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After install, 1st boot always fails, retry succeeds
I recently purchased a Dell Latitude E6430, which is exhibiting a rather odd problem. I removed the included 5400RPM 500GB hard drive and replaced it with an SSD. The first Windows 10 installation attempt failed with a message to the effect that there were no bootable partitions. Following some online advice, I reset the BIOS (which switched from legacy to UEFI mode) and tried to reinstall. This got me further.
Now at first boot, I see a prompt that says "No bootable devices" followed by a prompt to hit F1, F2 or F5. Hitting F1 tries to boot again - and the second attempt succeeded. The laptop booted up and I was able to complete setup.
But now every time the laptop boots, I'm presented with this annoying prompt. So far hitting F1 to retry boot has always succeeded. Not sure what the problem might be. I tried "cleaning" the disk once with BOOTPART from the recovery shell, but that did not improve the problem once Win10 was re-installed.
Any other suggestions?