New SSD recognized in windows, but not in UEFI/BIOS

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Fellwarre

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Okay, so I have a weird problem, and I know a couple of you think I have this backwards. I have an ACER Aspire E5-571, and I just added an SSD to its previously empty optical slot.

The cloning worked fine, and the SSD shows up as my G drive right now.

However, whenever I get into the UEFI (which is a massive pain in the butt because I can't just hit a keyboard button boot to do it) I only see the one hard drive, I don't see the new SSD, so I can't change the boot order.

I'm probably missing something small and dumb, because I'm not as savvy as I want to be. Please help? Thanks in advance!
 
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It is conceivable that the laptop's BIOS/UEFI will not permit a boot from an otherwise bootable drive while connected in the laptop's optical drive bay. We have come across a number of laptop/notebooks that contain this restriction.

The only definitive way to determine if this is the case is to internally-connect the Samsung SSD in lieu of the present boot drive and see the results. However, you may wish to contact Acer tech support first to determine if this is a potential problem since other issues may be at play here other than what I've indicated.
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What did you actually clone? Did you clone the whole drive? or just the main partition?

You need to ensure you clone the entire drive, including the boot manager partition.

I would actually suggest you clean install your OS on the SSD, opposed to cloning. It's just a smoother process with nothing left over from an older HDD install.
 
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Fellwarre

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I cloned the whole drive using Samsung's cloning software, which is meant for swapping SSD drives to be the new Bootable drive. My concern is, even if I do a fresh install, will the new drive show up in the UEFI?
 
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I've used Samsung's cloning software, and it's still possible to clone only single partitions - forgetting the boot manager.

Perhaps I misunderstood, the drive isn't showing up in the BIOS at all? Or is simply not present in the boot priority options?
 
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It is conceivable that the laptop's BIOS/UEFI will not permit a boot from an otherwise bootable drive while connected in the laptop's optical drive bay. We have come across a number of laptop/notebooks that contain this restriction.

The only definitive way to determine if this is the case is to internally-connect the Samsung SSD in lieu of the present boot drive and see the results. However, you may wish to contact Acer tech support first to determine if this is a potential problem since other issues may be at play here other than what I've indicated.
 
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