Question My old m.2 ssd with with windows on it will not boot when I installed a new m. 2 ssd in my pc

[pogbeast]

When I first built the PC, I had a an m.2 500gb ssd and a sata 2tb hard drive and installed my windows to the ssd, now, newer games require an ssd so I went and bought a 1tb m.2 ssd, install went fine, but when I go past my motherboard splash screen and try and boot to windows I get a message saying reboot and select proper boot drive or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.

I restart it and go to the bios and see the boot option has selected the new driv, I change it to the old ssd with windows on it but I don’t see my hard drive boot option anymore as it used to be there when I first built the pc and set the boot drive back then.

I try and boot again and the same thing happens

I read somewhere that when windows installs not all of it goes into the boot drive and some of the install goes onto a separate drive

I also read that if 2 m.2 ssds are installed some sata ports get disabled so maybe the two things are related ?

I need someone to help me please!

 

[USAFRet]

Please give us a detailed rundown of the hardware in this system.
Make/model of everything.

Also, a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[pogbeast]

Please give us a detailed rundown of the hardware in this system.
Make/model of everything.

Also, a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Oh yeah sorry forgot the specs:

B450 f motherboard
Amd Ryzen 7 2700x
Windows 10 if it works
Powercolor 6600xt
16gb ram
Kingston snvs500g 500gb model
Nextorage ssd nem-pa1tb 1tb model
Seagate barracuda sata hard drive 2tb
750 watt gold power supply

And I don’t know where the disk management window is

 

[USAFRet]

Right click on the Start button, Disk Management should be listed there.

 

[pogbeast]

Right click on the Start button, Disk Management should be listed there.

What I’m not in windows I literally said I can’t boot

 

[dwd999]

install went fine

Please define "install went fine". Exactly what did you do; did you clone your old drive onto your new drive; or did you perform a fresh install of windows on the new drive; or did you do something else. If you performed a fresh install of windows the windows installer generally works best when there is only 1 drive connected at installation time; other drives can be connected after installation is complete.

 

[USAFRet]

What I’m not in windows I literally said I can’t boot

Remove the new drive and start over.

 

[pogbeast]

Remove the new drive and start over.

Start what over

 

[USAFRet]

Start what over

Can you return the system back to original working condition?

I'm asking for the DM window, to see if the boot partition is on the HDD.

Yes, Windows exists on the SSD. But the small boot partition may exist on the HDD.

Addition of the new NVMe may disable that SATA port. With that...no boot for you.

The solution may be as simple as moving the data cable for the HDD to a different SATA port on the motherboard.

 

[pogbeast]

Can you return the system back to original working condition?

I'm asking for the DM window, to see if the boot partition is on the HDD.

Yes, Windows exists on the SSD. But the small boot partition may exist on the HDD.

Addition of the new NVMe may disable that SATA port. With that...no boot for you.

The solution may be as simple as moving the data cable for the HDD to a different SATA port on the motherboard.

Thank you bro , I saw another post that u replied on with The answer being to switch to another sata port , and now I boot perfectly but the new ssd isn’t there , do I just go to disk management and do the same thing I did with my other drives or are there extra steps u da goat!

 

[USAFRet]

Thank you bro , I saw another post that u replied on with The answer being to switch to another sata port , and now I boot perfectly but the new ssd isn’t there , do I just go to disk management and do the same thing I did with my other drives or are there extra steps u da goat!

Well, I'd like to see if the boot partition actually exists on the HDD.
This is shown in DM.

 

[pogbeast]

Well, I'd like to see if the boot partition actually exists on the HDD.
This is shown in DM.

Yeah system reserved 50mb on the hard drive

 

[USAFRet]

Which specific B450 F motherboard?

But...the new NVMe likely disables on or more SATA ports.
Simple solution, connect that HDD to a different one.

Then, put the new NVMe drive in and continue on.

 

[pogbeast]

Alls fine now boss everything works with the new ssd inside the system thank you

 

[USAFRet]

Alls fine now boss everything works with the new ssd inside the system thank you

Note for the future:
That boot partition ended up on the HDD, because you had both drives connected when you did the install. Nothing you selected or could prevent...it just does that.

Next time you install Windows, have only ONE drive physically connected.