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Hey all, I just built my first PC. Unfortunately, my happiness has been marred by an issue I’ve been having with my ssd. I know for a fact that the issue is my ssd as I was able to boot into windows from a Laptop hdd I had laying around, though for reason that will take too long to explain I cannot continue to use that drive. I keep getting the REBOOT AND SELECT PROPER BOOT DEVICE error. I have used the media creation tool via a 16gb usb stick with both the usb option and the iso option via Rufus, with a wipe between those two. I’ve tried installing windows about 4 times now. Each install was successful, yet failed to boot. I did a wipe and reformat after each failed boot. My ssd is a Crucial BX500 1tb. Neither Crucial nor Microsoft could help me with this issue after contacting them. I then tried making a system image of the laptop hdd and restoring that via the media creation tool. The recovery was successful, yet it still failed to boot into windows. The weirdest part is that I can read and write to the ssd perfectly fine when it is connected to my laptop or while I’m in windows via the hdd. At this point, I don’t care what the solution is, I just want to know what to do to get into windows, I am beyond pissed and just want this to work as it should be working. Any help is appreciated.
 

another thing, i accidentally threw out the packaging so I cannot return it. I was under the impression that is was a formatting issue earlier as it was in MBR instead of GPT which prevented windows from being installed to it, but following a clean and reformat in diskpart, it turned out to have another issue that I cannot seem to place.

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Hi there, you did a successful windows install but failed to boot into windows? is there some error on the screen upon booting or?

Also please share your PC specs and do you have a BOOT led on your MOBO to tell you in what process your boot is in. 

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It's possible it's a Legacy vs. UEFI issue. I know on my motherboard's BIOS, anything that wasn't UEFI booting was disabled, so when I moved my old windows install over when I built the computer, I had to enable Legacy (non-UEFI) booting, then convert the hard drive to use UEFI and set it back to UEFI only.

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21 minutes ago, Kadzo said:

Hi there, you did a successful windows install but failed to boot into windows? is there some error on the screen upon booting or?

Also please share your PC specs and do you have a BOOT led on your MOBO to tell you in what process your boot is in. 

Not sure about the LED. And yes, the install was successful, but it failed to boot into windows. It instead went to a screen that said reboot and select proper boot device

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23 minutes ago, Kadzo said:

Hi there, you did a successful windows install but failed to boot into windows? is there some error on the screen upon booting or?

Also please share your PC specs and do you have a BOOT led on your MOBO to tell you in what process your boot is in. 

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Cpu- Ryzen 5 3400g

Mobo- Gigabyte B450M ds3h V2

16gb Silicon Power ram

Ssd- Crucial BX500 1tb

Psu- EVGA 600ba

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Just a guess, and likely you checked that part already. But in your BIOS is your SSD the main boot device? Since when installing Windows you boot off the USB as main boot device?

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2 hours ago, Mikekadz said:

Specs

Cpu- Ryzen 5 3400g

Mobo- Gigabyte B450M ds3h V2

16gb Silicon Power ram

Ssd- Crucial BX500 1tb

Psu- EVGA 600ba

I don`t see that you have a LED bios so we can`t know in what part of the boot is in. 

 

1 hour ago, Wayupthere said:

Just a guess, and likely you checked that part already. But in your BIOS is your SSD the main boot device? Since when installing Windows you boot off the USB as main boot device?

This would be my second choice, so make sure that this is set up correctly. and we will see from there whats next

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5 hours ago, Kadzo said:

I don`t see that you have a LED bios so we can`t know in what part of the boot is in. 

 

This would be my second choice, so make sure that this is set up correctly. and we will see from there whats next

Yes, i set the boot priority to the ssd

 

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10 hours ago, Mikekadz said:

Hey all, I just built my first PC. Unfortunately, my happiness has been marred by an issue I’ve been having with my ssd. I know for a fact that the issue is my ssd as I was able to boot into windows from a Laptop hdd I had laying around, though for reason that will take too long to explain I cannot continue to use that drive. I keep getting the REBOOT AND SELECT PROPER BOOT DEVICE error. I have used the media creation tool via a 16gb usb stick with both the usb option and the iso option via Rufus, with a wipe between those two. I’ve tried installing windows about 4 times now. Each install was successful, yet failed to boot. I did a wipe and reformat after each failed boot. My ssd is a Crucial BX500 1tb. Neither Crucial nor Microsoft could help me with this issue after contacting them. I then tried making a system image of the laptop hdd and restoring that via the media creation tool. The recovery was successful, yet it still failed to boot into windows. The weirdest part is that I can read and write to the ssd perfectly fine when it is connected to my laptop or while I’m in windows via the hdd. At this point, I don’t care what the solution is, I just want to know what to do to get into windows, I am beyond pissed and just want this to work as it should be working. Any help is appreciated.
 

another thing, i accidentally threw out the packaging so I cannot return it. I was under the impression that is was a formatting issue earlier as it was in MBR instead of GPT which prevented windows from being installed to it, but following a clean and reformat in diskpart, it turned out to have another issue that I cannot seem to place.

Download the Windows ISO, put it on another USB Device with ETCHER, then try it again...

 

Can you boot from the Laptop HDD on your PC???

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1 hour ago, PhilAstisxh said:

Download the Windows ISO, put it on another USB Device with ETCHER, then try it again...

 

Can you boot from the Laptop HDD on your PC???

Yes I can. I’ve also already tried the iso with RUFUS, did not work. At this point I’m thinking it’s a hardware level issue

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42 minutes ago, Mikekadz said:

Yes I can. I’ve also already tried the iso with RUFUS, did not work. At this point I’m thinking it’s a hardware level issue

well, you dont have to use it but try Linux, Proxmox or something else, if you can boot from your hdd, then I think its not a hardware issue on your PC... Have you already tried, to install Win on you r Laptop, and put the SSD in your PC afterwards???

idk. but its worth a try I guess, if you can install Win on your Laptop, you know that the SSD is not broken

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Have you tried to reset your bios settings? Take out the CMOS, revert everything to default..is your BIOS current?

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On 6/1/2021 at 1:04 AM, Mikekadz said:

Hey all, I just built my first PC. Unfortunately, my happiness has been marred by an issue I’ve been having with my ssd. I know for a fact that the issue is my ssd as I was able to boot into windows from a Laptop hdd I had laying around, though for reason that will take too long to explain I cannot continue to use that drive. I keep getting the REBOOT AND SELECT PROPER BOOT DEVICE error. I have used the media creation tool via a 16gb usb stick with both the usb option and the iso option via Rufus, with a wipe between those two. I’ve tried installing windows about 4 times now. Each install was successful, yet failed to boot. I did a wipe and reformat after each failed boot. My ssd is a Crucial BX500 1tb. Neither Crucial nor Microsoft could help me with this issue after contacting them. I then tried making a system image of the laptop hdd and restoring that via the media creation tool. The recovery was successful, yet it still failed to boot into windows. The weirdest part is that I can read and write to the ssd perfectly fine when it is connected to my laptop or while I’m in windows via the hdd. At this point, I don’t care what the solution is, I just want to know what to do to get into windows, I am beyond pissed and just want this to work as it should be working. Any help is appreciated.
 

another thing, i accidentally threw out the packaging so I cannot return it. I was under the impression that is was a formatting issue earlier as it was in MBR instead of GPT which prevented windows from being installed to it, but following a clean and reformat in diskpart, it turned out to have another issue that I cannot seem to place.

Problem solved, it seemed to be hardware related. Something with the boot sector. I plugged in a new SSD and it worked. The old one as well works, just can't use that one for Windows

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