Question "Reboot and Select proper Boot device" after installing a second M.2 SSD ?

[freddatos]

Hello!

So as the title reads, I recently purchased another M.2 drive, the Samsung 980 PRO 1TB. Before, I was using Samsung 970 EVO 500gb with Windows installed on it. Now I have reformated my old M.2 and installed Windows on my second one (980). I get this message on startup "Reboot and Select proper Boot device". I can't seem to find a way around it. Inside BIOS storage information it detects both drives and I have boot priority set to my 980 one but each boot it's the same message.

When I am installing my old HDD and SSD, I can somehow magically boot directly into Windows and everything works.... But the problem is I don't want to use these because I am sick of 4 extra cables, the only reason I bought this 980 was to get faster speeds and ditch the cables.

I am using the ASUS STRIX F-GAMING Z390. The 980 is in slot M2_1 (near cpu), and the second is in M2_2 (under gpu)

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

 

[helpstar]

Is the boot order set to windows boot manager?
Did you try setting the boot order to the other drive?
Any other drives installed?

Is the Bios of the motherboard up to date?

 

[dwd999]

Hello!

So as the title reads, I recently purchased another M2 drive, the Samsung 980 PRO 1tb. Before I was using Samsung 970 EVO 500gb with Windows installed on it. Now I have formated my old M2 and installed Windows on my second one (980). I get this message on startup "Reboot and Select proper Boot device". I can't seem to find a way around it. Inside BIOS storage information it detects both drives and I have boot priority set to my 980 one but each boot it's the same message.

When I am installing my old HDD and SSD, I can somehow magically boot directly into Windows and everything works.... But the problem is I don't want to use these because I am sick of 4 extra cables, the only reason I bought this 980 was to get faster speeds and ditch the cables.

I am using the ASUS STRIX F-GAMING Z390. The 980 is into slot M2_1 (near cpu), and the second is in M2_2 (under gpu)

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

How many drives did you have connected when you installed Windows? The installer may not work properly if there is more than 1 drive connected at installation time; others can be connected after installation is complete. You may have to reinstall Windows.

 

[freddatos]

Is the boot order set to windows boot manager?
Did you try setting the boot order to the other drive?
Any other drives installed?

Is the Bios of the motherboard up to date?

Do you set the boot order to windows boot manager inside bios?
I only tried to set boot order to my drive that had windows installed on it.
My M2_1 have windows installed on it and my M2_2 is formated.
I updated bios to the latest version 1 month ago.

 

[freddatos]

How many drives did you have connected when you installed Windows? The installer may not work properly if there is more than 1 drive connected at installation time; others can be connected after installation is complete. You may have to reinstall Win

I formated my M2_1 which is the 980 NVME and reinstalled windows. During the reinstall, I had two M2 drives in the motherboard aswell as 1 ssd and 1 hdd. Now when startup, windows is asking me the choose between 4 different OS, the first one shows "Windows 10, on volume 2" meanwhile the other 3 shows "Windows 10"

 

[helpstar]

Remove all drives except the one you wanna boot from, then reinstall/reset Windows to be sure the boot drive will be this one.

 

[freddatos]

Remove all drives except the one you wanna boot from, then reinstall/reset Windows to be sure the boot drive will be this one.

Went into BIOS to disable both secure boot and CSM launch. Tried to reinstall windows and before you choose which drive I Shift+F10 and wiped everything and set everything to GPT if it wasn't already GPT. It works now