ReapersMemoir

I finished rebuilding my PC on my new motherboard and went to to boot it up. On my old boot drive I have 2 partions 1 is a windows media installation tool and the other is my windows 10 install with a game or 2 and all my desktop files and downloads on it. Before the switch it would load to the boot option screen asking if I wanted to boot to windows 10 or the install tool. After switching everything, it would boot straight to the install media and as far as I can tell booting to windows from it is no longer an option. After some attempts to repair the original install I decided I might as well just install windows to my m.2 NVME drive since I wanted to do that anyway. Installing windows onto an NVME drive is a headache involving unplugging all your other drives and fiddling with some bios options. I used this guide https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/cant-boot-from-m-2-nvme-ssd.3365143/post-20482537 and managed to get it installed using a USB windows install tool and recognized as a boot device. But now instead of a fresh windows setup menu I'm told to reboot and select a proper device. I've tried switching which m.2 slot the ssd is in, every combo of CSM and Secure boot settings and deleting all partions on the m.2 drive and reinstalling windows again and every time I get that proper boot device screen. Not really sure what to do at this point. I have to sleep for work and I'll be attempting to install windows on a HDD make a copy of everything from my sata SSD and reinstalling windows to the old SSD instead but ideally I would be able to boot from the M.2. CPU: 2700x BIOS Version: 2607 x64 Old: AsRock b450m R4.0 New: ASUS TUF Gaming X570p wifi Old: Samsung 500gb 860 evo New: WD 1TB Black SN750

Alright will do, thanks a lot to both of you for the help, I'll let you know how things went. You know in the likely case some other teenager winds up in the same situation lol

all good id rather have all my bases covered as well, im not too worried about it my schools IT is kind of stupid but super dick, so its like a 1 in 100,000 chance that I run into a problem but it'll be a big problem if i do

Thanks a lot for your in depth /How i could get f***ed over/ knowledge though

Yeah there's like 800+ kids with laptops at my school maybe more

The laptops are rollover ready so when I graduate they can give my laptop to someone else if they want/need to. anyone can log in on any laptop and access their H drive while at school, and it creates another local user file as well so i think ill be fine

I'm guessing there's a way to work around the PC name? and I'm not sure about the active directory. I'm guessing you don't want to break rules by detailing the process of doing this but a yes or no to save me the time of googling if there isn't would be helpful

alright I have a few friends coming over this weekend right after school so they should pretty much all have their laptops on them, any idea if the MAC address will be affected? they use it to white list our laptops to the Laptop only network. not a problem if it doesn't id much rather have to go down and tell them the wifi stopped working than to tell them I made the OS stop booting

yeah I might go with that one if Ican't figure something moderately solid out.

Tons of fun lol. I have to take his drive out? or can i just plug the flashdrive into his computer with the software on it? Also the login system is a bit weird. If you care for a run down\/ But login on both computers wont be a problem might even be able to keep all of my local save data. Since I can still copy from the internal to the bootable.

Thanks a lot for the help, I'll probably give it another day or 2 of waiting to see if anyone else comes here with a fix and google searching some more in depth solutions while I wait. I'm sure you can imagine finding a fix to an issue caused potentially by a bootable drive that disables the OS but not the bios is a pretty unique problem with not many answers lol. wish me luck

Got the boot log

There is no error code it goes from the HP logo to a black screen I don't get the windows icon at all, and safe mode does the same. Only thing I can boot is the BIOS, the HP recovery options, and the bootable. Also thanks for the mention of the rules, oof. Hopefully I can figure it out before the post is flagged I'll try enabling the boot logging option from recovery and seeing if I can access the log, if one gets made, from the bootable May also be worth mention I get a box telling me that the recycling bin on drive E is corrupt asking me if I'd like to clear it, I click yes and the box continues to pop up sometimes, this started only after re-applying my accounts full access perms

Short version: School laptop Used bootable windows drive Set the internal drive to online(available) to access school files Bootable windows OS does a drive repair on drive E: a few days later (what the internal drive was recognized as by my bootable windows) In bootable windows I get "drive is not accessible permision denied" after trying to open it Shut down and attempted to boot the regular internal drive (school windows 8.1 OS) HP logo followed by permanent black screen no sign of windows at all Re launch on bootable drive Right click and change security properties to allow my account full access Check storage, hard all of the files as far as I can tell. Windows still won't boot from the interal drive. I can get the recovery menu up sometimes but I don't have an admin password for that system so I can't run any repair options and safe mode won't boot either. Other info: In bootable windows I did have to hard reset the laptop a couple of times. For reasons varying from accdental drive unplug by my friend, a usb 3 driver error causing it to stop 2 or 3 times before I updated it, a program that caused it to freeze once, and an error saying the boot drive was inaccessible randomly 2 times.(probably because of the un updated usb driver) What I think happened, just not sure how to fix it or if I'm right: During the drive repair somehow all users/systems lost some/full accees to the drive and now the system cannot boot windows from the drive because it has no access. Some sort of anti theft protocol that was activated when I accessed the drive from bootable windows Long version: My high school provided us with laptops(windows 8.1 school modified OS) obviously they restricted the shit out of our student domain log-ins. I decided to use an old 500GB HDD to make bootable windows 8.1 drive. Effectively giving me access to a full admin privileged account on the school laptop. I wanted to be able to have access to my school files when I was on the alternate windows environment while at home so I went into the disk manager and turned the internal drive online. I had been running it this way for a few days. One day I started up the bootable drive and got a "repairing drive E:" screen, I found out after letting it boot that drive E was the internal one. Double clicked it and it gave me an error message telling me access was denied. I shut down and rebooted the laptop using the internal drive instrad of the external one, windows wouldn't boot at all. After a few worried google searches I booted it back up using the external drive, right clicked the internal one and added myself to the permisson list again. To my knowledge all the files are still there, all of my files are at least, but windows won't boot. I can get the recovery menu up sometimes but I don't have an admin password for that system so I can't run any repair options and safe mode won't boot either. Before you suggest that I/why don't I just take it to the school for repair. They're dicks in the IT department and repairs take a long time so there's a chance I get in trouble and have no laptop for school, which is used heavily in some classes, if I bring it to them. So that's my last resort if i can't find another solution. Thank you in advance for any help

Alright thanks a lot for the help