[SOLVED] Initial POST straight to windows installation, ok?

Assaf Patishi

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Hi,
I built a new pc and when I first powered it up I had a USB stick connected at the back with windows 10 installation.
The Motherboard restarted a few times while running some codes, and than it skipped the bios and went straight to windows installation screen.
Is it ok to do this? could it harm the first launch in some weird way I don't know about?
I mean..the pc runs fine and all but I am just curious about this "POST"..what does it exactly do (why did it restart a few times? whats meaning of this)
 
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Restarting is a normal part of a windows installation.
The default bios settings are usually fine so I would expect no problems.
The one bad possibility would be if you had any other drives except the windows C drive connected during the install.
That would cause windows to install some a hidden recovery partition on the second drive.
That makes you always need to have the second drive to be able to boot.
If you had such a second drive connected, I suggest you disable it and redo the installation.
Restarting is a normal part of a windows installation.
The default bios settings are usually fine so I would expect no problems.
The one bad possibility would be if you had any other drives except the windows C drive connected during the install.
That would cause windows to install some a hidden recovery partition on the second drive.
That makes you always need to have the second drive to be able to boot.
If you had such a second drive connected, I suggest you disable it and redo the installation.
 
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Hi,
I only had one ssd during the installation. that's not what I'm asking.
I'm asking if it is bad to have usb drive (or another "bootable" drive) connected to the pc during the first POST (when the motherboard check all the hardware and running codes and stuff).
The first time you power a pc with a new motherboard, it takes more time than usual "normal" post, cause it need to "read" all the hardware and check if everything is ok. And usually it goes into the bios right after the POST is succesful. Because I had a "bootable" drive (the usb with windows installation) it skipped the bios and went straight to the windows installation.
I just want to know if that's ok, or maybe it can screw up the codes loading or something :)