boot error My new SSD won't boot

[cyanit]

Hello LTT community,

 

today my new SSD arrived.

My plan was to install W10 on it, claiming the old Windows and transfer the important stuff, then delete all partions of the HDD and make one NTFS partition for data.

So I plugged it in correcly, booted from my prepared USB stick, unplugged the onther drives and installed windows 10 and my needed programms on it.

So far so great.

Plugging in the old HDD for transferring my Data and rebooted (no hot plug enabled).
But when I rebooted, it booted ALWAYS to the old W10 on my HDD.
So, logically I just unplugged it again and restarted the PC to see if that was the problem.
But now I get an error: “No boot drive detected. Please plug in a boot drive and press any key.“

But since the SSD is shown in the Windows Installer, I know its plugged in and working!

Even the Installation worked flawlessly!

The SSD is even shown in the Bootmenu, but when I try booting from it, it's not working.

 

So what the heck is going on?!? 

 

I did everything (to my knowledge) right:
- unplugged the old HDD so its boot manager won't interfear with the new SSD
- booted the USB-Key in UEFI mode
- Set the bootorder correctly
- Windows 10 even worked

 

Config:
- ASRock Z97 Pro 4 Mainboard
- Crucial MX500 SSD (New, Windows 10 Pro)
- 2TB Seagate HDD (old, Windows 10 Pro)

 

The MX500 is on Sata lll-port 3, (in UEFI registered as SATA 3 SSD) but I took an old Sata cable, don't know if it's Sata3.

The HDD is on Sata lll-port 2, (in UEFI registered as SATA 3 HDD) and is working correctly.

(DvD is on port 1)

 

Boot order:
1. DvD
2. MX500
3. All below are deactivated.

 

But after a restart with my HDD attached it always changes to:
1. Windows Boot Manager
2. DvD
3. HDD
4. All below are deactivated

[Enderman]

After plugging in the HDD can you enter bios and change the boor priority list so that only the SSD is on it?

[cyanit]

yes, I did that too. But then I get the "No boot device [...]" error again, so in the end its the same result.

Pretty strange....

[joshuawi99]

Reinstall windows again

[cyanit]

42 minutes ago, joshuawi99 said:

Reinstall windows again

Thanks for the advice, already did it twice.

And yes I did turn it off and on again.

 

This is so fn hilarious, I did all the common things bit it still doesn't work.

 

The most strange thing is that the Installation actually worked. I've set up windows, there has to be a way roo boot to the SSD without having to reinstall everything.

[joshuawi99]

Maybe it gets confused by plugging in ur old HDD. What happens if you do not Plug in your old HDD after the installation?

[cyanit]

1 hour ago, joshuawi99 said:

Maybe it gets confused by plugging in ur old HDD. What happens if you do not Plug in your old HDD after the installation?

in my first run I forgot to plug the HDD back in, so no, that dosnt work either

[Danielx64]

Maybe your computer is expecting that USB drive plugged into your computer to boot correctly?

[cyanit]

Today I came home from school and ran through everything again, just got the error, old windows or windows installer.

Then I had an idea:

I unplugged the power cable of my PC, I unplugged everything from the mainboard that could be booted from and turned on my pc.

UEFI came up, no boot order (hence the missing devices). I also turned on "Hot-Plug" on SATA port 2 and exited WITH saving.

Then I plugged in the SSD into SATA-port 1 (because I red somewhere else that port 1 & 2 are directly connected to the CPU and that this can make a difference) and turned on the PC.

And it worked.

 

Plugged in my HDD, but its not recognized on my "new" windows. Now im gonna make a bootable USB with Linux and solve it from there.

Thanks for the suggestions, but I forgot to do what would be the first thing: eliminate all variables and reset everything on a low level.

Booting from the SSD first didn´t work, so why not remove the HDD physically....

[JacobFW]

40 minutes ago, cyanit said:

Today I came home from school and ran through everything again, just got the error, old windows or windows installer.

Then I had an idea:

I unplugged the power cable of my PC, I unplugged everything from the mainboard that could be booted from and turned on my pc.

UEFI came up, no boot order (hence the missing devices). I also turned on "Hot-Plug" on SATA port 2 and exited WITH saving.

Then I plugged in the SSD into SATA-port 1 (because I red somewhere else that port 1 & 2 are directly connected to the CPU and that this can make a difference) and turned on the PC.

And it worked.

 

Plugged in my HDD, but its not recognized on my "new" windows. Now im gonna make a bootable USB with Linux and solve it from there.

Thanks for the suggestions, but I forgot to do what would be the first thing: eliminate all variables and reset everything on a low level.

Booting from the SSD first didn´t work, so why not remove the HDD physically....

Check in your boot settings in the BIOS for UEFI boot mode.  Try toggling that and see what happens.

[cyanit]

Just now, JacobFW said:

Check in your boot settings in the BIOS for UEFI boot mode.  Try toggling that and see what happens.

Made a live Solus USB and deleted the boot partition of the "old" HDD. Isn´t perfect, but it works, because ill format and repartition the drive anyway.
And of curse I installed windows via UEFI