My SSD is set to top priority in UEFI but does not boot

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Aarron Dixon

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I didn't want to get an SSD, but a Silicon Power 480gb for $180 on Amazon left me no choice. I popped her in, reset the CMOS hoping to have the BIOS/UEFI see the new SSD right off the bat (although it was still blank and not formatted), and fired things up. I formatted the drive, cloned my HDD onto it, then set my boot priority to HDD and my HDD priority to the SSD.

The BIOS/UEFI see it, Windows 8 sees it, I can manipulate files on it through Windows 8. It's there, Windows knows it's there, and it works.

Windows 8 still boots from the HDD.

What can I do to convince it that SSDs are awesome and it should really try it out?
 
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Well I still want to use the HDD as storage, so disconnecting it might tell me more about the issue, but it's not a long term solution. My BIOS/UEFI doesn't offer the SSD as a standalone option in the boot order.

It does let me set the HDD boot priority though, and I set the SSD as top priority. It doesn't work, obviously, but as for WHY it doesn't work, or what else to try to get it to do so;is there a mode setting I can change? Can I just somehow delete or corrupt my Windows 8 files on the HDD so that it would default to the SSD perhaps?
 
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Agreed.
If the SSD is the only drive attached and boots fine it's a BIOS issue. If it doesn't boot then it may be the clone process wasn't quite correct making it not bootable.
 
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I tried disconnecting the HDD. It does not recognize the SDD as a valid boot device. I cloned it using AOMEI. All the standard files seem to work just fine. It could be the cloning... but is there something else I might be overlooking? A setting, perhaps, that needs to be flipped so I can boot from SSD?
 
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I did some more research, and realized I should be in AHCI mode. I switched to AHCI mode with the same results, it did not recognise the SSD as a valid boot device. Could there be other settings I'm overlooking?

 
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I was doing some research on clones that won't boot, and it seems that a recovery USB can possibly fix the issue. However, when I try to make one, it just tells me that some required files are missing. Is there somewhere I can download the required files?
 
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I finally got it to install Windows. Just open a command prompt, run "diskpart", and "select disk <X>". Make SURE this is the right disk, and there is NO important data on it. " clean ". This wipes the drive completely. You can then install Windows. I don't think the issue was my clone, but formatting. The clone would have likely worked if I had started this way.

Edit: I have decided to reformat and reclone while I sleep. I'll update tomorrow on the success of the operation.

Edit: Couldn't sleep. The clone finished. I switched priority back to the SSD. Ran as smooth as the event horizon of a black hole. Everything is exactly the same, except for load times suddenly being nearly instant. Feels good. Worth every effort.
 
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Hi Aarron Dixon,
I'm facing the same issue and trying to follow your solution.
So just to make sure, your suggestion is to format ("clean") the SSD drive (not the HDD) and then to clone the system on it?
Could it also be done by "format"ing the SSD drive from the Disk Management?
Thanks in advance.
 
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