[SOLVED] HELP

[TenseiOW]

I have the Asus Z390 E. My hard drives are detected but it says "the system cannot find any bootable devices"

 

[4745454b]

Are you booting from the correct drive? When did this happen? Are you trying to move an existing system to a new board?

 

[TenseiOW]

Are you booting from the correct drive? When did this happen? Are you trying to move an existing system to a new board?

Im moving my old hard drives into a brand new system. On my UEFI bios utility it says im on the correct drive

 

[Flayed]

You expect that to work? I would run the windows installer.

 

[TenseiOW]

You expect that to work? I would run the windows installer.

The hard drive has Windows on it already...

 

[DSzymborski]

The hard drive has Windows on it already...

Windows installations are not intended to be modular. You may have another problem, but the best way to pinpoint problems is to make sure you're doing everything else correctly. If you're just slapping in an old Windows installation into your new PC, you're not doing it correctly.

 

[TenseiOW]

Windows installations are not intended to be modular. You may have another problem, but the best way to pinpoint problems is to make sure you're doing everything else correctly. If you're just slapping in an old Windows installation into your new PC, you're not doing it correctly.

Windows installations are not intended to be modular. You may have another problem, but the best way to pinpoint problems is to make sure you're doing everything else correctly. If you're just slapping in an old Windows installation into your new PC, you're not doing it correctly.

Windows installations are not intended to be modular. You may have another problem, but the best way to pinpoint problems is to make sure you're doing everything else correctly. If you're just slapping in an old Windows installation into your new PC, you're not doing it correctly.

Do i have to reinstall windows even though the hard drive i have already has windows on it?

 

[DSzymborski]

Do i have to reinstall windows even though the hard drive i have already has windows on it?

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it appears to work but annoying problems pop up for a year.

The best practice is always to do a full wipe and OS install on a major hardware upgrade. It's already best practice; that you're already facing an actual problem rather than smooth sailing means it's a double no-brainer. It makes it extremely hard to pinpoint problems when you cut corners. Windows installs, unless you're using a very specific Windows-to-Go install, are not Lego.

 

[TenseiOW]

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it appears to work but annoying problems pop up for a year.

The best practice is always to do a full wipe and OS install on a major hardware upgrade. It's already best practice; that you're already facing an actual problem rather than smooth sailing means it's a double no-brainer. It makes it extremely hard to pinpoint problems when you cut corners. Windows installs, unless you're using a very specific Windows-to-Go install, are not Lego.

How do i get windows on a flash drive?

 

[DSzymborski]

How do i get windows on a flash drive?

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-...-media-uefi-support#create_windows10_uefi_mct

 

[4745454b]

I doubt you have it hooked up correctly if it can't find anything to boot from. Try hooking up only the windows drive. In the lowest number sata port.

You might need to reinstall Windows. It's never a 100% for sure to work just moving it over. But if it's not finding a boot drive then i know it's not right.

 

[TenseiOW]

I doubt you have it hooked up correctly if it can't find anything to boot from. Try hooking up only the windows drive. In the lowest number sata port.

You might need to reinstall Windows. It's never a 100% for sure to work just moving it over. But if it's not finding a boot drive then i know it's not right.

It recognizes the hard drives but detects no boot drive, ill just try to install windows from a flash drive onto my new PC

 

[4745454b]

Right. What I'm saying is the drive you picked as your boot drive isn't the drive with windows. Try picking another drive and see if it works.

Or just reinstall. You'll know for sure it will work then.