Windows 10 wont boot from m2 ssd

[biotech.rohit]

Hey all,
I recently got a XPS 8930. It came with Mechanical drive with windows 10 installed. I put in a new Samsung Evo 960 into the m2 slot. BIOS recognized it. I booted into the hard drive, used samsung magician to clone the drive into SSD. Now the OS keeps booting into the hard drive, and there is no option to select SSD in BIOS. I removed the hard drive sata cable. Now it boots from SSD. But I want to use the hard drive for storage. The Boot is UEFI.
Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

At the end of the cloning process, you need to:
Power off.
Disconnect the old drive.
Allow the system to try to boot up from the new drive by itself.
If it works, then you reconnect the old drive, and you can delete all partitions on it.

 

[biotech.rohit]

Thanks for the reply. I did boot into new drive and formatted the hard drive. Now it boots into recovery after restart. I have to go into boot options every time to select to boot from SSD. I can access both drives now. But everytime I restart I have to go through the long process. Any solution for this

At the end of the cloning process, you need to:
Power off.
Disconnect the old drive.
Allow the system to try to boot up from the new drive by itself.
If it works, then you reconnect the old drive, and you can delete all partitions on it.

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks for the reply. I did boot into new drive and formatted the hard drive. Now it boots into recovery after restart. I have to go into boot options every time to select to boot from SSD. I can access both drives now. But everytime I restart I have to go through the long process. Any solution for this

I'm thinking the original boot partition is still active on the old drive.
A simple "format" does not get rid of that.

Disk Management, and delete that partition.

 

[biotech.rohit]

I deleted the partition still boots into recovery. But there are other partitions on the drive. One called EFI system partition and recovery partition. I am not able to delete them.

Thanks for the reply. I did boot into new drive and formatted the hard drive. Now it boots into recovery after restart. I have to go into boot options every time to select to boot from SSD. I can access both drives now. But everytime I restart I have to go through the long process. Any solution for this

I'm thinking the original boot partition is still active on the old drive.
A simple "format" does not get rid of that.

Disk Management, and delete that partition.

 

[USAFRet]

I deleted the partition still boots into recovery. But there are other partitions on the drive. One called EFI system partition and recovery partition. I am not able to delete them.

Just to verify:

1. What happens if you physically disconnect the old drive?
It boots properly?

2. Please post a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[biotech.rohit]

When i remove drive it boots straight into ssd without problem. attaching the screenshot.
https://imgur.com/a/xqZoq

I deleted the partition still boots into recovery. But there are other partitions on the drive. One called EFI system partition and recovery partition. I am not able to delete them.

Just to verify:

1. What happens if you physically disconnect the old drive?
It boots properly?

2. Please post a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[USAFRet]

When i remove drive it boots straight into ssd without problem. attaching the screenshot.
https://imgur.com/a/xqZoq

Verify your boot order in the BIOS.
Make sure the old HDD is not in there anywhere.

You'll have to use the clean command in diskpart and wipe that entire Disk 0.

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-vista/cc766465(v=ws.10)

Be absolutely sure of which drive you are accessing with this.

 

[biotech.rohit]

works perfectly! Thanks for the help!

When i remove drive it boots straight into ssd without problem. attaching the screenshot.
https://imgur.com/a/xqZoq

Verify your boot order in the BIOS.
Make sure the old HDD is not in there anywhere.

You'll have to use the clean command in diskpart and wipe that entire Disk 0.

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-vista/cc766465(v=ws.10)

Be absolutely sure of which drive you are accessing with this.