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Hello everyone! I hope your all doing well. I am a complete novice with PC's. After getting back my motherboard from MSI after a RMA claim and getting a new processor, my pc after putting it back together still wasn't posting and I couldn't access the Bios. LED debug now lights up on VGA before it lit up at CPU. My graphics card is brand new, I only bought it a couple months ago. In a youtube comment someone suggested to switching out sata cables and to unplug all storage components including the Nvme. Come to find out my boot drive is causing the VGA debug to light up and not post. I can't even access bios. After unplugging it I can now access my bios and I'm also able to access it after installing my Nvme drive back in. What should I do? I'm guessing I need a new boot drive, but where or how should I get it. I have an extra 120gb ssd laying around and thinking about making it my temporary boot drive until my i get something with more storage. Any help or advise is much appreciated, Thank you!! My PC build if anyone needs to know Mobo: MSI MPG z590 gaming plus Processor: I9 11th gen Graphics card: MSI 4080 Corsair vegeance LPX 16gb DDR4
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Country: Sweden Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming Hi, I am planing to buy and build my first PC soon and was wondering what storage to take. I am a bit torn between the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB and Corsair Force MP510 1920 GB. The Samsung one is MLC and has 1200 TBW whilst the Corsair one is a TLC but has 3120 TBW. I know that these are overkill but i want to future proof and i intend on using the SSD for a long time and here in Sweden the is basically no price gap (little more than 10 USD). And another question that i have is how big a boot drive should be? I was planing on using a Kingston A2000 1TB. -
Hey, my first time on this forum so let me know if this is the wrong place where I have to put everything and what not. Basically I am going to build a pc soon, and I have a 240gb Sata ssd and a 500gb nvme m.2 ssd. My question is, which one should I use for the boot drive? Would there be any differences between the two? my initial idea was to make my m.2 as the boot drive and still add stuff like games to that drive and use the sata ssd as either extra storage or just apps on there so would this be a bad idea?
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Hello all, This is my first post here really looking to get help on this issue. I recently upgraded boot drive on my custom build PC. I went from a Samsung 970 Evo to a WD Black SN 850. Motherboard is an MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge WiFi with the latest click BIOS 5 and the boot type is set to UEFI not Legacy+UEFI I am able to install Windows just fine from USB but when I power off the PC and power it back on, I go straight into BIOS. The only way to boot into Windows is to press my PC Case's reset button afterwards Other things I noticed are that my SN850 is no longer recognized in BIOS, but it was earlier and was recognized as an empty drive in slot 0 when installing Windows and still recognized in the Windows OS with no errors as far as I can tell From my research hit looks like I Should be having some sort of windows boot drive as a boot option but I do not get that Before this attempt at installing windows I had another attempt but accidentally left it on Legacy+UEFI (please note that when I had my samsung 970 it was also UEFI) and I was getting a similar issue there except it was a black screen with white text at the top asking to insert boot device and restart computer. Again, this only happened when turning on PC after being off and was resolved by pressing reboot button on my PC case It was also trying to boot from my second drive for some reason which is a WD SN750 even though it was set to the 850 so I went back into bios and set it back to 850. I have tried to reinstall a 3rd time with only my SN850 inserted into the motherboard but I get the same issue and the SSD is still not being recognized in the BIOS, it says it's an empty slot but it's connected and it was showing up earlier. Edit: I have an update on this issue: so it looks like resetting CMOS helped with SN850 recognition and was able to set the boot drive to be the windows oot device but the second I powered off my PC and powered int back on, the SN850 went back to not being detected -
Basically, my problem started about three days ago we booted up to a prompt saying that no boot drive was detected. We had a guy come over and all he did was reseat and clean the M.2 pins. And we were able to boot to windows. Next day, the same thing happened. We struggled a little bit to figure out what was wrong this time, but it was still the same solution, CLEAN the M.2 pins. We only reseated it prior to that, but had no luck. So right now, with some anxiety I powered my desktop on and was met with the same prompt. To note/Some Questions: -This doesn't seem to happen only everytime I shut it down and on again, only when off for what seems like long periods of time. - My NVME (Patriot P300) which I've had for 9-10 months along with the desktop, according to CrystalDiskInfo is at 97% health. - My motherboard is a Asrock B450m Steel Legend and I haven't updated (at least manually) the BIOS at all. - My NVME's indicator light doesn't flash in the instances where it can't be detected, so it's possible that my motherboard wont send power to it? - I just RMA'd my PSU (Seasonic Focus GM 550) a couple of weeks ago and am now starting to wonder if that could causing a power issue? - Would a clean install of Windows 10 be of any help? - Is it possible and safe for me to just put it on sleep mode forever? - The guy we had come over suggested I just buy a SATA SSD (Not M.2 form factor), but I'm just not sure if it's an issue with the NVME... So overall, I would really appreciate any sort of troubleshooting suggestions from this community as using this desktop daily without the hassle of having to clean the M.2 everyday is very valuable to me. Thank you in advance! -
Thinking of utilizing AMD's StoreMI on my B450 board, but wondering whetherornot it's better/safer to get a second 250Gb+ SSD to use it with my game drive, as I heard people Windows won't even start properly.
