Boot drives not working

[Tatsurion53]

So I tried to reinstall windows 10 and I kept on getting some blue screens and figured that it was another bug or I needed to update the bios. So I restarted the PC updated the bios and tried to reinstall windows again. When I tried this time. No storage drives would appear. So I searched it up online and it said that it could be a driver's issue. So I tried to install driver's but I couldn't get the system to recognize that their are drivers on the flash drive. I also checked to see if my motherboard driver was detecting the store devices and it turns out yes it can. I also can't do a startup repair or system restore. Please help. I just built this system and things keep getting worse.     My motherboard is a Gigabyte B760 Elite Ax (rev, 1.x)

[Robchil]

8 minutes ago, Tatsurion53 said:

So I tried to reinstall windows 10 and I kept on getting some blue screens and figured that it was another bug or I needed to update the bios. So I restarted the PC updated the bios and tried to reinstall windows again. When I tried this time. No storage drives would appear. So I searched it up online and it said that it could be a driver's issue. So I tried to install driver's but I couldn't get the system to recognize that their are drivers on the flash drive. I also checked to see if my motherboard driver was detecting the store devices and it turns out yes it can. I also can't do a startup repair or system restore. Please help. I just built this system and things keep getting worse.     My motherboard is a Gigabyte B760 Elite Ax (rev, 1.x)

usually i would get the Intel Rapid storage drivers unpack it and put it on the install USB... altho your board also have a intel sata preinstall driver... i would put that unpacked on the install usb too.. 

 

 

[SpookyCitrus]

If it were just M.2 drives I would say there could be a driver issue, but on a consumer Gigabyte desktop motherboard and with a Sata mechanical HDD plugged in and not showing up I'd say something else is going on. Try resetting the CMOS and then trying the installer again. Also, if possible I would remake the install USB. 

 

After the CMOS do not change any bios settings, especially anything to do with Raid or AHCI, if the motherboard is set to Raid your drives may not show up. As for trying to get the drivers themselves to show up in the Windows installer you need to make sure they are in an unpacked folder and you uncheck the hide incompatible drivers checkbox, sometime it hides drivers that are actually compatible. 

[BillBill]

27 minutes ago, Tatsurion53 said:

So I tried to reinstall windows 10 and I kept on getting some blue screens and figured that it was another bug or I needed to update the bios. So I restarted the PC updated the bios and tried to reinstall windows again. When I tried this time. No storage drives would appear. So I searched it up online and it said that it could be a driver's issue. So I tried to install driver's but I couldn't get the system to recognize that their are drivers on the flash drive. I also checked to see if my motherboard driver was detecting the store devices and it turns out yes it can. I also can't do a startup repair or system restore. Please help. I just built this system and things keep getting worse.     My motherboard is a Gigabyte B760 Elite Ax (rev, 1.x)

Try using a USB 2.0 port sometimes a USB 3.0 port won't work for a Windows install. 

[Robchil]

48 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

If it were just M.2 drives I would say there could be a driver issue, but on a consumer Gigabyte desktop motherboard and with a Sata mechanical HDD plugged in and not showing up I'd say something else is going on. Try resetting the CMOS and then trying the installer again. Also, if possible I would remake the install USB. 

 

After the CMOS do not change any bios settings, especially anything to do with Raid or AHCI, if the motherboard is set to Raid your drives may not show up. As for trying to get the drivers themselves to show up in the Windows installer you need to make sure they are in an unpacked folder and you uncheck the hide incompatible drivers checkbox, sometime it hides drivers that are actually compatible. 

he has 1 hdd and 2 m.2 nvme drives..  if any he should change sata to ahci.. 

 

but since he's installing.. i would remove any drive he's NOT going to install to... 

 

[SpookyCitrus]

22 minutes ago, Robchil said:

he has 1 hdd and 2 m.2 nvme drives..  if any he should change sata to ahci.. 

 

but since he's installing.. i would remove any drive he's NOT going to install to... 

 

Huh? Sata is AHCI? There are Raid, AHCI, and IDE(on much older boards) drive options in bios. AHCI is the one that you want it set to. AHCI is the option for Sata drives and M.2s. I don't know what you're referring to in changing it from Sata to AHCI?

 

Also the whole reason I mentioned the Sata drive at all was to explain that if it was a driver issue the Sata drive would still show up, so if not even the Sata drive shows up in the installer something else is going on. Also, no one said anything about removing drives they aren't installing to, once we get to that point then we can explain that, right now we're trying to figure out why drives aren't showing up at all.

[Tatsurion53]

Thanks everyone for your help. I did manage to get a driver to work so the storage drives would appear. It took 6 different drivers to finally get the windows setup to recognize a driver. I manage to get all of my drives to show up. I choose the faster one and now I have windows up and running. Thanks again for all of the help. Still don't know what could of caused this. But all that matters is that it's fixed.