Reboot and select a proper boot device after installing new drives

[LightningsalesUK]

So I just a new m.2 NVMe ssd and a new HDD for my system, I installed the drives and rebooted my system, now it says reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.

I originally have 1 120gb ssd and 2x 1tb hdd and I upgraded to 1 120gb(old drive with os on) 1x 256gb m.2 nvme drive, 1x 3tb HDD and 1x 1tb hdd.

I have checked the bios and the HDD while plugged in a spinning up do not show up at all, I can find the SSD in the bios, in the first boot order and I can find the m.2 in the second and in the NVMe part too, however if I got to reinstall windows only the 120gb ssd shows up in the install select area.

Any ideas, I would like to keep my orginal windows ssd as os for now as there are files I need to recover before I wipe it and install windows on the m.2

Thanks!

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Installing an M.2 can do either of the following:

1) change the boot order of your hdds. go into bios and set the priority.
2) knock out specific SATA ports because it has to use high speed i/o to the CPU. To fix THAT you'll have to determine which SATA ports might be lost when using your m.2 drive.

As for installing Windows, the m.2 might not show due to the need for a driver. NMVE is new enough that only win10 could have native support. Then you have the whole chicken/egg issue similar to a non-supported nic (dont have nic driver but cant download nic driver...)

 

[LightningsalesUK]

Installing an M.2 can do either of the following:

1) change the boot order of your hdds. go into bios and set the priority.
2) knock out specific SATA ports because it has to use high speed i/o to the CPU. To fix THAT you'll have to determine which SATA ports might be lost when using your m.2 drive.

As for installing Windows, the m.2 might not show due to the need for a driver. NMVE is new enough that only win10 could have native support. Then you have the whole chicken/egg issue similar to a non-supported nic (dont have nic driver but cant download nic driver...)

I took out the nvme and all worked fine, all the hdds showed up and I booted into windows, I shut off the pc and installed the nvme again and now 1 HDD and the ssd show up along the the m.2, on hdd does not and it gets the same boot error as before, definitely the m.2 at fault here. is there anything I should pre-download as I can boot into windows wthout the nvme installed

 

[USAFRet]

Installing an M.2 can do either of the following:

1) change the boot order of your hdds. go into bios and set the priority.
2) knock out specific SATA ports because it has to use high speed i/o to the CPU. To fix THAT you'll have to determine which SATA ports might be lost when using your m.2 drive.

As for installing Windows, the m.2 might not show due to the need for a driver. NMVE is new enough that only win10 could have native support. Then you have the whole chicken/egg issue similar to a non-supported nic (dont have nic driver but cant download nic driver...)

I took out the nvme and all worked fine, all the hdds showed up and I booted into windows, I shut off the pc and installed the nvme again and now 1 HDD and the ssd show up along the the m.2, on hdd does not and it gets the same boot error as before, definitely the m.2 at fault here. is there anything I should pre-download as I can boot into windows wthout the nvme installed

As said above, it is probably a case of that NVMe drive disabling one or more SATA ports.
Look in your user manual to see if that is the case, and which SATA ports they are.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

The disappearing drives are a PHYSICAL issue. As I said, the NVME drives use up to 4 pcie lanes and are switched with other SATA lanes. What mobo do you have?

 

[LightningsalesUK]

The disappearing drives are a PHYSICAL issue. As I said, the NVME drives use up to 4 pcie lanes and are switched with other SATA lanes. What mobo do you have?

It is a gigabyte z97x-game plus, it has 4 sata express and 2 sata 3, i tried moving the drive which isnt showing to sata 3 port however nothing

 

[LightningsalesUK]

The disappearing drives are a PHYSICAL issue. As I said, the NVME drives use up to 4 pcie lanes and are switched with other SATA lanes. What mobo do you have?

I tried another reeboot and it decided to fire up this time!

 

[LightningsalesUK]

The disappearing drives are a PHYSICAL issue. As I said, the NVME drives use up to 4 pcie lanes and are switched with other SATA lanes. What mobo do you have?

The drive now plugged into sata 3 is awfully slow

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Yup, looking at the specs, using m.2 will turn off the last two sata ports (4/5).

 

[LightningsalesUK]

Yup, looking at the specs, using m.2 will turn off the last two sata ports (4/5).

yep the 3rd hdd was in port 4, so my 3rd hdd is going to be sata3 slow until I upgrade the mobo?

 

[USAFRet]

Yup, looking at the specs, using m.2 will turn off the last two sata ports (4/5).

yep the 3rd hdd was in port 4, so my 3rd hdd is going to be sata3 slow until I upgrade the mobo?

A hard drive in a SATA III port is not 'slow'. At all.
That port can handle at least 4x the throughput that the drive can deliver.

 

[LightningsalesUK]

Yup, looking at the specs, using m.2 will turn off the last two sata ports (4/5).

yep the 3rd hdd was in port 4, so my 3rd hdd is going to be sata3 slow until I upgrade the mobo?

A hard drive in a SATA III port is not 'slow'. At all.
That port can handle at least 4x the throughput that the drive can deliver.

It just seemed slower than what I am use to, I went to my downloads folder and It definitely was slower to load than before, maybe thats just me with a placebo affect caused by the sata 3

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Looking at the blockout of the design, all the storage and connections such as network still goes through the chipset via the dmi 2.0 interface which has a max of 2GB/sec. Multiple ssds, hdds, network traffic etc along with a NVME drive could saturate that link.

I dont know enough about your setup though. Skylake upgrades to dmi 3.0 and thus faster links...