I have cloned my laptop's C drive to an external SSD drive that was attached at the USB port. I know that the clone worked, because I can see the SSD's file structure in Windows Explorer. Also, I think this proves that the USB port is functioning properly.
I shutdown the PC and rebooted with the SSD external drive attached, and pressed F12 to get to the BIOS settings menu. The BIOS menu appeared, as expected. I then went to Boot Sequence, but the USB drive wasn't displayed--only Windows Boot Manager and the laptop's C drive. I repeated the sequence and pressed F2 at startup, but the USB drive is still absent from the Boot Sequence screen. Finally, I plugged the external drive into the second USB port on my laptop, but the results were the same.
Can someone help me, please?
Thanks in advance.
Steve J