Windows 10 Won't boot without second ssd installed.

[tt2468]

Hey there!

I have been testing an NVMe pcie ssd that the company I work for has been developing. They need the prototype back, but when I remove the thing from my computer and boot it back up, no spinning dots. The logo appears, but it halts on startup. I have deleted every partition, and even made the device offline, but nothing works. Any suggestions? Here is a screenshot: https://gyazo.com/f093f9ace44f15327712e9abd3f97cfc In the making of my screenshot, I found that the disk was set to gpt. I changed it to mbr. Did I just solve my own issue?

 

EDIT: I'm really dumb. I just needed to restart the computer another time without the drive to get it to boot lol

[Arc_Jester]

I think you might have since MBR uses the regular BIOS partition table while GPT uses UEFI.

[tt2468]

3 minutes ago, Arc_Jester said:

I think you might have since MBR uses the regular BIOS partition table while GPT uses UEFI.

Nah, I fixed it. It seems that when I shut down the computer, pull the drive out, then boot it back up, it doesn't know what to do about it, so it just doesn't boot. But when I force shut down the computer, then boot it again, it forgets that it is missing a drive, and boots normally.

[Arc_Jester]

1 minute ago, tt2468 said:

Nah, I fixed it. It seems that when I shut down the computer, pull the drive out, then boot it back up, it doesn't know what to do about it, so it just doesn't boot. But when I force shut down the computer, then boot it again, it forgets that it is missing a drive, and boots normally.

Oh ok, glad you got it fixed.