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AymanFarshid
Hello,
Greetings from my small country of Bahrain. I hope all of you are healthy and safe during these times.
I just wanted to clarify a small issue I have, below are the specs of my system
Dell Optiplex 9010 MT
Win10 pro x64 licensed
Processor Intel i7 3770
16 GB RAM (4+4+4+4) DDR3
GTX 1050 2GB Graphic Card PCIe x 16 2.0 slot
Storage Samsung 256 GB SSD + 1TB default HDD OEM
Windows Virtualization and Hyperthreading is Disabled
My windows is installed on the SSD and only recently I have been having an issue that each time I restart my PC it says "boot drive not found press any key to restart machine"
However all the boot order is correct and SSD is detected in the BIOS; searching for an online fix, I found that from boot settings, selecting to boot via UEFI - Windows Boot Manager, it works fine and I am able to log in to windows. I have been using this for now.
From BIOS I found that my SATA operation is set to RAID. I have read that AHCI is better for an SSD.
I would like to ask three questions here
1. Is the boot way that I am doing right now okay or should I solve it, if so how. This happened after a plug out of power supply from my PC while shifting and never booted in this way before
2. Should I change my SATA operation to AHCI from the BIOS while i am already using windows on it and if so will this format or damage my SSD or require a reinstall of windows and my data to be backed up. Also will this change effect my secondary HDD as well or if I could disconnect it temporarily and do the change then reconnect it later.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Thank you
Ayman Farshid
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Greetings from my small country of Bahrain. I hope all of you are healthy and safe during these times.
I just wanted to clarify a small issue I have, below are the specs of my system
Dell Optiplex 9010 MT
Win10 pro x64 licensed
Processor Intel i7 3770
16 GB RAM (4+4+4+4) DDR3
GTX 1050 2GB Graphic Card PCIe x 16 2.0 slot
Storage Samsung 256 GB SSD + 1TB default HDD OEM
Windows Virtualization and Hyperthreading is Disabled
My windows is installed on the SSD and only recently I have been having an issue that each time I restart my PC it says "boot drive not found press any key to restart machine"
However all the boot order is correct and SSD is detected in the BIOS; searching for an online fix, I found that from boot settings, selecting to boot via UEFI - Windows Boot Manager, it works fine and I am able to log in to windows. I have been using this for now.
From BIOS I found that my SATA operation is set to RAID. I have read that AHCI is better for an SSD.
I would like to ask three questions here
1. Is the boot way that I am doing right now okay or should I solve it, if so how. This happened after a plug out of power supply from my PC while shifting and never booted in this way before
2. Should I change my SATA operation to AHCI from the BIOS while i am already using windows on it and if so will this format or damage my SSD or require a reinstall of windows and my data to be backed up. Also will this change effect my secondary HDD as well or if I could disconnect it temporarily and do the change then reconnect it later.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Thank you
Ayman Farshid
*** Email address is removed for privacy ***
Continue reading...