WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER STILL SHOWING HDD AS BOOT DEVICE

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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

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Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Independent Advisor

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.

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Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2024-07-25T14:33:07+00:00

Apologies. Please use the Windows 11 23H2 ISO or the USB setup disk you already have.
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Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2024-07-24T17:03:45+00:00

Addendum:

If you have an existing USB setup disk, you can use that instead of downloading the ISO. The rest of the steps are the same.
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Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2024-07-24T16:59:30+00:00
The Winre.wim file must be extracted from the ISO. Please follow the steps to extract it from the ISO.
1. Download the 22H2 ISO using the Media Creation Tool.
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2265055
1. Run the Media Creation Tool and select the ISO option when prompted. Download the ISO.
2. Mount the ISO by double-clicking it. A drive letter will be assigned to the ISO.
3. Open the Sources folder in the ISO.
4. Open install.esd or install.wim using 7-Zip.
Winre.wim is located in the following path in the WIM/ESD file:

"Sources\install.wim\1\Windows\System32\Recovery"
1. Copy Winre.wim to the Desktop.
2. Then, move to the C:\Windows\System32\Recovery.
See also: The 7-Zip method here:

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/extract-file...

Let me know once the above steps are done.

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Ramesh Srinivasan 87,865 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2024-07-24T16:50:15+00:00

Please boot into Windows and run this command from admin Command Prompt:

dir c:\windows\system32\recovery /a

Post the output.
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