Upgraded SSD as boot drive and having issues with Windows booting

I purchased a Dell Alienware with a primary 256GB Samsung SSD drive and a 1TB HDD drive. I placed my OS and as little as possible on the C drive and most everything else on the D drive. I thought this would be sustainable but found I was wrong. I purchased 1TB Samsung SSD drive and added it to the second connection on the laptop. Using Acronis Clone, I cloned the 256GB drive to the new 1TB drive. I booted to the new drive without issue. When I rebooted, I found that Windows was going to the original SSD hard drive by default. When I rebooted, I clicked the F12 key which would allow me to assign the boot drive to the new 1TB drive. Problem is I would have to do this on every boot.

The SSD drive have 6 volumes on them. I went ahead deleted the OS volume on the original SSD hard drive. I thought (well I hoped) this would resolve the issue. When it reboots it goes into an automatic recovery mode. The only way around this is to click F12 to assign the boot to the new 1TB SSD drive.

I want to configure the machine to have the new 1TB SSD drive as the default boot drive.

Problem 2: I am unable to delete the volumes of the original 256 SSD GB drive from the diskmgmt.msc. I would like to delete the volumes and format the drive as a single disk. I am unable to use the diskpart to delete the volumes also. I am cautious on doing this through the diskpart because the names are duplicate between the two SSD drives. I'd hate to remove the wrong volume.

Thank you for any help or advise you may in resolving the boot order and secondarily the formatting of the old SSD drive.

If you want your new 1TB SSD to be the boot drive I think you need to go into your bios and set it to be the boot drive. Another way to do this is to remove the 256 GB SSD from your system and replace it with the 1TB SSD clone. I also suggest before you try to format your old SSD make sure everything is working.

You need to change the boot priority in UEFI settings to the new 1TB drive first.