I'm sure this is something "easy" but I just can't seem to crack the code and figure it out.
Config: Win 10 Asus G75 1J Laptop with 1 TB HDD and 500 GB SSD. The 1 TB HDD that came with the laptop had a functioning version of Win 10 installed on it, but was never used. It just say there for the past year.
Because... I installed a 500GB SSD and installed Win 10 on that drive and have been using it for the past year with no issues.
Now today... I want to make a dual boot system for Win 10 on both the SSD and HDD.
So... I reinstall/refresh the Win 10 OS on the SSD and all is nominal -- works fine as expected.
I also wanted to refresh the Win10 HDD (that had a bunch of bloatware), and it "appears" to reinstall just fine (finishes with no errors, etc...) THEN...
I go into the bios, and I'm able to select the 1TB drive as the boot disk. Then I restart and I get an error that says "disk does not contain bootable media, etc.."
At this point, I thought installing Easy BCD would help me fix the issue so I booted back into the Win 10 SSD and installed Easy BCD. At this point, I made both the SSD and HDD "boot options" (in Easy BCD).
And... then I go back into the Bios and it shows the 1TB disk (and the 500GB SSD) as physically there... AND I can see the BOTH disks from Disk Management in the OS of the 500GB SSD, YET... I can't select the 1TB drive as a "boot option" in the bios. Huh???
What in the world is going on??? Please help!
As an aside just thinking out load... Maybe I wiped out the UEFI along the way? I can get into the bios, but I'm not sure how to access the UEFI graphical type interface that I've seen on the Asus MoBo that runs my desktop rig.
Config: Win 10 Asus G75 1J Laptop with 1 TB HDD and 500 GB SSD. The 1 TB HDD that came with the laptop had a functioning version of Win 10 installed on it, but was never used. It just say there for the past year.
Because... I installed a 500GB SSD and installed Win 10 on that drive and have been using it for the past year with no issues.
Now today... I want to make a dual boot system for Win 10 on both the SSD and HDD.
So... I reinstall/refresh the Win 10 OS on the SSD and all is nominal -- works fine as expected.
I also wanted to refresh the Win10 HDD (that had a bunch of bloatware), and it "appears" to reinstall just fine (finishes with no errors, etc...) THEN...
I go into the bios, and I'm able to select the 1TB drive as the boot disk. Then I restart and I get an error that says "disk does not contain bootable media, etc.."
At this point, I thought installing Easy BCD would help me fix the issue so I booted back into the Win 10 SSD and installed Easy BCD. At this point, I made both the SSD and HDD "boot options" (in Easy BCD).
And... then I go back into the Bios and it shows the 1TB disk (and the 500GB SSD) as physically there... AND I can see the BOTH disks from Disk Management in the OS of the 500GB SSD, YET... I can't select the 1TB drive as a "boot option" in the bios. Huh???
What in the world is going on??? Please help!
As an aside just thinking out load... Maybe I wiped out the UEFI along the way? I can get into the bios, but I'm not sure how to access the UEFI graphical type interface that I've seen on the Asus MoBo that runs my desktop rig.