I recently bought a 1TB Kingston SSD to replace my 500GB Crucial drive as the main boot drive. After installing Windows on the SSD, my PC continuously booted into the BIOS, and I discovered that the BIOS wasn't recognizing the new drive. However, it was detected in Command Prompt and the Windows installer. I switched back to my old drive, which booted up just fine, and then added the 1TB SSD as extra storage without any issues. But when I try to use just the new SSD as the sole boot drive, my system fails to boot because it can't find the drive. Does anyone have any insights into what might be causing this issue?
2 Answers
Have you checked whether your new SSD is partitioned as MBR or GPT? It can mess things up if they are different types. If your old drive is MBR and the new one is GPT, that could be why your PC isn't recognizing it during boot.
It sounds like a classic case of UEFI vs. Legacy boot mode. If one drive is set for UEFI and the other for Legacy, the BIOS might be confused. You could try changing the boot mode in the BIOS settings. Here's a link that explains how to check and convert disk formats if needed: https://www.howtogeek.com/245610/how-to-check-if-a-disk-uses-gpt-or-mbr-and-how-to-convert-between-the-two/
Yeah, it's set to MBR. I didn’t think that would cause an issue though.