SSD is not detecting in BIOS

[Ayush4661]

I have installed WD blue M.2 SATA SSD in my laptop but it is not detecting in BIOS. I have removed my HDD first then installed M.2 SATA.

On the first boot I think CMOS checksum failed but I am not sure. Then now Hard Disk 3F0 error is coming. I want to install win in SSD and don't want to use HDD. So, what should I do to make SSD detectable.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Leave the hard drive disconnected and try installing W10 on the SSD.

On some notebooks, the M.2 SSD does not show up in the BIOS.

If W10 finds the SSD and installs, then you should be able to boot from it.

You cannot have Windows on the 2.5" drive, or it will always want to boot from the SSD.

Don't remove Windows from the 2.5" drive until after you confirmed my suggestion worked.

[Ayush4661]

I have used a pendrive already having win 10 installed in it. The WD SSD is being displayed in drives under device manager but when I am trying to install window, it goes undetected in BIOS Boot Manager.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You should be able to install W10 if Windows sees the drive in the BIOS.

I don't understand what you mean about the drive going undetected in the BIOS boot manager.

As I wrote before, some notebooks do not display the M.2 SSD in the BIOS boot manager.

To install Windows from a USB flash drive, you press the ESC key to get the menu of options.  Then you select the F9 boot options menu and from that you select your USB flash drive and press the Enter key.

The PC should boot from the USB flash drive, and you should be able to install Windows.

The only other suggestion I can offer would be to use the HP cloud recovery tool which you can use to create a bootable USB recovery drive that will reinstall W10, the drivers and the software that originally came with your PC>

Here is an info link for how to use the utility.  You will need a 32 GB USB flash drive to create the recovery media with.

HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool in Windows 11 and 10 | HP® Customer Support