WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER STILL SHOWING HDD AS BOOT DEVICE

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2024-07-23T04:36:02+00:00

Hello there, I am having a very strange issue with my HP laptop, I purchased this laptop couple of years ago and few months back I decided to upgrade my laptop from HDD to SSD, so I purchased a NVMe gen4 SSD and to install new WINDOWS on SSD I disconnected my HDD and installed windows 11 on my SSD, Laptop worked perfectly fine for few months but now I noticed a very strange thing in my pc, i.e., tho my windows is installed in my SSD but in boot manager it still shows HDD as the boot device even I've tried resetting the HDD, next I tried to disconnect my HDD but as I do so my pc says "no boot device found" further when I opened BIOS my SSD is not listed in boot manager, Very weird right?? Next, I thought about reinstalling windows using USB installation media but none of my drives show up on the installation page even after installing drivers. I ran DISKPART but still my drives don't show up. Can someone tell and help me to fix this thing? Tho system works perfectly normal

Here are few images regarding my problem

Image 1- when I try accessing WRE

Image 2- SSD as my WINDOWS DEVICE

Image 3- CONFIGURATION SHOWED SSD

Image 4- BOOT MANAGER NOT SHOWING SSD

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Devices and drivers

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Ramesh Srinivasan 87,860 Reputation points Independent Advisor
2024-07-24T02:26:10+00:00

Hi Sudhanshu,

Creating an EFI partition on Disk 1 should solve the problem.

From admin Command Prompt, run:

diskpart
select volume C
shrink desired=200
create partition efi size=200
sel disk 1
list part
exit

Post the output.

See also:

How to Move EFI System Partition to Another Drive in Windows 10 or 11:

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/create-move-...

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  1. Ramesh Srinivasan 87,860 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-07-24T08:36:04+00:00

    I'm not sure why the EFI partition shows up as a RAW partition in this screenshot:

    https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.c...

    Can you please run these commands?

    diskpart
select disk 1
list part
list vol
exit
reagentc /info

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  2. Ramesh Srinivasan 87,860 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-07-24T07:30:34+00:00

    In this screenshot, the EFI partition is Disk 1, Partition 3:

    https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.c...

    However, the subsequent commands seem to have formatted the Recovery partition instead. That's very strange. We have additional work to do now-- i.e., rebuild the Recovery partition after fixing the EFI.

    Please post a screenshot of disk management.

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  3. Ramesh Srinivasan 87,860 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-07-24T03:50:03+00:00

    Run:

    diskpart
select disk 1
select part 3
format fs=fat32 quick
assign letter=Y
list vol
exit
bcdboot c:\windows  /s  Y:  /f UEFI

    Please post screenshot.

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  4. Ramesh Srinivasan 87,860 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-07-23T05:10:46+00:00

    Hi SudhanshuQX, This is Ramesh.

    Please open Disk Management and maximize it. In the top pane, expand the columns so that the text is visible.

    Post a screenshot.

    Open an admin Command Prompt and run:

    bcdedit

    Post screenshot.

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