My pc/server doesn't detect boot drives

[Louiespitfire]

I've been using an old pc ad a minecraft server on and off for the past 3years the pc contains an a10-6700 apu 16gb of ddr3 ram and a gt620 (all the parts are from an old prebuilt the acer tc-130). (I'm gonna call it a server for a large part of this even tho technically it is just a regular desktop)

 

The pc has been working for the last 3yrs, as the nature as a second older pc I've cycled alot of components in and out including multiple harddrives and os (windows 8.1 , windows 10, 11(even tho it's unsupported I goy it working) and ubuntu server) 

 

The server was working last week when I decided to switch out the mechanical harddtive into my main pc to speed up chunk loading, the drive ended up dying a day in probably unrelated but gor detail. So I decided to use my 500gb crucial sata ssd to have the minecraft server on with ubuntu server as the os (same as the harddrive) point is i finish rendering the world and went to put the ssd into the server and was met with a reboot or insert proper boot media. Since I've attempted to use 4 different drives a harddrive with Windows 11 on a harddrive with ubuntu server on and my ssd i plan to use with ubuntu server and even tried to use a blank drive and install ubuntu server onto it with boot media which worked whilst installing but after restarting as part of the install process (the part when removing the usb stick) it can't detect a boot device.

 

Since I've tried 5 different ram sticks, a range of different sata cables. I've some what attempted tk change bios settings but have a limited knowledge do a fix to the issue is likely to be seated there if there is one. The only other thing I could suspect is the powersupply howrver the harddrives spin to life on power on so this doesn't seem to be an issue any input is appreciated there's 2 links showing below. (Don't judge me for being on carpet and using motherboard boxes to keep of it ik it's risky but I don't rlly have many other option available at the momment)

Boot without keyboard:

https://youtube.com/shorts/LdTeL4OqOGM?si=-YN1-Oj4UObUbapt

Bios and boot with keyboard:

https://youtu.be/zn2lzjh9ZkY?si=9L89AV98_yAI7V8n

[Louiespitfire]

* minecraft

 

Tho on a side note mindcraft should be the official name for promoting a pawn to another piece in chess

[LloydLynx]

There's the old school "BIOS boot sector" way of booting, and the new school "UEFI boot partition" way of booting. Likely the drives that the server won't boot from are UEFI and the server is BIOS capable only.

[Louiespitfire]

1 hour ago, LloydLynx said:

There's the old school "BIOS boot sector" way of booting, and the new school "UEFI boot partition" way of booting. Likely the drives that the server won't boot from are UEFI and the server is BIOS capable only.

The only thing is that I've actively used it with Linux server as recently as a week ago and with Windows 11 (granted very jankily) abt 6months ago across the same few drives

[Louiespitfire]

5 hours ago, Louiespitfire said:

I've been using an old pc ad a minecraft server on and off for the past 3years the pc contains an a10-6700 apu 16gb of ddr3 ram and a gt620 (all the parts are from an old prebuilt the acer tc-130). (I'm gonna call it a server for a large part of this even tho technically it is just a regular desktop)

 

The pc has been working for the last 3yrs, as the nature as a second older pc I've cycled alot of components in and out including multiple harddrives and os (windows 8.1 , windows 10, 11(even tho it's unsupported I goy it working) and ubuntu server) 

 

The server was working last week when I decided to switch out the mechanical harddtive into my main pc to speed up chunk loading, the drive ended up dying a day in probably unrelated but gor detail. So I decided to use my 500gb crucial sata ssd to have the minecraft server on with ubuntu server as the os (same as the harddrive) point is i finish rendering the world and went to put the ssd into the server and was met with a reboot or insert proper boot media. Since I've attempted to use 4 different drives a harddrive with Windows 11 on a harddrive with ubuntu server on and my ssd i plan to use with ubuntu server and even tried to use a blank drive and install ubuntu server onto it with boot media which worked whilst installing but after restarting as part of the install process (the part when removing the usb stick) it can't detect a boot device.

 

Since I've tried 5 different ram sticks, a range of different sata cables. I've some what attempted tk change bios settings but have a limited knowledge do a fix to the issue is likely to be seated there if there is one. The only other thing I could suspect is the powersupply howrver the harddrives spin to life on power on so this doesn't seem to be an issue any input is appreciated there's 2 links showing below. (Don't judge me for being on carpet and using motherboard boxes to keep of it ik it's risky but I don't rlly have many other option available at the momment)

Boot without keyboard:

https://youtube.com/shorts/LdTeL4OqOGM?si=-YN1-Oj4UObUbapt

Bios and boot with keyboard:

https://youtu.be/zn2lzjh9ZkY?si=9L89AV98_yAI7V8n

Also for further note the server/pc motherboard doesn't seem to have any damage and all tested drives work in my gaming pc (5600x and gtx 1080, b550m 16gb ram)