Having bought my XPS with 2TB HDD and 256GB SSD, I found the SSD was not the boot disk. USing Paragon DIsk Copier I migrated Win 8.1 from the HDD to the SSD. All appeared to work well.
Then, noticing that my BIOS was at A03 and the latest BIOS showing on the support page was A08, I decided to update. Bad move. The process reached the "Flash ME" part of the process, had an error and aborted. Foolishly I tried to reboot and was unable to get past an error loop.
Finally after much hair tearing I rebooted with the recovery CD and reinstalled WIn 8 and all the laborious updates to get back to a fully working machine. Which is where I am now.
However, now when I reboot, I am confronted with a screen which asks which version of Win 8.1 Iwant to use - the one on volume 4 or the one on volume 8. By sheer good luck I chose 8 and it has consistently worked. But I want ti know why and how to fix it.
Using a Partition Manager tool, Ihave looked at both the HDD and the SSD. HDd has WINRETOOLS, ESP and PBR Image partitions in addition to the data partition. The SSD as a number of empty partitions and the C: data partition which shows as the boot disk. The HDD does not show any partition as a boot partition.
This is all incredibly messy. I have sourced a new SSD and another 2TB HDD. How can I get this into a clean orderly shape with all the appropriate partitions on the SSD/ boot disk?