I have a laptop that I installed an ssd(had to swap the hdd and merge the ssd over) however whenever I do a cold boot I have to go into the bios in order to boot.
I'm assuming my issue lies with how many partitions I have and their order. I saw that I have an unallocated partition and Cannot delete it using the default partition manager. So I installed a third party partition app and to delete the partition, but I am unable to. I provide some screenshots to help with troubleshooting. Any help is much appreciated, I do not care about the contents on my ssd (recently formatted it) so all solutions welcome
You can't at least not in Windows. You might be able to move the partitions in a live Linux disc or USB with gparted, but it is risky to move them. The safest method would be to format the disk and reinstall Windows.
to reinstall, do I need a key? I imagine I would put windows 10 on a usb drive and then boot from that but i'm not sure what I need for authentication purposes