SSD Boot order

[✪Rich&Nuts]

So a few months ago I have built a new PC with a SSD and a HDD, and I used the Data Migration tool from Samsung to clone the OS. I recently realized that my boot speed has not improved and I have found out that I might have messed up somewhere. I went into my MSI bios and saw that my regular HDD was the first in line to boot then my SDD. When I changed the boot order to my SSD to be first I saw some kind of error and it restarted and booted up to windows showing the games that I installed.

Currently my HDD is my local disk C drive and my SSD is my local disk D drive.

In my BIOS settings for MSI I am using UEFI instead of the CSM settings I do not know if that matters or not.

[tacoshy]

well set in bios the boot order to boot from SSD - disconenct the HDD best and format it if you can to get the OS of the HDD. Also install Samsung Magician and get the drievrs for the SSD.

If you have a NVMe Samsung SSD make sure to set the BIOS to UEFI isntead fo legacy mode so that the partition style will be GPT instead of MBR.

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Originally posted by tacoshy:

well set in bios the boot order to boot from SSD - disconenct the HDD best and format it if you can to get the OS of the HDD. Also install Samsung Magician and get the drievrs for the SSD.

If you have a NVMe Samsung SSD make sure to set the BIOS to UEFI isntead fo legacy mode so that the partition style will be GPT instead of MBR.

I already cloned the OS from the HDD in the beginning when I built the PC. When I changed the boot order to SSD first I lost a lot of programs that I used and saw only the games that I have installed on the SSD.

Edit: I got installed the drivers for the SSD already

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Uh and what is weird is in the MSI bios I do not see the SSD in the boot priority list.

[tacoshy]

Originally posted by ✪Rich&Nuts:

Uh and what is weird is in the MSI bios I do not see the SSD in the boot priority list.

to yous ee the SSD at all in BIOS?

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Originally posted by tacoshy:

Originally posted by ✪Rich&Nuts:

Uh and what is weird is in the MSI bios I do not see the SSD in the boot priority list.

to yous ee the SSD at all in BIOS?

So I see the SSD and the HDD in the "UEFI Hard Disk BBS Priority" and that is where I change the Boot option. That is where I change the priority of the two, but on the Boot priority list I only one drive pops up.

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Anyone got an idea why I do not see the two drives in the boot priority list?

[Magma Dragoon]

Is it an M.2 SATA drive in a slot in NVMe mode?

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Originally posted by Magma Dragoon:

Is it an M.2 SATA drive in a slot in NVMe mode?

It is a 2.5" Samsung 860 SSD

[_I_]

unplug the hdd and make sure you can boot from the ssd and it has all of your important files/info before partitioning and formatting the hdd

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Originally posted by _I_:

unplug the hdd and make sure you can boot from the ssd and it has all of your important files/info before partitioning and formatting the hdd

I was able to switch the boot up process to the SSD when I made it first in priority by using the"UEFI Hard Disk BBS Priority" settings. Is there a way to transfer the files instead of reformatting? I do not think all my important files can fit in the SSD, it is 250gb I only want to use it to restart faster and for games to load quicker.

My question is why is only 1 drive showing on the Boot Priority list?

[Snow]

Originally posted by ✪Rich&Nuts:

Originally posted by _I_:

unplug the hdd and make sure you can boot from the ssd and it has all of your important files/info before partitioning and formatting the hdd

I was able to switch the boot up process to the SSD when I made it first in priority by using the"UEFI Hard Disk BBS Priority" settings. Is there a way to transfer the files instead of reformatting? I do not think all my important files can fit in the SSD, it is 250gb I only want to use it to restart faster and for games to load quicker.

My question is why is only 1 drive showing on the Boot Priority list?

Windows 10 and UEFI, that's it. When you install Windows on a drive - it might show it as "Windows boot loader" instead of drive model, effectively hiding the drive from the list. Data migration might not work well in such cases, so I strongly recommend a clean install on SSD with HDD unplugged.
If you want to save your most important stuff - just copy the C:\Users\%username% contents to some folder, and then copy it back on a clean Windows. The folders inside, especially the AppData, contain all most important stuff like app passwords and settings. Some apps might still ask you to log in again, but once you do - all your stuff will be back. What comes to applications itself - just clean install everything after you've done restoring the stuff I just wrote about.

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Originally posted by Snow:

Originally posted by ✪Rich&Nuts:

I was able to switch the boot up process to the SSD when I made it first in priority by using the"UEFI Hard Disk BBS Priority" settings. Is there a way to transfer the files instead of reformatting? I do not think all my important files can fit in the SSD, it is 250gb I only want to use it to restart faster and for games to load quicker.

My question is why is only 1 drive showing on the Boot Priority list?

Windows 10 and UEFI, that's it. When you install Windows on a drive - it might show it as "Windows boot loader" instead of drive model, effectively hiding the drive from the list. Data migration might not work well in such cases, so I strongly recommend a clean install on SSD with HDD unplugged.
If you want to save your most important stuff - just copy the C:\Users\%username% contents to some folder, and then copy it back on a clean Windows. The folders inside, especially the AppData, contain all most important stuff like app passwords and settings. Some apps might still ask you to log in again, but once you do - all your stuff will be back. What comes to applications itself - just clean install everything after you've done restoring the stuff I just wrote about.

So you are saying I have to make the SSD disk drive C, but if I make that my main drive any programs that I download will be saved on the SSD and make it full quickly it is only 250 GB. I want my HDD to be my Main storage.

[✪Rich&Nuts]

Oh and I would also like to add I did a benchmark at userbenchmark.com and it said that my boot partition is still located on my mechanical hard drive. How would I change that?

[Nx Machina]

Post a reply to this and I will help you solve the problem.

[tacoshy]

Originally posted by ✪Rich&Nuts:

Oh and I would also like to add I did a benchmark at userbenchmark.com and it said that my boot partition is still located on my mechanical hard drive. How would I change that?

because it is correct - you still boot from your HDD - all the necessary anwsers have been given. YOu just have to do it now.

Originally posted by Kusa:

Post a reply to this and I will help you solve the problem.

we already did - OP just have to do what he has been told to do.