Thank you! I'm glad it helped.

Thanks for watching! I'm going to be posting many more computer tutorials. I was an IT Engineer for 8 years. At some point, I'll go in to servers, more advanced networking, and commercial routers and firewalls too.

Hi. Is this after switching to UEFI boot mode? If so, it's because in UEFI boot mode, the BIOS won't show it as a boot option if there isn't a bootable GPT partition on the external HDD. UEFI boot mode can only see GPT partitions. However, you should still be able to still see, and boot from, the external HDD if you switch back to legacy boot mode. You can actually toggle between legacy and UEFI if you still need to boot a legacy partition. It's kind of pain in the butt to go in to BIOS and switch to legacy boot every time you want to boot legacy partitions, but it can be done.

Thank you! Can you see the additional ssd drives in the system BIOS? If they don't show up there, make sure the SATA ports that they are connected to are turned on in the bios. Those should be under: BIOS>system config>drives. If the ssd drives sata ports aren't turned on, you can turn them on there. If they are turned on in BIOS, then you should be able to see them in disk manager, but that does not mean they can be used by the operating system yet. You can run the command "diskmgmt.msc" and if you see the ssd drives in disk manager, then format them with NTFS or exFAT file system, assign a drive letter, and you should be able to use use them at that point. And lastly, do you have a hardware RAID controller? If so, that has to be configured differently, and also could explain why the other ssd drives aren't showing up. I can walk you through that but maybe we could do it through email because it would be a little more complex. Let me know....

@@frankwestphal8532Dell inspiron 5567 I have installed SSD sometime ago and was everything fine. Yesterday it appeared a notification to update firmware. It started but some error happened and didn't installed properly but I could still use the notebook. Hours later it crashed and when I try do turn it on appears a message "no bootable devices". I tryed to change between legacy and uefi following the recommended setups for each but didn't work. I can't start the computer so i'll try to updates bios and drivers using a pen drive and hope it fixes

Hmmm, that is interesting. There are 2 things I can say that might help: 1. Verify that you're getting the BIOS directly from Dell here... www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=9f62t&oscode=biosa&productcode=vostro-1510 And 2: Maybe try installing the A13 BIOS first, and then jump to A15 if you don't already have A13 running. Also, you could reinstall A13 and then try jumping to A15. I have never encountered a BIOS update failure as long as the BIOS installation package was correct for the computer. It sounds like you have the details verified. It's also possible a hardware issue could prevent the BIOS update, such as bad RAM. If you have the option to run diagnostics on the hardware, I would try that too, just to rule out any possible hardware issues that might prevent the BIOS from installing. And lastly, you may be able to execute a BIOS update from within the BIOS itself. I'm not sure about that but you could see if the option exists in your current BIOS, and this would circumvent the operating system as a variable that might prevent the A15 installation. I hope this helps.

Hi, and thank you for watching. I cover that at these times, in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hZtjra19q9rUiJs.html 4. Updating the system BIOS/firmware: 19:34 System BIOS/firmware UEFI boot mode settings: 26:22 Here's the link to the drivers page for that model. Click "show all" and then either scroll through for the latest version of system bios, or type in "bios" in the driver search. Be sure to get them directly from Dell. Never use a third party for drivers, because it is often malware. Always get them directly from the manufacturer of the computer or device. www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/optiplex-9020-desktop/drivers

Hi, and thank you for watching. Technically, yes you can run windows 11 on it. To summarize, I would say that if you have an i5 with 4 or 8GB of RAM and an SSD in it already, it would be worth the effort to install windows 11 (but 8GB of RAM would be ideal). If the system specs are lower than that, I would upgrade each component, or get new hardware altogether. You can check all of your system specs easily with these commands: "windows key + R" to get the RUN window, then "msinfo32.exe" to see the exact current specs. A couple of important notes though: 1. It will currently have either an i3 or an i5 processor. Either way you could run windows 11, but it'll be a little slow with an i3. However, you can buy a used i5 super cheap on ebay and install it to upgrade the processor, if you want to. A fast dual core or quad core i5 would have no problem running windows 11 smoothly. 2. It can support up to 8GB of RAM. I would upgrade to 8GB of RAM to run Windows 11 well on it. 3. If it doesn't have an SSD, that should be upgraded for sure. A machinal hard drive will be the first bottleneck on performance on pretty much any PC at this point. 4. The 3550 does not have a TPM chip and that is "officially" a requirement for windows 11, however, it is easy to bypass that requirement. I show exactly how to do it in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7yintCgzK29cY0.html 5. Make sure to install the latest system BIOS if you do decide to install windows 11. This is the latest version: www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=19xry It could be a cool project to upgrade anything that needs it, because if you run a fast i5, 8GB of RAM, and an SSD in it, it will run windows 11 just fine and it won't be slow. You'd probably be looking at 100 max for all the upgrades (if you even need them to begin with). Latitudes are designed to be opened up, and have components changed relatively easily compared to non business class series of computers.

