Problem with the new SSD not appearing in the boot menu.
Problem with the new SSD not appearing in the boot menu.
I have two drives installed on my system—one SSD and one HDD. Windows runs on the SSD while games and other apps are on the HDD. I replaced the old drive with a new Samsung SSD using the Migration Tool, and everything worked fine. After removing the old drive and installing the new one, it doesn’t appear in the Boot Manager at startup. On startup, I have to press F11 to open the menu, but sometimes it doesn’t show up immediately and I’m forced to restart. I’ve adjusted the boot order in UEFI, yet it still only shows the HDD. I’m not comfortable changing BIOS settings, though the order seems correct there. Any advice would be appreciated.
Consider removing the file and generating a fresh EFI boot partition for your SSD, connecting just that drive.
I encountered some variations in the commands, which made it interesting to try figuring them out. Eventually, reaching the 'create partition efi' section revealed that MSR and EFI partitions are restricted to GPT disks. This should have been a more straightforward process.
It appears your storage setup uses an MBR format instead of GPT. You'll need to change it before proceeding.
Lord, the issue started when I switched the drive to GPT using a Windows boot USB. When I tried Disk Management, the disk didn’t initialize properly—especially after it was erased earlier. Now I can initialize it as a GPT volume and format a basic partition, but during Samsung Data Migration it goes offline again, forcing me to start fresh. I’ve rearranged the SSD positions in case of a cable problem, yet the problem persists. It feels like Windows is much harder to manage now than when it first launched.