HELP: NO OS DETECTED!

[itchkowb]

I've had my computer since mid October, and it's been working like a peach. I decided to install visual studio, so I could make some programs for my linux box. It had finished its install and prompted me to restart. I did so as there was no reason I shouldn't, no unsaved work or anything of that nature. When my system was booting back up, however, it wasn't. I had a freshly formatted USB stick, my 2 scratch drives, and my m.2 ssd all connected. After the bios splash page, I was told to remove any media without an OS, so I unplugged the flash drive. When I got the same message, I also unplugged the 2 hdds, and now, here I am, with just the m.2 drive connected still not able to boot into windows. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

[tarfeef101]

can you boot to BIOS with all the drives (in theory) connected, and see if they show up there?

[1000donny]

Try re-seating your M.2 drive.

[jake765111]

10 minutes ago, itchkowb said:

I've had my computer since mid October, and it's been working like a peach. I decided to install visual studio, so I could make some programs for my linux box. It had finished its install and prompted me to restart. I did so as there was no reason I shouldn't, no unsaved work or anything of that nature. When my system was booting back up, however, it wasn't. I had a freshly formatted USB stick, my 2 scratch drives, and my m.2 ssd all connected. After the bios splash page, I was told to remove any media without an OS, so I unplugged the flash drive. When I got the same message, I also unplugged the 2 hdds, and now, here I am, with just the m.2 drive connected still not able to boot into windows. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Is it a Mac running bootcamp (Windows)?

[itchkowb]

11 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

can you boot to BIOS with all the drives (in theory) connected, and see if they show up there?

yea, they're all there when they were pluggen in, and the m.2 is still seen

[itchkowb]

2 minutes ago, jake765111 said:

Is it a Mac running bootcamp (Windows)?

no, its just windows.

[tarfeef101]

1 minute ago, itchkowb said:

yea, they're all there when they were pluggen in, and the m.2 is still seen

okay... that's not very fun. if you have your windows installation disc/usb, plug that in, boot to that, and then go through the setup process until it asks for a target drive. then we can get it to tell us what your drives appear to contain

[itchkowb]

1 minute ago, tarfeef101 said:

okay... that's not very fun. if you have your windows installation disc/usb, plug that in, boot to that, and then go through the setup process until it asks for a target drive. then we can get it to tell us what your drives appear to contain

ok... i think i still have it, let me look.

[itchkowb]

@tarfeef101, i have good news and bad news. Bad news: cant find the windows USB, Good news: I have another computer with a fresh copy of windows that I wouldn't mind sparing.

[itchkowb]

would running linux live off another usb let us see the contents?

 

[tarfeef101]

1 minute ago, itchkowb said:

would running linux live off another usb let us see the contents?

 

yeah, anything where you can boot and look at your drives would suffice

[itchkowb]

12 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

yeah, anything where you can boot and look at your drives would suffice

ok... i also re seated my ssd, that didn't work. ill mount mint to a usb right away.

 

[itchkowb]

UPDATE: i mounted ubuntu to a usb via etcher, and went to boot from it, yet the same error message

[tarfeef101]

3 hours ago, itchkowb said:

UPDATE: i mounted ubuntu to a usb via etcher, and went to boot from it, yet the same error message

interesting... and that (hopefully live) version of ubuntu works on another machine? if so, then the good ol' clear CMOS and reset the board is probably your next step

[itchkowb]

12 hours ago, tarfeef101 said:

interesting... and that (hopefully live) version of ubuntu works on another machine? if so, then the good ol' clear CMOS and reset the board is probably your next step

Will do... also I found the windows usb install media... and same message. Going to Microsoft today and I will make sure to CMOS reset when I get back 

[itchkowb]

On 1/5/2019 at 11:47 PM, tarfeef101 said:

interesting... and that (hopefully live) version of ubuntu works on another machine? if so, then the good ol' clear CMOS and reset the board is probably your next step

called up MSI (i have their mobo), and they told me to enable some things in my bios, which got me to the windows 10 drive. i set up an appt with microsoft for the 9th. and im researching how toclear my cmos

[itchkowb]

1 hour ago, itchkowb said:

called up MSI (i have their mobo), and they told me to enable some things in my bios, which got me to the windows 10 drive. i set up an appt with microsoft for the 9th. and im researching how toclear my cmos

Cleared the cmos, no dice.... same ol error message. 

[itchkowb]

So final update, my computer is up and running, the i just need to reinstall my programs. And this wouldn't have happened with out Pavan the Level 2 Technician at Microsoft, so big shout out to him.