Question PC Wants to boot from storage drive

[harryswartz]

I have a new 1TB Samsung storage ssd drive that has no OS on it yet my PC wants to boot from it . I have removed it and set it up via usb SATA but still the PC wants to boot from it. I must disconnect it for the PC to boot from the drive set in the BIOS . Never had this issue in the past when adding new storage.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot of boot priority settings from BIOS of your pc?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Also show screenshot from Disk Management.

 

[harryswartz]

Boot Option 1 selects the OS (boot manager) drive. All other options are disabled. I can only boot with the 1TB storage disconnected. I can connect it via USB after Windows starts. If I have the 1TB storage connected and access BIOS..... Boot option 1 still has the correct drive selected but when I exit BIOS the PC will try to boot from the 1TB storage. It will start to load files then it will go into repair mode. Any option to NOT boot from USB? That might work.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you check HDD BBS priority settings?

 

[harryswartz]

Should I just Disable the Storage Boot Option Control?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Those are CSM settings.
Show Boot Priority settings.

 

[harryswartz]

BBS Priorities?

 

[SkyNetRising]

BBS Priorities?

Boot Priority
HDD BBS Priority

On different motherboards those settings are organized differently.
You still haven't told us model name of your motherboard.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Show Boot Option Priorities - upper part of that screenshot with Boot Option #1 - Boot Option #6 (which you have very "conveniently" cropped out).
To avoid any boot priority confusion, you can simply leave single Boot Option #1 and disable all the other boot options (#2 - #6)

Also show screenshot from Windows - Disk Management.

 

[harryswartz]

HDD BBS Priority and Boot Options are not the same. Some BIOS have a HDD BBS Priority menu. This BIOS does not

 

[SkyNetRising]

Ok.
And now show screenshot from Windows Disk Management - with Samsung 1TB drive connected via USB.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Graphical portion of Disk Management should show all the drives.
Disk 3 is not visible.
I'm assuming Disk 3 is Samsung 1TB. Correct?

 

[harryswartz]

Disk 3 is the Samsung

 

[harryswartz]

And?

 

[SkyNetRising]

1TB drive is not bootable. You can't boot from it.

Set Boot Mode selection to "UEFI only" in BIOS
(screenshot in post #5).

Also set Storage Boot option to "UEFI only".

 

[harryswartz]

ok

 

[harryswartz]

Goes to Start Up repair if Boot Mode Selection set to UEFI Only. And that is with the 1TB drive disconnected. Thanks anyway.