Boot Priority sequence missing in BIOS

[Abhi208]

I have recently installed M.2 NVMe 250 GB SSD in my laptop. Ii want to run my OS on it. I have already cloned my OS through a third party software. But during BIOS setting my laptop doesn't show any Boot priority for to which I am not able to set SSD as boot disk. BIOS only shows internal HDD to boot from. I have also disabled secure boot. Due to this I am not able to install OS and boot from my SSD. However if I disconnect my SATA HDD, the laptop is booting perfectly fine from SSD. PLEASE HELP

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Notebooks that come with dual drive configurations have no operating system on the 2.5" hard drive

The Windows boot manager controls what drive the PC boots from, so you cannot change the boot order.

The 2.5" drive is programmed to boot first. That's just the way it is.

Normally when you disconnect the 2.5" drive like you did and the boot manager switches to boot from the M.2 SSD, which it did, when you connect the 2.5" drive back up, it should have continued to boot from the SSD.

So, the only suggestion I can offer would be to format the 2.5" drive and just use it for storage.

[Abhi208]

Sir

Thanks a lot for reply.

So what I understand from your solution is that my SATA HDD is rendered ineffective inside my notebook and I can't use it ?. 

Or is there still any solution that I keep keep my HDD in my note6 for storage and use SSD for OS. 

Please help

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

What I wrote is that you can't have an operating system on the 2.5" hard drive.

You need to remove the drive, and completely format it to remove any trace of Windows and boot files, so the PC boots from the SSD when it can't boot from the 2.5" drive.

Then you use the 2.5"drive for storage.

That is how it is supposed to work.

You can see these related discussions which is pretty much the same issue you are having.

Solved: SSD M2 doesn't show up in the BIOS - HP Support Community - 8289436

Solved: I can't find my new ssd in boot option. - HP Support Community - 8253860

Solved: Can Pavilion 15-cs2073cl boot from M.2 SSD? - HP Support Community - 7181928

If that doesn't work in your particular situation, unfortunately I don't know why that would be.