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the issue you are having - is because when you did the New installation of windows 10 on your New (second) SDD
The new installation place the boot record on the old EFI Partition (which has been deleted)
You must shrink one of the partitions on the New SSD by 228MB and recreate an EFI partition
and will have to also have to recreate the the MS Reserved partition
Then write the boot files to the new EFI partition
Actually you are way better off, just unplugging the OLD HDD and doing a clean Installaion of windows 10 on the New SDD
then plugin the Old HDD for use as a second DATA drive
Yeah, this is what i tried to do earlier but didn't have much success. The problem i had with this was, i needed the SSD to be GPT for UEFI to work, but in order to copy the boot files an installation of Windows already had to be installed.
I installed Windows onto my SSD and attempted to copy the boot files to an EFI partition that i had created on the normal hard drive but this didn't seem to work. Maybe if i do it the other way around like you say, then it would be okay.
It's difficult though because i have little experience with using DiskPart to create these setups. Last time i followed this tutorial, but i found it a bit difficult to adapt to my current situation. I'm well outside of my comfort zone with this stuff.
Windows 8 can't start due to missing EFI partition.
Actually you are way better off, just unplugging the OLD HDD and doing a clean Installaion of windows 10 on the New SDD
then plugin the Old HDD for use as a second DATA drive
Haha, i changed the wording of my message since you quoted me. That's a good point, i did think about doing this earlier but almost forgot. I will have a look and see whether there's an option, but unfortunately this is a laptop BIOS and usually they can be quite limited with the functionality.
Exactly you are right. I also did the same and installed windows 10 as a clean install and now i am enjoying with uefi native mode. Yes when you create bootable setup in flash drive you use gpt partition scheme for uefi. But before doing to install for the first time either delete the whole hardisk partition from the same wizard where you partitions while installing and create new ones according to ur needs. But what i did when i first saw the screen install now for windows 10. I chose repair this pc and somehow i managed to get into command prompt and used the diskpart program. I am sure you aware of this. In which you just use these 3 commans . List disk . Select disk # . Clean . Convert gpt . These 4 commands convert your partition table from mbr into gpt and that then you exit and install it from the start again as normal. Its that simple
Does your laptop came with windows 10 oem preinstalled??
Here lies another issue > stop using RUFUS
MS does not use RUFUS..
MS setup media will boot Legacy and UEFI depending on the PC's Firmware settings
Most Newer PC's boot UEFI by default
The issue comes from having legacy support enabled in the Firmware and you selecting the WRONG USB boot Mode from the Boot menu