I have a laptop with HDD and SSD. On the HDD is Windows 10. SSD can not be selected as a boot. Can I transfer Windows system files to SSD, leaving the boot partition on the HDD? So that when trying to boot from the HDD, he referred to the system, which lies on the SSD.

  • When loading a bios, press F8 - the menu for selecting a source of loading should appear. If there is no ssd there, then most likely you need to look at the bios settings. And as you suggested so no one does. - sapeg 5:56 pm
  • It offers three options: USB, HDD / SSD, LAN. If you select the second - it is loaded from the HDD. If you install Windows on a SSD through a USB flash drive, then at boot it will be loaded from the HDD and output that there is nothing there. Those. The BIOS does not display the SSD and does not want to boot from it, because from the factory it was used as a cache. And I want to install a system on it. To do this, I came up with a scheme: we tell the BIOS to boot from the HDD, and the HDD will load the system with SSD. But I don’t know how to do it right. There are such systems as PrimeOS (based on Android), which can be installed from under Windows on any disk, and there will be a DualBoot. - Hugo Khrapov 6:09 pm
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    Take out the hdd, put the system on ssd, put the hdd back in - Talleyran at 6:14 pm
  • HDD costs 2.5 ", and SSD through a separate m.2 NGGF type B. Both SATA3. And even if you advise you to do so, the BIOS will not see the SSD, will not boot from it, will write that the system is not found. - Hugo Khrapov
  • I think to make a link to the SSD via the Boot Manager on the HDD. - Hugo Khrapov pm

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Here is the sequence of actions:

  • Download the OS installer program (I will not give you any links, you can find them on any website on the request "Installing Windows 10 without BIOS").

  • Extract the installer from the archive.

  • Run it. Install the OS. (The disk must be at least 30-40 GB)

You will have the old Windows, but you can manually remove it. But I would use the BIOS so as not to fool my brains

  • Well, I'm admin \ build engineer. In programming, I almost do not rummage, but the four-thread set up - please. And I'm sitting here exactly to answer such questions. - don Rumata 9:04 pm
  • @donRumata Well, I only know the way with the installer. Answer you, I just broaden my horizons. - Konstantin_SH
  • I wrote above what I would do in the place of the author. My program dealt more with "Don't ask programmers." About "on any site on request": T-shirts from 2014 (the first release of w10) lay out the Windows on their site, no need to climb anywhere. Regarding the ways "how to install Windows": I personally like this: ru.stackoverflow.com/q/937143/191416 . But the installation features are not even on the article, but on the whole wiki. But some problems disappear (but others appear, hehe). - don Rumata
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And now essentially. In order for the BIOS to properly select the desired disk, you must turn off the secure boot and switch the boot mode from uefi to legacy. Then calmly swap any devices.

Or put it clean in uefi mode with hdd removed, from the official Microsoft image, as I already described in the comment. Then, when installing, the system will prescribe the required mount point into the BIOS.

Or, transfer the 10-ku from one disk to another along with the boot partition and so that the license does not fly off the Acronis True Image can. In the form of iso, recorded on a flash drive, he does not ask anything about the license, only tsss. If in this case you physically swap the discs, then you can touch nothing more.

Or, if after installation / copying to another disk, the download still does not occur, start all from the same Windows disk (flash drives with official iso) in recovery mode and say that there is a problem with the download. There is a chance that the recovery utility will fix mbr and it will work. It helped me so much on some capricious devices.

UPD. If your SSD is in a PCIe card form factor, then most likely neither Acronis nor any other program from under Bios will see it. There are non-standard drivers. In this case, only the installation disk (flash drive) Win10 can help. Such a problem exists for example on Lenovo laptops.

  • My BIOS only works in UEFI, I cannot switch to Legacy. There are only three devices. Even if you remove the HDD - SSD does not appear in the BIOS. But in Windows in the device manager it is. With the license there will be no problems, it is in my bios embedded from the factory. SSD m.2 works through SATA3, the PCI line is not connected there. - Hugo Khrapov
  • The SSD will most likely appear as soon as the UEFI bootloader is on it, I had the same story with the second HDD on the laptop, to install the system with UEFI I need to boot from the installation DVD or flash drive in UEFI mode - Pavel Gridin