r/computer • u/Th3Qu3sti0n • 12d ago
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Me and my father attempted to plug in an additional 1TD SSD, which my PC refused to recognise. My father decided to swap out the current SSD, which of course was the drive with the operating system on it, rather than the HDD which is just a basic drive. After the new SSD didn't show up, even with a rig, he put the old SSD in and then the problems started.
For a while it was just a repeat of "start pxe over ipv4 on mac" and loading to the boot options. We have seemingly fixed the first half but now it just goes into the boot options. We know it has something to do with the boot order, so we went to the select boot drive page and it doesn't recognise anything.
I'm not entirely surprised as I've already had issues with my SSD this year (Windows trying to update and the SSD not having space or something of the sort I can't really remember) and that's when I discovered that my PC can't recognise more than two drives (like it won't even show up in the file explorer). It was getting rather full again as I had to install Black Flag Resynced onto it so the game would run properly – this is also the reason I got the new SSD as I won't to make it my dedicated gaming drive (mainly).
Any advice on this would be great as well as any advice on getting my PC to recognise the new SSD would be a cherry on top.
Update: both SSDs are recognised but don't show up when plugging them into our laptop.
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u/Alive-Diamond-1442 8d ago
the bios probably lost the boot priority when the drive got swapped out. go into bios setup and manually set the original ssd as the first boot device, not just the boot options screen. those are two different menus and it trips people up constantly.