Help With Boot Device Swap

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Hi, im new here, so tell me if this goes in a different spot. I recently had my motherboard conk out when cleaning the graphics card. (I took it out, and must of shorted it when putting it back in) Anyways, i took all the drives and stuck them in an old pc to use when I'm waiting for a new motherboard, and can't boot from the old ssd. I know it's good, everything is there in file explorer, but its just so slow. Why will the pc not boot from the ssd? IDK if its motherboard incompatibility( its a foxconn dg33m03 with a core 2 quad and hd3650), but i need that ssd to work or i'll go crazy. I'ts a 128 gig Samgsung 470

[XAIXER]

Change boot order in the BIOS.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

I have. The order is ssd, old boot, storage, storage. The bios also shows no boot devices installed whet i spesifically choose the ssd, but shows all 4 hard disks

[C2dan88]

If Win10 was installed on UEFI system with GPT partition then that wont boot on your old hardware.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

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[Helpful Tech Witch]

Can you explain more?

[C2dan88]

There are two types of BIOS this explained them

https://www.howtogeek.com/56958/htg-explains-how-uefi-will-replace-the-bios/

 

Did the motherboard you took the ssd from have UEFI bios? If so,  when win10 was installed on to the ssd it would of formatted the drive with GPT partitons and installed an EFI boot loader for booting WIn10.

 

Your dg33m03 motherboard uses (non-uefi) BIOS. It wont recognise the Win10 EFI boot loader/GPT partition table to boot Win10. It only recognised MBR partitions.

 

This may be the reason when selecting ssd as first boot device it is not booting win10.

 

You can try convert your ssd to mbr, but this may result data loss!

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85757-convert-gpt-disk-mbr-disk-windows-10-a.html

 

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

aw shit. yeah it is. would the uefi work  with mbr?

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

nm i googled it.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

i downloaded the tool, and only a storage hhd is read as gtp, the ssd is marked mbr\and now the ssd in gpt