Hard Drive in boot order?

[xXCrossfireXx]

I just built a PC, and I have an MSI Gaming 5 motherboard. It worked, first try, hurray! But the issue now is booting Windows. So my BIOS in the boot order shows my SSD, my USB thumb drive, and my CD drive, but no hard drive. So it must be dead, right? Wrong, it shows the hard drive in the SATA section with the correct serial number, and data amount (5 TB). Is UEFI Hard disk the same thing as the hard drive, or is it different?

My second issue is that my flash drive and a tab called UEFI USB key are both lit up. Which should I put first?

Thanks

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Connect as follows:

SSD = SATA 0 *
HD = SATA 1

DVD = SATA 3

* some MoBos start at 1 so do 1,2 and 4

Boot with just SSD data cable connected
Then connect HD cable and boot again
Then connect DvD cable and boot again

Again USB shud not be routinely connected


Is 5 TD drive formatted as GPT ? Open Disk Maanmger

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

Connect as follows:

SSD = SATA 0 *
HD = SATA 1

DVD = SATA 3

* some MoBos start at 1 so do 1,2 and 4

Boot with just SSD data cable connected
Then connect HD cable and boot again
Then connect DvD cable and boot again

Again USB shud not be routinely connected


Is 5 TD drive formatted as GPT ? Open Disk Maanmger

wait, what??? It shouldn't matter how the drives are connected

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Perhaps, but it does. Windows default scheme for loading drives is lowest SAT # 1st.

1st drive "by number" is usually assigned C:\, next number D:\ and so on. It will continue to read this way until such time as something borks and on reboot it may mix up.... you can **fix** drive letters for example by Changing D:\ to say P:\ and back to D:\ again... from then on , Windows will remember it as D:\.
rneming any lettered drive to something else and then

BTW, can get DVD outta the way by renaming to Z:\ and leaving it there

 

[xXCrossfireXx]

Perhaps, but it does. Windows default scheme for loading drives is lowest SAT # 1st.

1st drive "by number" is usually assigned C:\, next number D:\ and so on. It will continue to read this way until such time as something borks and on reboot it may mix up.... you can **fix** drive letters for example by Changing D:\ to say P:\ and back to D:\ again... from then on , Windows will remember it as D:\.
rneming any lettered drive to something else and then

BTW, can get DVD outta the way by renaming to Z:\ and leaving it there

Still confused about boot order. I have a USB flash drive, an SSD, and a hard drive. My flash drive I set first, my SSD second, and the DVD drive third. The SSD is in SATA 1, the hard drive in SATA 2, and the DVD drive in SATA 4. When I reboot, it says press a key, I press a key, and it don't work

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Why do you have a flash drive in the PC ?

To install windows from a flash drive, you connect ONLY the SSD ...HD not connected / DVD not connected.

Once Windows is installed, the flash drive comes out and you put it in a drawer.

Of course if you have system set to boot from flash drive, it's going to go looking for Windows on the FD, to my understanding you have installed Windows to the SSD ad that shud be the 1st boot device.