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December 23rd, 2023 03:33

XPS 13 9380 cannot see boot drive in boot sequence.

I reinstalled windows 11 on my XPS. After reinstalling, The drive will no longer show as an option in the UEFI boot sequence. In the system information it still shows that the drive is installed. I have reinstalled Windows 11 multiple times and it will not show up. In order to install Windows I need to get the USB drive to show as a bootable drive. In order to do that I need to disable secure boot, enable thunderbolt boot option, enable boot from external devices and then change to legacy boot options. I then install Windows bypassing the secure boot requirement. This is the only way I can get to install Windows. The drive is obviously showing in the windows installer at this point. After installation the drive will not show in UEFI boot sequence before reverting these settings as well as after reverting these settings. When I press add boot option in an attempt to manually add it as a boot option is can see the whole file system from Windows being installed but I cannot get it to boot from it as I'm just aimlessly choosing random file paths. If windows is not installed it will say that there is not any file system available. I have installed windows on 10s of computers and really cannot figure this out.

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December 23rd, 2023 13:35

If you were installing in Legacy Boot Mode, obviously the drive wouldn't show in UEFI boot option.

Use Windows Creation Tool to create the installation drive.

Restore BIOS settings to default, UEFI Boot Mode, Secure Boot on, TPM on.

Use F12, one time boot menu to select the installation USB drive. 

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