My DV6-7250CA will not boot from 1Tb USB SSD. It boots fine from a 8Gb USB Stick.

[ctwinter2]

My DV6-7250CA will not boot from 1Tb USB SSD. It boots fine from a 8Gb USB Stick. I cannot get the boot priority to show the USB hard drive as an option.

[WAWood]

@ctwinter2 

Since this model did not come with an SSD (as far as I know), then this must be new -- so we need to know what you did to prepare the SSD for use with this laptop -- which might tell us why it is not booting from it.

[ctwinter2]

I purchased the SSD just recently and formatted it with my Windows 10 operating system, just the same as the 8Gb stick that works fine. I think part of the problem is that the boot bios does not have the usb/hd as a boot option, even though it is first on the boot order list. 

[WAWood]

@ctwinter2 

Apparently, I did not ask my question properly -- so I will try again.

You said you "formatted" the drive -- which only puts partitions on it, not an OS.

So, did you INSTALL Win10 to the SSD, or did you just format the drive and copy stuff to it?

[ctwinter2]

OK...I thought that when I formatted a drive it also put the OS on it. How do I prepare the USB/SSD to be able to boot from it?