Noob SSD Questions

chris_r

chris_r

chris_r

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Windows 10 Home, Asus i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80ghz 2.4GHZ - 8GB Ram Laptop.

I have a 1TB HDD in my laptop
I have then inserted a KINGSTON A400 2.5" Internal SSD - 120 GB

My goal is to make boot time faster and to have all programs/OS installed on the SSD (to make everything quicker)

Anyway, as it stands here is how my computer looks and drive devices look (see images below) - i have no idea what the T Drive is all about.

How can i throw everything that is currently on my system onto the SSD and make it so my laptop boots into/from the SSD as at the moment in the start up i have to click ESCAPE, then click the SSD and boot up that way otherwise it goes into start up repair.

thanks, so much!


 
Can you not change your BIOS boot order so that the SSD is first? Once you've copied everything over from the HDD to the SSD you could either format the HDD so that it isn't seen as a bootable drive by Windows and use it as a storage drive or remove it from the laptop?
 
MarcLister said:
Can you not change your BIOS boot order so that the SSD is first? Once you've copied everything over from the HDD to the SSD you could either format the HDD so that it isn't seen as a bootable drive by Windows and use it as a storage drive or remove it from the laptop?
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Done exactly that my mate, now my problem is the bios will not save any settings, if it did, it would be working as normal.

It just reverts back on every re-start, any ideas?
 
chris_r said:
Asus TPL550

No idea if latest nor how to update (never done it) though

BIOS: TP550LA.210 27/04/2014
SMBIOS: 2.7

Thanks
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There's a newer BIOS but it doesn't appear to have any major update. When you make a BIOS change, how are you saving the changes? Could you try taking the HDD out and see how the laptop boots with just the SSD?
 
Clone the hard drive to the ssd
If there's not too much dat
I assume you installed windows on the ssd while the hard drive was connected?
If so your boot record is looking for 2 drives~boot record may even be on the hard drive
T is probably the recovery partition
Though it doesn't normally get assigned a drive letter
Easy enough to hide it in disk management though that won't fix your issue anyway
 
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