Unable to Boot Directly from SSD on HP 14-R052br (Windows 10 on Caddy Adapter)

[JRicardo1509]

Hi everyone,

I recently found an old HP 14-R052br notebook at home, running Windows 8.1, and decided to upgrade it by adding an SSD through a caddy adapter. The SSD contains a working Windows 10 environment (I've tested it on another device, and it works fine).

After some issues with legacy/secure boot settings, I finally got the SSD to show up in the BIOS as it was showing on Windows explorer.

However, I'm currently facing a boot issue: I can only boot into Windows 10 from the SSD by pressing F9 during startup and manually selecting the SanDisk drive. I can't seem to set the SSD as the default boot option in the BIOS, so it doesn't boot directly.

 Boot order that I'm trying to use.

Selecting Sandisk SSD on F9 menu works fine and boots W10

Does anyone know how I can fix this and make the SSD boot automatically?
Thanks in advance for your help!

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@JRicardo1509

If you install the Sandisk in the hard drive socket and move the hard drive to the caddy, The Sandisk may stat automatically.

Many folks install a storage drive in a caddy to use it as an extra space, not as a boot disk, since the optical drive socket is slower than hard drive socket.

Your Sandisk SSD runs a lot faster than the hard drive, and the optical SATA socket is SATA 2, while the hard drive socket is SATA3 which runs twice faster than SATA2.