Your hard disk drive is used for booting, while your solid-state drive shows Windows interface.
Your hard disk drive is used for booting, while your solid-state drive shows Windows interface.
I purchased a ready-made system and have been gradually upgrading. Recently, I realized my HDD is set as the boot drive while my SSD appears in Windows settings. I assumed the boot drive held the operating system but am puzzled. I own a 240GB SSD and a 250GB HDD.
Both systems run an operating system. To make the SSD the startup device, you must adjust the boot priority sequence within the motherboard's BIOS settings. This instruction directs the board which drive to load when the computer powers on. If the PC was originally built with the OS on the HDD, they'll probably keep it set to start from that drive by default.
Additionally, during yesterday's drive swap and when I unplugged the HDD, it reported no boot drive. With only the HDD connected, Windows started and claimed my SSD was missing, yet it still launched from the HDD. I’m confused about why Windows appears to be using the SSD in File Explorer even though it doesn’t seem present.