Problem installing an SSD on my HP Zbook Studio 360 G5.

[AngelFábregas]

Hello everyone,
Forgive my English but I use Google Translate, until now I consulted or helped in the community in Spanish but they have closed it to us and we will have to bother here. 😉

I'm having a problem installing an SSD on my HP Zbook Studio 360 G5.

First I explain to you that it was a laptop purchase without an OS. and I installed a Windows 11 that I no longer used on another computer and it worked fine but it came with a 512GB SSD and it immediately fell short so I placed another 1TB one in the second slot and it also worked well for a couple of years.

But a few weeks ago, while installing a DVD and Bluray disc editing program, since I did not have any recorder connected, it gave me an error, not allowing me to install two recording drivers. Thinking I needed to solve it, I searched for tricks on the internet and found one that asked to modify a Windows registry key. I did it and it didn't start. But I managed to boot in error proof and I left the registry as it was but it didn't matter, it didn't start normally.

Try all recovery media, from boot repair to already directly with diskpart from cmd, modifying fast boot, secure boot, everything. All without success and I was forced to reinstall the operating system, but I did it on the 1TB disk with the intention of buying another 2TB one and replacing the original 521GB one.

So I was already reinstalling the programs while the 2TB disk arrived and since it was working fine I left the 512GB disk empty or so I thought because there were UEFI files that it wouldn't let me delete, so I went into the disk manager and saw that there were the three system partitions so I tried to delete them with Minitool Partition Wizard but I didn't succeed and finally I tried with the disk manager itself and it said to do it.

Today the 2TB disk arrived, so I opened the computer and replaced the old original 512GB one with the new 2TB one, but now it doesn't boot, even worse than when it didn't boot the other times because it complains that there is no boot system and it offers me just to exit or by typing the 4 numbers it shows to reinstall the system, but I have tried it and then it complains that there is no network card.

I have tried changing the order of the disks in the slots and nothing remains the same, I have tried leaving it as it was and it hardly starts and checking in UEFI it finds the two disks, both replacing the old and the new one, but it does not boot with them.
I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but on the original 512MB SSD there was a "replace with HP spare" label initially covered with a black tape that acts as insulation.

How could I recover the boot without losing anything? or bad things like being able to boot with the disk I want, because with other computers and hard drives I never had problems, but with this BIOS plus UEFI thing and so many security features it is torture that in the end does not prevent the world from collapsing for a while. update failure in a legal product as happened today with Kasperspy.

Any help will be appreciated.

Greetings

Angel