windows booting from hdd and ssd not even showing on boot menu

[hesham2003]

hi so i found out a while ago that the boot times are slow and i have a m2 ssd so i went to boot menu and i saw that windows is booting from hdd and my ssd isnt even there , so i went to other articles with people with same problem and tried differnt soultion and didnt work for me,so iam reaching for u guys to help me with this problem

thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Temporarily disconnect the hard drive and the Windows boot manager should automatically switch to the NVMe SSD to boot from.

Notebooks that come with dual drive configurations have no operating system on the 2.5" drive and for whatever reason, the notebook will always boot from the 2.5" drive first and not the NVMe SSD.

[hesham2003]

ok i will try this one out in a few hours and i will hit u up if it worked thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

[hesham2003]

Sir i need urgent help i cant connect the ribben cable back the hds one if u can send me any link how to i would be gratful

[hesham2003]

my ribbon cable has two edges they are small i dont know how to connect it back help pls

[hesham2003]

i connected it but still cant find my ssd in os boot manager

[Paul_Tikkanen]

The SSD is not going to show up in the Windows boot manager.

When there is no 2.5" hard drive the notebook should have automatically booted up from the SSD.

You have to have a completely clean 2.5" drive with no Windows or boot files on that drive.

If that didn't work, unfortunately I don't have any other suggestions for you to try, because it should have worked.

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion Gaming 15 Laptop PC

The service manual has the instructions for removing and replacing the 2.5" drive.

Perhaps there is a way to remove the hard drive without removing that hard to attach cable, even though the manual indicates you need to remove the drive cable.

For example, what if you removed the 3 screws, lifted up the drive and removed the connector from the drive and not the motherboard?

I don't know if that is possible but if it is, then you don't need to struggle with that cable.

Anyway, I would try to get the SSD to work with no drive installed and then connect it back up after you have run the notebook on the SSD for a while.

[hesham2003]

i did what u have told me about disconnecting the hard drive when i did so my pc didnt want to boot altough the windows is on the ssd c" drive, btw the ssd works jsut fine i have my apps on it i just dont get why the bios only reading the hdd when the windows is on the ssd,if i formated the ssd and put a new installation of windows would it work yes or no ?

[hesham2003]

is there a way to move any boot partitions from hdd to the ssd ?