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Hello Yesterday I upgraded my cpu from a 2600x to a 3700x. I installed all the bios and everything seem fine until I rebooted my computer. It says it cant find the boot drive even though is reading that my ssd is in there. And every time I boot up the pc it resets everything, if i try overclocking it resets it, if I press f12 in the start I can but up the system by choosing a blank option instead of ssd or hdd. Please help. Specs Aorus b450 pro wifi 3700x 5700xt 16 gb 3600 mghz 550 psu 250 evo ssd 1 tb barracuda hdd
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Hi I have just built my first PC and I have run into an issue where my NVME SSD, SATA SSD, and boot media an a usb drive are being seen my the BIOS but it will not list them as bootable drives. I have tried a new cable for the SATA drive and I tried reinstalling the NVME drive but am still having the same issue. I am a bit of a loss as to what the next possible steps are to troubleshoot this are. I have very little knowledge about working and troubleshooting in a BIOS so any inshight or help would be much appreciated. I am using a ROG B550 gaming-f motherboard with a Ryzen 5600x. The SSDs are both new one is a Intel 665p and the other is just a generic 120Gb Kingston Drive. Thanks
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Hey. just wanted to ask a quick question: what's the best way to change the boot drive you are using? In this case I am going from a Western Digital Blue 250GB SATA M.2 to a Corsair MP600 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 drive, and obviously I want to boot from the faster drive. I should also state that I am going to be upgrading from a Ryzen 2600X to a (probably) Ryzen 5600 and from a Asus Prime B350-Plus to a Asus TUF X570.
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Ive had my desktop for about 4 years and it goes through a upgrade every now and then but from the beginning its had 2 drives. A wd black hdd and samsung 850 evo as my boot and main programs drive. Ive recently been able to snag a wd black nvme drive on a good sale and i have been needing extra storage for a while for games and content creation. Im wondering if there is a special config that i can use to get the most efficient use out of my 3 drives. As second question im also wondering if its smart decision to move my os to the nvme as well.
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My ASUS x570-Plus has two Gen 4 PCIe M.2 slots. Installed Win11 when I only had 1 SSD & it was in Slot 1 (x4 to CPU). I later added a Gen 4 cache/scratch SSD in Slot 2, forgetting that its x4 goes through the chipset, so its performance is theoretically choked a little bit by the shared lanes. This weekend at PAX, I was talking to ASUS and they said that I should've installed the boot SSD alone in M.2 Slot 2 and installed the OS. Then, I could add the faster scratch SSD in M.2 Slot 1 to have optimal performance for both drives (since the boot SSD is Gen 3 and having it share lanes is less of a deal). I don't have to have the boot SSD in the first slot. NOW, THE QUESTION... Instead of purging both drives and redoing all of the software installation, can I just swap the two M.2 drives? Obviously, there's no OS on the scratch SSD. Will windows just go check Slot 2 to boot? Also, will this confuse or screw up Windows 11 Disk Management (drive letters, etc)?
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I set up a windows 10 boot drive in pop os using the inbuilt disk image mounter and copied the files onto the usb (as directed in a yt tutorial) but whenever I try to use it (clicking del button continuously when power on the laptop) a different interface pop up... Usually it was a light themed ui but this time it's just like this below, the windows bootdrive isn't getting detected (no issues with the usb I checked it)... Any solutions?
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Hi Guys, any thoughts on the Geil Zenith R3 ? Wondering if it's okay based on your experiences. CHeers!
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I recently installed a Samsung 970 Evo into my laptop with the intention of using it a boot drive to house my OS and a few other small things while retaining the 1TB HDD that the laptop came with for mass storage. The SSD initialized correctly and I was able to clone the HDD onto my SSD which now show up as Disk 1 (Windows C:) and Disk 0 (Windows E:) respectively however the SSD does not show up in the BIOS as an option to boot from and I cant make it the boot partition in disk manager. How do I get it to boot from the SSD? (Please note: The laptop is quite difficult to open so any solution that does not require disconnecting the HDD would be highly preferable.)
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When I installed windows I accidentally didn't put it in UEFI mode and did not notice for a while, I was just having problems booting the drive by default and have been having to manually, now that I have realized it, it is too late to do a fresh windows install so I am trying to use the mbr2gpt tool. my OS is on a 250gb Samsung 970Evo, which is identified as my disk 2, I ran; mbr2gpt.exe /convert /disk:2 /allowfullos But even though that is the disk which has my OS I get the error; Here is my drive layout; How do I get past this error and convert it so I can use UEFI?
