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1 minute ago, Harflite said:

It just keeps booting on my hard drive tho

just disconnect every other drive from that pc while installing windows installer is dumb and install bootloader into other drives rather than the one that you said to install

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I have used a usb drive with the installer to get my SSD ready. However, when I boot into bios my SSD is listed under drives but not boot order. How can I get my SSD to appear in boot order?

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6 minutes ago, Harflite said:

I have used a usb drive with the installer to get my SSD ready. However, when I boot into bios my SSD is listed under drives but not boot order. How can I get my SSD to appear in boot order?

do you installed windows into the ssd 

 

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1 minute ago, Gokul_P said:

do you installed windows into the ssd 

 

Yup 

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3 minutes ago, Harflite said:

Yup 

install completed and you dont have any data on that drive. The easiest thing is reisnstall windows again for this time you are only plugging in the drive that you want windows to be installed all other drives are disconnected from the device 

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1 minute ago, Harflite said:

Yup 

Do you have multiple drives installed?

If so only have your ssd connected during windows install. This is because windows installer may put the bootloader onto a different drive rather than one you selected

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2 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

install completed and you dont have any data on that drive. The easiest thing is reisnstall windows again

It just keeps booting on my hard drive tho

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1 minute ago, Harflite said:

It just keeps booting on my hard drive tho

just disconnect every other drive from that pc while installing windows installer is dumb and install bootloader into other drives rather than the one that you said to install

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5 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

just disconnect every other drive from that pc while installing windows installer is dumb and install bootloader into other drives rather than the one that you said to install

I do this every time to ensure I don't lose my data on those drives. Best way to go about with this. 

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1 minute ago, C2dan88 said:

 

Do you have multiple drives installed?

If so only have your ssd connected during windows install. This is because windows installer may put the bootloader onto a different drive rather than one you selected

I did it 😕

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1 minute ago, CommanderAlex said:

I do this every time to ensure I don't lose my data on those drives. Best way to go about with this. 

How do I install bootloader?

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2 minutes ago, Harflite said:

How do I install bootloader?

Wait I think Ik what u mean one sec 

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3 minutes ago, Harflite said:

How do I install bootloader?

Do you have the USB thumb drive or installation media installed in the PC? If so, go to BIOS and set the boot priority to that installation media first. This will override Windows Boot Manager from trying to start up the computer.

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2 minutes ago, Harflite said:

Wait I think Ik what u mean one sec 

Fk

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3 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

Do you have the USB thumb drive or installation media installed in the PC? If so, go to BIOS and set the boot priority to that installation media first. This will override Windows Boot Manager from trying to start up the computer.

Yuh I did it but it won't install now

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Yuh I did it but it won't install now

That Drive 0 with ~238GB is the SSD, right? Click the format button on it and it will erase all data on the drive and will let you install Windows. 

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13 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

That Drive 0 with ~238GB is the SSD, right? Click the format button on it and it will erase all data on the drive and will let you install Windows. 

Uhm it now is only one partition and lets me install windows will this be alright?

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1 minute ago, Harflite said:

Uhm it now is only one partition and lets me install windows will this be alright?

Yes

The installer will partition everything by itself

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2 minutes ago, Harflite said:

Uhm it now is only one partition and lets me install windows will this be alright?

Yes, you'll be able to install Windows then. 

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Thank them not me

just passing by don't wanna keep you waiting

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5 minutes ago, Harflite said:

Yaay thnk q for your help16743984981654109910796694619324.thumb.jpg.9983ffa9ac072b5a045af68f0dd041d6.jpg

Now you can plug back all other drives and Remove the USB aand start using that computer

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24 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

Now you can plug back all other drives and Remove the USB aand start using that computer

Yups working all good now cheers

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1 hour ago, Harflite said:

It just keeps booting on my hard drive tho

You can sometimes switch between two harddrives if it has windows installed, but its better to backup all the data on your HDD and then format it, then transfer everything back. Then use your SSD as the boot drive and add the HDD as storage in Disk Management.

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