believe it or not, I've had some SATA cables just shit the bed out of nowhere

my SSD kept dropping in and out and the OS would just freeze

I'm on a laptop, and the computer recognizes the drive, and I can use it notmslly

Normally

But it won't let me boot to it

On Lenovo laptop

<:chink:323022148870602752>

Or boot to USB device

The bootlist ONLY shows the HDD it came with

I don't know what I'm missing. The BIOs is pretty barebones compared to my desktop

Is there a boot BBS option in your BIOS/UEFI

you'd need to select the SSD in that first, if so

Nope I don't see that

I've been at this for hours. Just installing Windows doesn't work, as it will always install on same drive (but I remember being asked back in the day...)

I cloned it to the ssd and usb, but can't boot

I don't remember it being this hard on all the other PC. This Lenovo is giving me issues...

Odd indeed.

I had zero problems at all just cloning a Windows drive using 'dd'.

That computer doesn't use UEFI though, if that makes any difference whatsoever.

maybe the partition wasn't marked as bootable

depends if you dd'd the partition or the disk entirely

The entire disk, in my case.

Or perhaps I should say drive, as it was not a disk drive. <:thvnk:332928260004642827>

The partition isn't marked as bootable in disk management

Fix that then. 👍🏻

It is active though . I can use it np

How do I do that? Disk management ?

maybe

gparted has it for sure

Fuck if I know.

Yeah.

There's some command line tool for Windows too.

But I don't remember what it's called.

not fdisk

there was another one

diskpart

👍🏻

o ya

According to the DuckDuckGo.

that's it