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When I installed windows I accidentally didn't put it in UEFI mode and did not notice for a while, I was just having problems booting the drive by default and have been having to manually, now that I have realized it, it is too late to do a fresh windows install so I am trying to use the mbr2gpt tool. my OS is on a 250gb Samsung 970Evo, which is identified as my disk 2, I ran; mbr2gpt.exe /convert /disk:2 /allowfullos But even though that is the disk which has my OS I get the error; Here is my drive layout; How do I get past this error and convert it so I can use UEFI?
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Im trying to set up a need boot drive on my pc i have a new ssd with a fresh windows 10 install that i can boot from and i can see my other drives but im not sure how to access my stuff or inport my desktop.
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Hi, I've been recently running low on space on my boot C:\ SSD so I decided to buy a new one. I bought a 1TB SSD from Samsung and cloned the original boot drive onto it using Macrium Reflect. So I restarted the PC, went to BIOS, and manually booted from the new SSD which worked. (But the new drive was still labeled as E:\, and the original drive was still C:\) So I turned off the PC, removed the original SSD and tried to boot but an error occured: 0xc0000e Does anyone know how to fix this? (I can still boot from the original SSD if I plug it in) Original SSD: Intel SSD 535 Series 120Gb New SSD: Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
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So I am a new 13 year old pc builder that is well building his first pc. For storage I ended up buying a 240gb ssd and and a 1tb barracuda HDD. 1) I would like if someone could tell me how to set it as the boot drive and how to set the hdd as the data drive. 2) I would like to know if there was any way to partition the boot drive so I could dual boot Linux and do and nfts partition on the hdd to create seamless file transfer but not easy my ssd storage. Thanks in advance
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Samsung 970 evo plus will be my pick for nvme m.2 ssd can i install my game's as well as Window's 10 on it, or better i go for 240gb ssd boot drive, or can i just do partition like 200gb for os and rest for gaming and stuff
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Hello! I have had some weird issues with my computer lately, I believe it could've been a power surge (I have an EVGA 500W 80plus) since my monitor suffered a weird color flickering and couldn't get my PC to boot. Piece by piece I started discarding issues and I got to the WD HDD which was responsible for the system not booting. I immediately removed it and tried to use an external 3.5 SATA enclosure to try to recover the data and this is where my post really begins. The drive shows up in Disk Manager, however, it appears as unallocated space and not initialized. As I try to initialize it says it's write protected. In this state I have tried to run Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows which approves all test on the hard drive but immediately says "Too many bad sectors" when checking the data. I have tried to initialize the drive with ThumbScrew and manually insterting the DWORD value in regedit to try to change the readonly attribute with no effect. I have also tried to use DiskPart to clear this readonly attribute but it fails with no more information. Recuva is useless since the drive has to already have a volume (such as C: or D:, which it doesn't, I have tried looking for the volume in DiskPart but it's not there, only the disk shows any information) EaseUS recovery doesn't let me hit "Proceed" even though it has a "Search in Unallocated Space" option, it asks me to give it a partition, which is not there. Scanning for files just gives me 0 files on LostPartition-RAW. I have tried HDDRegenerator but when I try to fix the bad sectors it just tells me the drive must be installed internally, which I can't do because I'm on a Mac at the moment and soon I'll be getting an SSD for my PC and then try that option. TL:DR: I have an HDD with unallocated space, a hell of a lot of bad sectors, not initialized and write protected. Anything else I should try? Where I'm from it will not only be expensive, but hard to find a trustworthy data recovery centre. I will miss this data, but it's not the end of the world for me, apart from party footage with family and friends, graphic animations I have designed and just quitting Fallout 4 and Skyrim since I will never go back without my savegames. Specially Fallout since, well, 76 is sht. Thanks a lot and I hope I'm doing something wrong or there's a way around the issue
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I am looking to boot my newly built pc with the ssd from my old build. It already has windows installed and stuff on it that wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost but would prefer not to. Will booting from it wipe it's current data, and would I be able to reactivate my already installed windows, or would I have to reinstall. I plan on installing a fresh copy once my system is up and running anyway, I only mean for booting.
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Hey guys, i tryied to make a Windows 7 boot usb but it didnt work. Then i watched some YouTube tutorials did erverything as they said but it didnt work either. Éverytime i try to boot i get no bootable drive found i dont know what to do can someone help me. All the data that Comes from unzipping the iso file is on the usb. Iam very new to Building PCs i hope u guyss can hepl me.
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Hey there helpful forums, I need help with my PC. So recently my Gigabyte board had died so I thought why not upgrade and picked up an Asus ROG B550 F board. I chucked my trusty M.2 NVME boot drive hoping for the best but nope, the system boots straight into the BIOS. It can't see the drive. It can see my other drives though. Has anyone experienced this, has a solution? Save me? Cheers guys!
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after updating the bios on a motherboard with a usb will it automatically revert to the old boot drive or do i manually have to change it back? Just wondering because I'm not sure and don't want to take out the USB if it is still booting from there.
