SSD not recognized as boot device

[SnowyJr8]

I have an ASUS g751jl I installed a wdblue 256gb ssd it is initialized and recognized by windows I already installed windows on it through an external usb.( changed boot option to usb then did normal process however I am not tech savvy I may have messed something up so please feel free to ask). It shows up in file explorer but when I open windows boot media it doesn’t show as a bootable option. My uefi doesn’t show it either I tried removing hard drive and leaving ssd but It just took me straight to my uefi. I used the ready post thing before coming here just kinda had given up after a few hours of troubleshooting.

[-rascal-]

9 minutes ago, SnowyJr8 said:

I have an ASUS g751jl I installed a wdblue 256gb ssd it is initialized and recognized by windows I already installed windows on it through an external usb.( changed boot option to usb then did normal process however I am not tech savvy I may have messed something up so please feel free to ask). It shows up in file explorer but when I open windows boot media it doesn’t show as a bootable option. My uefi doesn’t show it either I tried removing hard drive and leaving ssd but It just took me straight to my uefi. I used the ready post thing before coming here just kinda had given up after a few hours of troubleshooting.

 

 

I am assuming your WD 250GB SSD is the what is coming up as  '179GB free of 232 GB'.

You are still booting into Windows from your 1TB HDD, and NOT through the SSD.

This is why you see the SSD as a normal storage device.

 

You need to change boot order (and boot priority) to the SSD in the UEFI BIOS.

 

Make sure the SSD is not set as RAID mode or something.

[SnowyJr8]

I can’t set it as boot in uefi only shows windows boot manager and in that the ssd does not show I tried to configure it and it doesn’t work.

 

[SnowyJr8]

[SnowyJr8]

SATA controller not set as raid set as ahCI or something like that 

[Johnny100000000]

14 minutes ago, SnowyJr8 said:

I have an ASUS g751jl I installed a wdblue 256gb ssd it is initialized and recognized by windows I already installed windows on it through an external usb.( changed boot option to usb then did normal process however I am not tech savvy I may have messed something up so please feel free to ask). It shows up in file explorer but when I open windows boot media it doesn’t show as a bootable option. My uefi doesn’t show it either I tried removing hard drive and leaving ssd but It just took me straight to my uefi. I used the ready post thing before coming here just kinda had given up after a few hours of troubleshooting.

Do windows key + r, then diskmgmt see if the drives shows up there. Also why do you have windows on 2 different drives? You need to format the hdd to use the ssd as the boot drive,hope this helps

 

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4 minutes ago, SnowyJr8 said:

SATA controller not set as raid set as ahCI or something like that 

 

There is an extensive guide on the ASUS ROG forums on how to install Windows 10 "properly"...

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?76993-Guide-How-to-install-windows-8-8-1-10-The-proper-way-(UEFI-based-installation)#post538713

 

• Did you disable CSM?
• When you went to select the boot USB, did you select the UEFI option?

[SnowyJr8]

Look up it does recognize it I posted more screenshots

 

[SnowyJr8]

i disabled csm and ssd doesn’t show up in uefi at all for that matter neither does the HDd it just shows an option called windows boot manager

 

[SnowyJr8]

Installing windows isn’t the problem it’s there I just can’t get the computer to let me select it as a bootable drive event after I Took out hdd and left only the ssd 

[SnowyJr8]

If u look at pictures I’ll see windows is installed

[Johnny100000000]

The problem might be that you have windows on 2 different drives though. I had this problem and I formatted one of the drives and it worked like a charm, my conclusion is it might be a BIOS/mobo problem. 

[Johnny100000000]

4 minutes ago, SnowyJr8 said:

If u look at pictures I’ll see windows is installed

Did you check diskmgmt? Did u allocate the drive?

[-rascal-]

13 minutes ago, SnowyJr8 said:

i disabled csm and ssd doesn’t show up in uefi at all for that matter neither does the HDd it just shows an option called windows boot manager

 

 

I'm saying when you were installing Windows on the SSD, did you disable CSM BEFORE going through the install process?

 

Your laptop is seeing the HDD as the boot drive, and the SSD as an ordinary storage drive, when it is booting from the Windows 10 image on the HDD.

[SnowyJr8]

I’ll check up on what u guys mentioned today and check back tommorrow.

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53 minutes ago, SnowyJr8 said:

I’ll check up on what u guys mentioned today and check back tommorrow.

 

The OS drive showing up as 'Windows Boot Manager' is fine / correct.

That is the drive the computer is detecting where the OS is installed on.