After a few tweaks and optimizations in Samsung Magician, I reduced the boot time from 3 minutes to 3 seconds. Now I think everything is solved, halleluja!
So after messing around abit in BIOS (mainly with the boot order) I got a few different results, or should I say different error screens. One of the screens told me "The operating system couldn't be loaded because the kernel is missing or contains errors. File: \Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe"
I...
1. I have partitioned my disk as MBR already. So that's not an issue.
2. Its a clean install, have moved all files I wanna save to an external drive.
3. When I have installed windows and let the pc restart, it sends me back to the beginning of the installation process if I leave the USB in.
If...
UPDATE:
After googling what UEFI means, I figured I'll need to set "UEFI Hard Disk" as #1 in the boot order, that it'll wake up the disk before booting from the disk.
Now when I'm trying to boot, instead I end up in Windows Boot Manager.
Don't know how to proceed from here.
UPDATE:
Turns out I had done something wrong when updating BIOS, so that it didn't update successfully.
Managed to update it correctly, and FINALLY i can see my disk in BIOS!!
BUT as usual, I bump into the next problem..
I installed Windows again, and got the pc to boot from the SSD. It goes...
I cleaned the SSD in cmd, initialized it again as MBR, kept it unallocated and managed to install Windows 10 again.
Unplugged all sata cables except the SSD, but when i try to boot all I get is a black screen with some text. something about not finding map...
entered BIOS, and the boot list is...
Hi. I bought a new SSD (Samsung 850 evo, 250gb) a week ago and i've been trying to get it to work. My goal is to install Windows on it, and maybe the game i play the most, and use my 1tb HDD as the main storage drive.
At first I had problems where Windows wouldn't install on it, because it was...