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New boot disk doesn't appear in BIOS boot devices but does in F8 menu
I recently upgraded from a 120GB mirrored pair boot device to a 1TB mirrored pair boot device (2x SSD). The new boot mirror device is named Volume0_SSD_Boot. In the BIOS boot order list, there is no such device listed (nor are the individual disk device names listed either). When I press F8 to bring up a boot device menu on restart, it's there, I can select it, and it boots successfully. However, when I just restart and do nothing, it says there's no boot device and to go back and pick it in the BIOS.
Some things of note:
In the RAID setup menu, the devices are listed as...
Disk 1: in mirror Volume1_HDD_Data
Disk 3: in mirror Volume1_HDD_Data
Disk 2: in mirror Volume0_SSD_Data
Disk 4: in mirror Volume0_SSD_Data
Disk 5: non-RAID disk 2TB HDD
However, after booting into Windows, the disks are listed (in Disk Management tool) as:
Disk 0: (E:) non-RAID disk 2TB HDD
Disk 1: (D:) the volume from Volume1_HDD_Data
Disk 2: (C:) the volume from Volume0_SSD_Data
Disk3-6: Removable memory cards
Disk7: (N:) removable USB HDD
CD-ROM 0: (R:) DVD+-RW drive
In BIOS boot order menu, it lists the Volume1_HDD_Data volume and the CD-ROM device, but NOT Volume0_SSD_Data. Once again, I can boot to Volume0_SSD_Data successfully, if I use the F8 boot menu, but it will not boot there automatically, and BIOS has no clue it exists.
The boot volume consists of...
Partition 1: 102 MB NTFS: System Reserved
(note, no other System Reserved partition exists on any disk/volume that might interfere)
Partition 2: 921.07 GB NTFS: (C:) Windows partition
Partition 3: 542 MB NTFS: another system (recovery?) partition created when I upgraded to Win10
Partition 4: 9.81GB: unallocated
I just upgraded this system successfully from Win7 Ultimate to Win10 21H2.