Windows 10: fresh windows install on SSD. Bios will not recognize SSD as bootable drive

ive got an old Lenovo G50-45. I wanted to upgrade the HD to SSD so I bought an HP 512GB SSD. At first the drive was only visible in disk part but after I created a volume and partitioned it and assigned a drive letter it became visible everywhere. Next I tried using clonezilla on the drive to clone the old HD but the bios wouldn't recognize the drive at all. I tried disabling safe boot in the BIOS but no change.As far as I can tell the bios is uptodate. I ended up downloading windows 10 to the SSD and plugged it in but it still wouldn't recognize it. At this point the HD is still installed and

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fresh windows install on SSD. Bios will not recognize SSD as bootable drive

ive got an old Lenovo G50-45. I wanted to upgrade the HD to SSD so I bought an HP 512GB SSD. At first the drive was only visible in disk part but after I created a volume and partitioned it and assigned a drive letter it became visible everywhere. Next I tried using clonezilla on the drive to clone the old HD but the bios wouldn't recognize the drive at all. I tried disabling safe boot in the BIOS but no change, sata controller was in AHCI mode. As far as I can tell the bios is uptodate. I ended up downloading windows 10 to the SSD and plugged it in but it still wouldn't recognize it. At this point the HD is still installed and the SSD is connected using a usb/sata3 cable. after more reading, chat GPT, and YouTube I thought the issue might be its not reading bc the HD is still installed so I then removed the HD and installed the SSD with windows 10 on it and still no bootable drive found. I then switched back to the HD via the usb/sata 3 cable and the system kept rebooting so I removed the SSD and installed the HD alone and went through a recovery and the whole thing is wiped lol so now I can't get back in to see any system info. please help..Why won't the BIOS see the drive at all? I don't care about cloning the HD I have nothing of value on there I just want a fresh install. the only thing I can think of is a driver or SSD compatibility issue

Lenovo G50-45 {80E3}

CPU: AMD A8-6410

mother board: lancer B52.

Bios version A2CN38WW (v2.06)

Bootmode (UEFI)

USB boot (enabled)

 

Fresh installation of windows 10 onto SSD

I've recently bought a laptop which came with the OS installed on the HDD. However, I've bought a M.2 SSD that I want to load the operating system onto and boot from.

I've tried cloning the hard drive to the SSD to fresh installing windows 10 onto the SSD except neither works. When I tried cloning the HDD, the files appeared on the SSD, but in the BIOS settings it wasn't recognized as a bootable drive. On the other hand,
when I tried to do a fresh install of the OS onto the SSD, it automatically re-installed on the HDD without giving me an option.

Some help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris

 

SSD not recognized as bootable option

Hi, I am facing some issues with Windows installation in my new SSD. It is a Kingston A400 with 120Gb. First, I tried to make a clone from my HDD to the SSD, but it was not recognized as bootable. Then, I installed windows from a pen drive with the HDD also
installed (I did not know it is not recommended). It also did not work. Then, I formatted the SSD and installed windows again without the HDD and with the SSD in the motherboard, not in the caddy. This time it kind of worked, because the bootmanager asks me
to choose one of the windows options. However, in Bios it is not shown as bootable and when I choose the new windows there's an error: 0xc00000e, the winload.efi does not exist. I can still start windows from the HDD and I even did a system restore, but it
did not help. I have also played around with bcdboot, bcdedit, bootrec but none of them helped. In fact, bootrec commands return "the file specified could not be found". The automatic startup repair says it cannot fix it and the Kingston SSD Manager tool does
not recognize the SSD as well. However, I can copy and install things on it while in windows. All the BIOS parameters are correct, AHCI, fastboot off, secure boot off and so on. I am desperate, please help!