SSD in Laptop recognized by BIOS, No Boot Options

maxgmeyerson

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Hi,

I have an older Acer Aspire S3 with Intel I3. Recently the hard drive that came standard with the product became corrupted and I had to find a new one. My brother cloned one of his older Samsung SSDs to a newer one and gave me the older SSD. On his desktop, the said SSD is recognized by the computer and can be booted from, running Windows 10. But, when I put the SSD in my laptop, there are no boot options available, although it recognizes the device with name, etc.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks,

Max
 
Solution
Yes, Wipe the drive and install your laptops Recovery/restore disks to it.
UEFI is a secure bios and its seeing that the installed OS on the drive is not the one for your system and is preventing it from booting up.