[SOLVED] Motherboard will not boot after installing new HDD

[KittySushi]

I had two hard drives: a 128GB SSD (System Drive) and a 1TB HDD Mechanical.
I decided to replace the 1TB HDD mechanical one with an SSD, and that is when things suddenly stopped working.
Both hard drives have power and SATA connections. Neither hard drives are recognized on the motherboard unless CSM(?) is enabled. When trying to boot with csm, it doesn’t work and tells me that I need to connect a bootable device.

I put a bootable windows 10 thumb drive in the USB slot and booted via UEFI and it works fine. However when choosing an install directory, it tells me that there are no compatible drives recognized to install the OS onto.

It is strange how the mobo recognizes the drives, but I cannot do anything with them.

I tried checking connections, reseating cables, and leaving the power supply off for several minutes.

Specs:
Intel i5 9600k
16GB Ripjaws
1x Samsung EVO 128GB SSD
1x Samsung QVO 1TB SSD
GeForce GTX 1070
Asus Maximus XI Hero motherboard

If anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated!

 

[rocktalkrock]

When you enable CSM in the BIOS do you have it set to "Boot from Storage Devices"?

The following items appear only when you set the Launch CSM to [Enabled].

Boot from Storage Devices

• This item allows you to select the type of storage devices that you want to launch.
• Configuration options: [Ignore] [Legacy only] [UEFI driver first]

 

[KittySushi]

Yes, it is set to boot from storage devices.

 

[KittySushi]

I managed to find an old HDD with a Ubuntu partition on it and it boots to Ubuntu just fine. However the other SSDs connected are not being recognized by Ubuntu or being recognized by a Windows USB when trying to do a clean install.

I have a feeling it has something to do with how my bios is reading the hard drives.

 

[KittySushi]

I just thought I would add an update to my situation. I've been at this all day. CMS is now enabled (it wasn't before when I had my SSD and my HDD), and now my bios recognizes the drives without an issue.

These are my drives:
128GB SSD (For OS)
1TB HDD (Old one for games, being replaced - has Ubuntu on it)
1TB SSD (New one for games)

At the moment, I figure the reason I have this error is because I removed the HDD that was present in the computer at the time of installation of Windows on my SSD disk. I went into Ubuntu and it recognizes the SSD drives perfectly fine, and even allows me to partition/reformat and store files on the drive. I then reformatted both SSDs to NTFS (my old 128GB one and my new 1TB one).

However when trying to re-install Windows, it tells me that it is missing a device driver. When opening the command prompt with SHIFT+F10, it shows the SSD drive that I am trying to install to with diskpart. It just.. doesn't have a driver for it? I'm not sure.

I reinstalled Windows 10 on the thumb drive and moved it to different ports on my motherboard to make sure it wasn't a corrupt installation -- that didn't work.

I read from some users that a bad bios (mainly from ASUS ones - which I have) can cause 2.0/3.0 usb issues when installing an OS via thumb drive. I updated the bios and am trying that now.

I will keep posting updates. Thank you.

 

[KittySushi]

I found a fix. I'd like to share incase anyone else comes across this problem later:

I resetted the CMOS on my motherboard. Reformatted all hard drives and the USB drive. Used another Windows computer to install the Windows 10 USB Boot Utility. I was trying the ISO earlier and it didn't work. The second I switched to the USB program, it started to work.