that have been registered, and although Windows installations do have a Bootx64.efi file, the Windows Boot Manager environment actually uses a different path.
MaGoOoDy
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September 23rd, 2019 07:00
i cannot remove the hard disk, one of the screws that holding the brackets is stripped and i tried many times to remove .
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September 23rd, 2019 08:00
@MaGoOoDy then go into your BIOS Setup and see if you can disable the SATA port being used by that drive. Many Dell laptops offer that. And if you ever want to remove that drive, take your laptop to a hardware store and ask them to drill the screw out. They'll use something called a left-handed drill bit that's designed so that it moves forward when it's turning counterclockwise, opposite to normal drill bits. That means that once the drill bit enters the center portion of the screw, the drill bit's counterclockwise motion will rotate the screw counterclockwise and therefore remove it from the screw hole.