cheifbrody
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Hi
I'm hoping someone can help as I'm not doing great at this upgrade.
After constantly battling for space as Windows 10 wants to upgrade I bought a WD GREEN M.2 2280 SSD 240gb
Installed physically ok
Cloned 32gb Windows drive to new WD 240gb drive using SSD using EaseUS
Disabled SCC eMMC Support
Windows launched and was running on new drive but had no additional space, all free space was unallocated
Resized Windows partition using Aomei, now have a Windows partition using the unallocated drive capacity so now at 226gb. Yay. For some reason Windows is now showing a D: partition listing it as a primary partition. Remove drive letter in WIndows Disk Management to hide that.
Now to update Windows at last to shut it up.
Windows updates carry out
Come back after a while and all has not gone to plan, I am now greeted with an EFI Shell Version 2.5 screen
After exiting out of that, head to BIOS and see that my new drive has disappeared from the Boot Option Order menu.
BIOS does however see the 240gb drive listed in the SATA Controller Configuration page though, so it knows it is there.
Re-enable SCC eMMC Support again to boot onto original 32gb drive, Windows loads off this and within Windows explorer it can see both drives.
BIOS again, disable SCC eMMC Support, exit and greeted with EFI Shell Screen again. Exit command out of that again and see what happens. Continues on, detects no media on IP4 and IP6 and then proceeds to load Windows from the 240gb drive?!?
So ultimately I can now use my machine again but something is clearly amiss here, whilst not the end of the world having to exit from EFI screen on boot, its a bit of a pain.
Tried enabling CSM support in BIOS Boot Option Menu which then does show WD 240gb drive but does not show it as Windows Boot, just its hard drive name. Selected this as only boot option and I just get a black screen with a CLI cursor that does not respond to input. Backed that change out as clearly that wasn't right.
Does anyone have any idea where I have gone wrong?
Here is how Windows is seeing the drive now in Disk Management if that offers any clues (I'm not sure where partition 4 has come from, it wasn't there before I updated Windows)
I'm hoping someone can help as I'm not doing great at this upgrade.
After constantly battling for space as Windows 10 wants to upgrade I bought a WD GREEN M.2 2280 SSD 240gb
Installed physically ok
Cloned 32gb Windows drive to new WD 240gb drive using SSD using EaseUS
Disabled SCC eMMC Support
Windows launched and was running on new drive but had no additional space, all free space was unallocated
Resized Windows partition using Aomei, now have a Windows partition using the unallocated drive capacity so now at 226gb. Yay. For some reason Windows is now showing a D: partition listing it as a primary partition. Remove drive letter in WIndows Disk Management to hide that.
Now to update Windows at last to shut it up.
Windows updates carry out
Come back after a while and all has not gone to plan, I am now greeted with an EFI Shell Version 2.5 screen
After exiting out of that, head to BIOS and see that my new drive has disappeared from the Boot Option Order menu.
BIOS does however see the 240gb drive listed in the SATA Controller Configuration page though, so it knows it is there.
Re-enable SCC eMMC Support again to boot onto original 32gb drive, Windows loads off this and within Windows explorer it can see both drives.
BIOS again, disable SCC eMMC Support, exit and greeted with EFI Shell Screen again. Exit command out of that again and see what happens. Continues on, detects no media on IP4 and IP6 and then proceeds to load Windows from the 240gb drive?!?
So ultimately I can now use my machine again but something is clearly amiss here, whilst not the end of the world having to exit from EFI screen on boot, its a bit of a pain.
Tried enabling CSM support in BIOS Boot Option Menu which then does show WD 240gb drive but does not show it as Windows Boot, just its hard drive name. Selected this as only boot option and I just get a black screen with a CLI cursor that does not respond to input. Backed that change out as clearly that wasn't right.
Does anyone have any idea where I have gone wrong?
Here is how Windows is seeing the drive now in Disk Management if that offers any clues (I'm not sure where partition 4 has come from, it wasn't there before I updated Windows)