Won’t Boot Into Windows

[JewDavid]

So I just upgraded a couple of components in my PC.

motherboard: MSI B550-A Pro

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x

I’m in MSI Click Bios 5 and only changed one thing, the speed of my memory to 3200Mhz.

I got windows installed on my Kingston SSD

[fuzz0r]

What were your specs before?

[JewDavid]

1 minute ago, fuzz0r said:

What were your specs before?

Ryzen 7 2700x

MSI B350 Tomahawk Plus

[fuzz0r]

Just now, JewDavid said:

Ryzen 7 2700x

MSI B350 Tomahawk Plus

Alrighty.

I would still recommend you reinstall windows after changing motherboard + CPU.

Did you change memory as well?

[JewDavid]

1 minute ago, fuzz0r said:

Alrighty.

I would still recommend you reinstall windows after changing motherboard + CPU.

Did you change memory as well?

They memory is still the same. By reinstalling windows would I be losing the files on my drives? I only changed my components once before and I’ve forgotten most of what I did

[fuzz0r]

3 minutes ago, JewDavid said:

They memory is still the same. By reinstalling windows would I be losing the files on my drives? I only changed my components once before and I’ve forgotten most of what I did

Yes, all data on your C: drive will be removed. (Assuming you don't have your C: drive split up into several partitions.)

You could boot up Linux on a USB drive and get your files copied out. (Ubuntu is good for this for example)

 

It's quite simple, you go to the windows download page, and make a USB via Windows Media Creation Tool. - Boot it up and install windows.

[fuzz0r]

Also: BEFORE you format your PC. - What kind of error are you getting while trying to boot into Windows?

[JewDavid]

Just now, fuzz0r said:

Also: BEFORE you format your PC. - What kind of error are you getting while trying to boot into Windows?

I haven’t been seeing an error, that’s why I’m so confused. I disabled the boot logo too since a friend said to look at the post commands, and I couldn’t see anything error related.

[fuzz0r]

19 minutes ago, JewDavid said:

I haven’t been seeing an error, that’s why I’m so confused. I disabled the boot logo too since a friend said to look at the post commands, and I couldn’t see anything error related.

If you enter your BIOS is the hard drive with windows on it, set as boot drive?

[JewDavid]

5 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

If you enter your BIOS is the hard drive with windows on it, set as boot drive?

This is all I see, should I be seeing the specific drive?

[fuzz0r]

14 minutes ago, JewDavid said:

This is all I see, should I be seeing the specific drive?

Not necessarily.

On the 'front page' of your BIOS does it show up there?

 

When your PC is booting, if you press F11, do you get the option to choose your hard drive as a boot option?

[JewDavid]

4 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

Not necessarily.

On the 'front page' of your BIOS does it show up there?

 

When your PC is booting, if you press F11, do you get the option to choose your hard drive as a boot option?

No, just says enter setup

[fuzz0r]

Just now, JewDavid said:

No, just says enter setup

Alright I've got to make sure then:

You made sure to plug in your old hard drive to the new motherboard yes?

Is your BIOS set to UEFI or Legacy?

[JewDavid]

5 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

Alright I've got to make sure then:

You made sure to plug in your old hard drive to the new motherboard yes?

Is your BIOS set to UEFI or Legacy?

UEFI, yeah I think the computer even detects the drive because it says that it did on the first image

[fuzz0r]

3 minutes ago, JewDavid said:

UEFI, yeah I think the computer even detects the drive because it says that it did on the first image

Strange then.

Yes it both does and doesn't, which is weird.

I don't know if you previously had it running in UEFI or Legacy (Or as MSI calls it CSM) mode?

[JewDavid]

3 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

Strange then.

Yes it both does and doesn't, which is weird.

I don't know if you previously had it running in UEFI or Legacy (Or as MSI calls it CSM) mode?

It was also running UEFI previously.

[JewDavid]

4 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

Strange then.

Yes it both does and doesn't, which is weird.

I don't know if you previously had it running in UEFI or Legacy (Or as MSI calls it CSM) mode?

Is there a way I can just fully wipe all drives and just reinstall windows without booting into windows? Sucks tho cause I got my windows key on a txt file on windows

[fuzz0r]

1 minute ago, JewDavid said:

Is there a way I can just fully wipe all drives and just reinstall windows without booting into windows?

If you want to go that route I'd recommend gParted.

2 minutes ago, JewDavid said:

It was also running UEFI previously.

Very strange, then it should be popping up in your list.

It doesn't seem to be fully finding the drive.

 

I would still try startup repair, before a format though.

[fuzz0r]

Also you could boot up something like Ubuntu from a USB drive and get your files out before a format.

[JewDavid]

4 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

Also you could boot up something like Ubuntu from a USB drive and get your files out before a format.

How would I do that? There a video link you could provide me with?

[fuzz0r]

2 minutes ago, JewDavid said:

How would I do that? There a video link you could provide me with?