Question PC doesn't boot when new M.2 SSD is installed ?

[darkcry411]

Hello all, I wanted to expand my storage so I installed a new HyperX Fury Renegade gen 4 1TB SSD in my system. and now my pc gets a blue screen everytime I try to boot. Moreover I’m in a loop where it first gets a blue screen, then it throws me to automatic repair. When I remove this new SSD, the system works without a problem, but the SSD works on two other systems, one of them being the same motherboard and cpu as my system.

I tried everything that’s mentioned in the following thread (except for taking out the cmos battery, because I don’t wanna mess with that yet):

Question - Installing a second M.2 NVMe SSD, now PC won't boot and just loops Windows Automatic Repair ?

So I am trying to install a new drive, a second m.2 ssd for more storage for games and it just won't get to windows. I have tried pretty much all options and none work. I will say all the steps I took. First time trying to setup the new drive: Plug the m.2 into the mobo. (I have 5 total drive...

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With the fact that it works in other systems and that my bios and drivers are up to date it means there is some bios setting or I don’t know what that is causing problems, but I can’t figure it out at all, so please can someone help me who is more knowledgeable.

My specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 gaming x(bios version f17c)
RAM: hyperx fury 3000mhz 2x 4gb
corsair vengeance 3000mhz 2x4gb
GPU: Radeon 6650XT
SSD: samsung 970 evo plus gen 3 500GB(boot drive)
HDD:Seagate barracuda 1TB
old 320 gb maxtor drive
PSU: Seasonic G12 GM-550
(I know ram isn’t ideal bit there haven’t been problems with that)
PS: sorry for bad formatting, typed this on my phone

 

[SkyNetRising]

now my pc gets a blue screen everytime I try to boot.

Can you show a photo of blue screen?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Generally you have to check boot priority settings after adding a new storage device.

 

[darkcry411]

Can you show a photo of blue screen?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Generally you have to check boot priority settings after adding a new storage device.

I have never used imgur, but I hope it worked:

https://imgur.com/a/20gphEt

View: https://imgur.com/a/20gphEt

 

[SkyNetRising]

Install the drive in your other system and clean the drive.
Use diskpart clean method.
Cleaning removes all data and partitioning from the drive. Don't clean the wrong drive.

 

[darkcry411]

I’ll try that, but the other system is elsewhere so that will take some time, will update when that’s done.

 

[darkcry411]

On second thoughts, what would that even do, that is just a fancy way of resetting it back to factory settings, and it didn’t work out of the box for me, but did in two other systems, the problem is with my pc not the ssd. I have changed boot order, put it in different slots, disabled/enabled fast boot/secure boot. At this point I just want other stuff that I can check in bios, or in windows or wherever on my system.

 

[Bob.B]

On second thoughts, what would that even do, that is just a fancy way of resetting it back to factory settings, and it didn’t work out of the box for me, but did in two other systems, the problem is with my pc not the ssd. I have changed boot order, put it in different slots, disabled/enabled fast boot/secure boot. At this point I just want other stuff that I can check in bios, or in windows or wherever on my system.

Just a test.......unplug both hdd's.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Many motherboard share lanes with SATA/NVME.
So when you plug in the NVME your SATA ports get disabled.
One of your SATA drives probably has the boot partition on it.

 

[darkcry411]

Unplugged HDD’s, still doing the same

 

[SkyNetRising]

On second thoughts, what would that even do

There are couple of situations, that can cause problems.
1. I suspect your new drive has bootloader partition on it.
When you install new drive, system tries to boot from it and fails.
2. There is partition identifier string conflict with one of your existing drives and new drive.
This can be resolved by cleaning the new drive.

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management? - with only old drives installed.
(to check, if bootloader is on same drive with windows)

 

[darkcry411]

There are couple of situations, that can cause problems.
1. I suspect your new drive has bootloader partition on it.
When you install new drive, system tries to boot from it and fails.
2. There is partition identifier string conflict with one of your existing drives and new drive.
This can be resolved by cleaning the new drive.

Alright, there could be something in cleaning it, but I don't think it has any bootloader shenanigans, even forcing a load in to my actual boot drive results the same, and even before it got formatted it was throwing the same errors. Also it works flawlessly on other systems, so I guess the only thing here that could be it is the conflicting identifier idea. I'll have an update on this in an hour or so.

 

[Bob.B]

Unplugged HDD’s, still doing the same

Just to be clear with only the 970 connected the pc boots ok then if you add the new disk it fails to boot?

 

[darkcry411]

Just to be clear with only the 970 connected the pc boots ok then if you add the new disk it fails to boot?

yes

 

[darkcry411]

There are couple of situations, that can cause problems.
1. I suspect your new drive has bootloader partition on it.
When you install new drive, system tries to boot from it and fails.
2. There is partition identifier string conflict with one of your existing drives and new drive.
This can be resolved by cleaning the new drive.

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management? - with only old drives installed.
(to check, if bootloader is on same drive with windows)

using disk part didn't help, still is the same, also here is a screenshot of the disk management tool:

https://imgur.com/a/htYibOm

View: https://imgur.com/a/htYibOm

 

[SkyNetRising]

using disk part didn't help, still is the same, also here is a screenshot of the disk management tool:

That screenshot looks fine.
Bootloader and OS partitions are on the same drive.

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management,
when new 1TB drive is installed into your other system?