Hi all
I recently installed a new motherboard, cpu, gpu, power supply. I fired up the machine and everything looked good first try! I then get to the boot menu in BIOS and it’s stuck. I then realized that a friend of mine who lives almost 100 miles away has the thumb drive with my windows key as he did the original build for me.
I can see my M.2 SSD (only drive I have in the system) listed in BIOS but the system won’t let me select the drive as a boot location. I’m assuming at this point that I need the original windows thumb drive to get things going.
Is it possible that a place such as Geek Squad would have a “dummy boot device” to get things going and then have the OS on my SSD run things from there, or am I going to have to make the drive to get my thumb drive from my friends house?
Thanks for any replies, it’s been a very long (~20 years) time since I’ve built/re-built a computer.
I recently installed a new motherboard, cpu, gpu, power supply. I fired up the machine and everything looked good first try! I then get to the boot menu in BIOS and it’s stuck. I then realized that a friend of mine who lives almost 100 miles away has the thumb drive with my windows key as he did the original build for me.
I can see my M.2 SSD (only drive I have in the system) listed in BIOS but the system won’t let me select the drive as a boot location. I’m assuming at this point that I need the original windows thumb drive to get things going.
Is it possible that a place such as Geek Squad would have a “dummy boot device” to get things going and then have the OS on my SSD run things from there, or am I going to have to make the drive to get my thumb drive from my friends house?
Thanks for any replies, it’s been a very long (~20 years) time since I’ve built/re-built a computer.