I swapped out the SATA drive on the Dell 5070. There is no NVME drive. Before I had a 256 GB drive. I put in a 1 TB drive and installed Mint on it. The previous drive also had Mint. But I must have somehow messed up the BIOS settings because now the blasted thing won’t boot.

The drive shows up on the System Info page of the BIOS:

It also shows up in the Drives page:

But I can’t choose it as a boot option:

Clicking on Add Boot Option only brings a error that it can’t find any file system. I tried restoring the settings but that didn’t help. What can I do?

  • Bell@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    My Optiplex 7060 defaults to RAID mode for SATA drives when there’s a drive in the M.2 slot. Maybe yours is set for RAID too?

  • Ludrol@szmer.info
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    8 months ago

    Did you partition the drive correctly? There is a possibility that you installed mint incorrectly.

    Try legacy boot option.

  • Yeahboiiii@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Make sure it’s in AHCI mode and not RAID. It’s probably a setting under storage, at least on newer ones it is.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Turn off secure boot? Turn off UEFI? Just try reinstalling?

    Also, does it work if you boot the USB and choose “boot from first hard drive”? That’ll tell you whether it’s the Dell boot thing or a problem with the install.