- Oct 6, 2023
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Hi. I run windows on a 500gig SSD with a 1tb HDD for storage. I was running out of space so I bought a 1tb nvme drive today and installed it. It showed up as a device in BIOS (MSI 5) just fine. Since the nvme is faster than the SSD it made sense to install windows on the new drive instead, so I plugged in my windows 10 USB stick in and started the process. I got to the point where I choose which drive to install it on and got cold feet. My options for installing were a little confusing as I could only see 1 1tb drive instead of the 2 I expected to see. It said the drive was completely empty but it wasn't named as m2 or anything and I didn't wanna wipe out everything on my hdd so I figured I'll cancel the install and boot windows to see if I needed to configure the m2 drive. I could at least check the total size of my HDD to see if it matched the size of the drive I had the option to install to when I was in windows setup.
Upon restarting I ran into the "reboot and select proper boot device" screen. I figured it's because I have the USB stick still plugged in so I remove that and try again. No luck. I went into BIOS and disabled everything in the boot priority menu apart from the ssd, and it didn't help. I got worried that disabling everything in the boot priority <Mod Edit> it up so I loaded optimised defaults, but still no luck. I restarted again and loaded into the boot options menu where my choices were the ssd or the m2. I chose SSD and still the same screen.
I have done a little googling around and most of the guides are for new installs/computers so they weren't relevant to my situation. I have tried unplugging the PC and holding the power button down to drain it. I have also tried unplugging every USB device including keyboard and mouse when starting up.
Does anyone have anything else I can try? Is it even worth trying as opposed to unplugging my ssd and hdd and just installing windows on the m2 ( assuming that is what was showing up in the options I mentioned earlier)
Sorry for the amount of text. Figured I should put as much information as possible here to avoid wasting people's time suggesting things I have done already. Thanks in advance.
Upon restarting I ran into the "reboot and select proper boot device" screen. I figured it's because I have the USB stick still plugged in so I remove that and try again. No luck. I went into BIOS and disabled everything in the boot priority menu apart from the ssd, and it didn't help. I got worried that disabling everything in the boot priority <Mod Edit> it up so I loaded optimised defaults, but still no luck. I restarted again and loaded into the boot options menu where my choices were the ssd or the m2. I chose SSD and still the same screen.
I have done a little googling around and most of the guides are for new installs/computers so they weren't relevant to my situation. I have tried unplugging the PC and holding the power button down to drain it. I have also tried unplugging every USB device including keyboard and mouse when starting up.
Does anyone have anything else I can try? Is it even worth trying as opposed to unplugging my ssd and hdd and just installing windows on the m2 ( assuming that is what was showing up in the options I mentioned earlier)
Sorry for the amount of text. Figured I should put as much information as possible here to avoid wasting people's time suggesting things I have done already. Thanks in advance.
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