@@frankwestphal8532 Thank you for the comprehensive explanation and breakdown I just got this machine so I'm still exploring its in-depth items..thanks for bridging this gap The SMBIOS version is 2.8 BIOS mode is UEFI The processor is i5-5200U @ 2.2 GHz RAM is 8.00 GB

Hi. There should be another key you can press to get the bios settings menu while the computer is starting up. If it's a dell computer the key is: "F2". If it's another manufacturer, just google search the manufacturer plus access bios settings. Examples of google searches: "HP access bios settings" or "Acer access bios settings". You will be able to find which key it is that takes you to the bios settings during startup, specifically for your manufacturer. Going through the one time boot menu is just one way to access it, but there is another key that will take you directly there instead of going through the one time boot menu.

Hi. I believe that is because there was already a UEFI bootable partition on my SSD, that the firmware could see. This is because I tested all of this by actually installing windows 11 prior to doing the video, and the windows 11 installation creates that UEFI partition (which the firmware calls "Windows Boot Manager") during the OS install. If you switch to UEFI boot mode, but have not yet installed Windows 11, I believe you will see nothing there. And that is ok because there shouldn't be a UEFI bootable partition, until after the operating system is installed. That partition is created during the OS install. And after the OS is installed it will automatically see that new UEFI partition and boot from it. The first step is just to enable UEFI. Once UEFI is enabled, then you can boot from USB and install windows 11 from the USB drive on to the system drive. After you have done that, if you go back and look at the one time boot menu again, it should then see the new UEFI bootable partition (which the firmware calls "Windows Boot Manager"). that was created during the install. Just enable UEFI boot mode, then reboot, and choose the USB drive to boot from. In my video "How to Create USB Flash Thumb Drive from an ISO Image File Windows 11", I show how to create the bootable USB media too. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6x-ja-Tv5nemmQ.html Let me know if you run into any issues.

Thank you!

@@frankwestphal8532 most welcome

Hi. No, this is a BIOS (also called system firmware) boot mode change. It does not affect the data on any disk(s) in the computer. You really only want to make this change if you're installing a new win 10 or win 11 operating system.

Are you running windows 10 on it currently? If so, the reason for this would most likely be that windows 10 was installed on a legacy MBR partition. And if you switch to UEFI boot mode, that legacy MBR partition that windows 10 is running on, cannot be read in UEFI boot mode, therefore the computer cannot load the operating system. If you go into your BIOS and switch it back to legacy boot mode, it should boot up and load the operating system just fine again. You only want to switch to UEFI boot mode if you are going to do a clean install of windows 11, or windows 10 but with UEFI boot mode. Windows 10 can use either legacy boot mode, or UEFI boot modes. But windows 11 can ONLY use UEFI boot mode. And lastly, you can update your BIOS firmware without switching to UEFI boot mode. The reason I did it in this video was to prepare the computer to run windows 11.

It say uefi boot only ?

Pc dell 3040 MT

same :(

i know everything is "continue at your own risk" but dang it 😭won't even turn on rip

Hi and thank you for this very detailed set of questions. You are absolutely doing your due diligence on this issue, and that is highly respectable. Nice work! I know this is a late response, but I want to get it archived for future reference... I have not used Ventoy to create bootable USB media, but because Windows offers an official USB bootable media creation tool, I recommend using that to create your Windows 10 bootable media. Windows 10 can support legacy MBR partitioning schemes, and current GPT partitioning schemes, (these are what determine whether or not the operating system is running in legacy or UEFI boot mode), and I "believe" that bootable media created using the Windows Media creation tool, will automatically conform to your disk partitioning scheme. To answer this with absolute certainty, I would have to recreate the entire problem, and reverse engineer the solution. But I believe you're running into an issue of trying to update the system bios on an MBR partitioning scheme disk, when the latest BIOS options (A23 and A24) only support a GPT partitioned disk, which would translate into those bios versions only supporting UEFI boot mode.. As I said, what I'm throwing out here is speculation based on my experience. To resolve it with certainty, would require testing multiple options to see what the results are, in order to identify with absolute certainty the problem. But I will say with general certainty, that if you use the Windows 10 bootable USB media creation tool, to install your operating system , you will not run into this issue. I think during the media creation process with Ventoy, you selected MBR, and although Windows 10 will install on that partitioning scheme, it could also possibly prevent future BIOS updates from being able to be installed through that operating system, on that disk partitioning scheme, because the BIOS updates A23 and A24 only support GPT disk partitioning schemes. The long story short here, is that if you're installing Windows 10 or Windows 11, use the Windows 10 or Windows 11 official USB bootable media creation tool from Microsoft. Other tools like Ventoy, and Rufus can be extremely useful when you need to customize various options, but if you need a straightforward installation without having to do much technical work, the official windows bootable USB media creation tools are the way to go to install operating systems.