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I keep getting the select boot drive prompt when I attempt to boot to windows. My boot drive is my ssd which I selected in my bios as my priority boot drive (I have an asrock mb is that helps). I reseted my cmos by removing the battery and shorting the pins to no avail. If anyone has any ideas that would be greatly appreciated. If not I’m just gonna get a new thumb drive and a new copy of windows.

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4 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

Let me get this straight, you reset CMOS after you select boot drive?

Also, did you make sure that you saved the changes you made in BIOS?

I reset the cmos before I selected boot drive. I reset the cmos again after my boot drive wasn’t booting windows. I made sure to save it by pressing save + restart.

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Anything metal/conductive touching the CMOS pins?

I've seen people with this issue.

Also, a fresh windows install won't fix anything, I'd try to update the BIOS instead. Or if it is the latest BIOS, rollback to the previous BIOS.

Occassionaly visits the forum when I have nothing to do at work.

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14 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

Anything metal/conductive touching the CMOS pins?

I've seen people with this issue.

Also, a fresh windows install won't fix anything, I'd try to update the BIOS instead. Or if it is the latest BIOS, rollback to the previous BIOS.

I’m pretty sure my mbr is damaged after I switched it to gpt. 

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5 hours ago, Harmsway1283 said:

Are you getting a “select boot drive” and you have to re-select it in the BIOS, or are getting a windows screen asking you to select the partition volume you want to boot from?

I’m getting the bios message 

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