Windows\ Boot Drive help

[Snapple415]

Hello,

 

I used to have an alienware x51 and i upgraded to an ssd drive, I ended up migrating my old harddrive into the SSD and then swapped the sata ports on the motherboard so that it would prioritize my new SSD. I then reformatted my old hardddrive and just uses it as extra storage, everything worked fine

 

I recently built a new pc and swapped the harddrives from the old alienware into the new pc set up, if I have nothing but the SSD plugged in the computer will boot up perfectly and I have no issues, but as soon as i introduce the extra HDD the computer will no longer boot, I set the boot order to prioritize the SSD and even when i try to force boot using the SSD from my bios it will not work.

 

I have the z390 aorus master motherboard.

 

https://imgur.com/a/pGSURV1 This is an image of the SSD in my disk management

 

Any ideas? the SSD is plugged into port 0 and the HDD into port 3

 

Thank you

[Slottr]

You totally wiped the hard drive? Or just deleted everything off it?

 

Something that could solve your problems, which I would recommend you doing anyways because of the new motherboard, is reinstall windows.

[Snapple415]

the HDD was totally wiped, when I try to start the computer it goes into windows recovery mode but can't go any further since it can't find any of the file it's looking for. 

I did a reinstall of windows on the SDD (with the option to keep my apps and files) but no give. should i do a full wipe?

[Slottr]

15 minutes ago, Snapple415 said:

the HDD was totally wiped, when I try to start the computer it goes into windows recovery mode but can't go any further since it can't find any of the file it's looking for. 

I did a reinstall of windows on the SDD (with the option to keep my apps and files) but no give. should i do a full wipe?

Yeah, a full reinstallation from a bootable usb.

 

UEFI or Legacy?

[Snapple415]

UEFI, I've tried removing secure boot but then it just didnt recognize the SSD as a boot option anymore

[Snapple415]

Fresh install of windows did not solve the problem. Could the harddrive be hardcoded with some sort of software from Alienware?