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sheetka

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I just flashed my Gigabyte GA-B150-HD3P mobo using the OS utility and it looked like everything went ok, in fact I am normally using my pc now and it says it succesfully upgraded.
However, the first time it started it gave me an error to select a proper boot device. I went into the bios and found out that I have two boot options that both involve my SSD drive. I cannot boot the OS using the P5 one and had to switch them around.

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Did I do something wrong? How can I solve this?
 
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Barty1884
That's exactly what it should be. You want the boot manager (on the 850 EVO) as priority #1.

Your BIOS sees the secondary partition on the SSD as an option to boot from (as it's another 'drive' from the BIOS perspective), but it's not bootable.

Exactly what's shown in your image is totally normal, and correct. There's nothing to "solve"
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That's exactly what it should be. You want the boot manager (on the 850 EVO) as priority #1.

Your BIOS sees the secondary partition on the SSD as an option to boot from (as it's another 'drive' from the BIOS perspective), but it's not bootable.

Exactly what's shown in your image is totally normal, and correct. There's nothing to "solve"
 
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Hello... It is typical to have to set your 'BOOT" order and preferences when you update or reset your BIO's... typically you want your "Boot" drive plugged into the first SATA connector (SATA0 or SATA1)... for "default" operation/booting.

Place the DATA drives in (SATA2 or SATA3)... or you can "custom set" the order and save&exit, so it is normal for the BIO's to ask you how you want to AND what order you would like to use them... on the First boot after a CMOS clear or BIO's update. B )

 
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Oh thank god. Is this a result of the new bios?

Which of the 2 other partitions does he think it is then?

edit: http://imgur.com/a/Wq5BV
 
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No, it should've always been like that. It may just be in a more prominent location now, or defaulted correctly previously and the updated BIOS cjhanged that.

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That's what your SSD actually looks like (well, the leftmost 3 anyway). While as far as you're concerned, when you installed Windows, you have 1 partition.....in actuality, you have those small partitions which are for boot (+more, keeping it simplistic). You cant make them appear as additional storage areas etc, as they're OS critical & (somewhat) protected, but they are there.

Your BIOS still sees it though - so what it's seeing is
#1 - Windows Boot Mgr (the 'partition' on the left) - Required to boot in and access 'C'/
#2 - Your 'C' drive.... the only partition you thought you had. Not bootable, in & of itself.

It's nothing to worry about, it's normal..

If you want to boot from that drive, then boot manager is what you're actually booting from.
The fact it's (somewhat) separate is why you can end up with a corrupt (or missing) boot manager and repair it with no impact to your data/programs held in the 'C' partition.

 
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That makes sense. Though I didnt have this the first time when I build this pc, hence I was a bit confused
 
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I understand it now. Do you mind me asking what those 2 recovery partitions on the right are and there are 3 of them in that picture?
 
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A poorly configured drive :lol:

I just grabbed that from the 'net.
One option would be it's simply partitions/formating/general configuration gone wrong and the drive owner hasn't bothered to fix.
OR
Dual OS. There may be a further partitions which hold boot instructions for another OS*



*In this case, it's a 60GB SSD with ~49GB for the C partition, so it's not going to be a dualOS situation, but if it were, it could look similar to that + more partitions.
 
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Hello... in a "clean install" of WIN 7... you would have just the small E:\ partition and the Large C :\ partition... so I don't know what is normal for WIN10 yet... B /

1) What was you install method/order with this OS and drive?
2) Was this a NEW drive or a Previous OS version Update/install on a re-used drive?
 
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It was a brand new ssd drive and I'm pretty sure I made a bootable external hard drive with windows 10 on it and installed it using default settings.
 
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Hello... The BOOtable procedure/files using the "Same Drive?" could be those other areas... if you would have used a USB stick it's possible those areas would not have been created or left there B /

I suspect they are the original "New" "install" files then... since the one partition is 8gb in size (needed for Win10)... and the other is the "DOS" bootable information.

It might be possible to delete those partitions... BUT like I said I'm not a WIN10 user at this time... and you could google a screen shot of a "Normal" USB install of WIN10... to verify my Theory B )

I don't want to give "BAD" advice here and screw up your 'working" OS and file/partition system. B D ...Just a possible "logical" reason for it.
 
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