Question System not recognizing clean installed Windows 10/11 ?

Jun 27, 2023
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I just built a new pc. When I go to install setup Windows 10/11 via USB it goes fine, but after the setup is done and it restarts, the system is not able to boot up from the ssd. When pressing F11 and going to boot manager, it doesn't show any drives. I have tried UEFI and CSM install, neither work. In CSM BIOS mode, the PC shows up all drives, but then after choosing right one it says "Reboot and select proper boot device".
My SSD is old and from old PC, could that have any effect on this? Even though I formatted it through Windows setup installer.

The setup is:
MSI Mag B650 Tomahawk WiFi
AMD Ryzen 5 7600x
Corsair Vengeance 32GB 6000mhz RAM
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti
 
shouldn´t have to do with its age, if it´s not faulty though

might be a TPM issue of the BIOS version
update the BIOS of your motherboard using m-flash within the BIOS
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyFMf0D9Lc


if you´ve installed it while using UEFI/GPT, then boot using the boot option windows boot manager, presented in the BIOS boot order

How did you create the USB install stick? Use this https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

Did you install windows 10 and 11? or just one of these? Use the https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
while installing did you delete all partitions via the setup and not only formatted it??
 
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Ok. So I changed the SSD which I tried to install Windows on and it worked perfectly. Somehow the original SSD was corrupted in a way that you could use it for games etc, but it was not suitable for UEFI Windows.
 
Somehow the original SSD was corrupted in a way that you could use it for games etc, but it was not suitable for UEFI Windows.
If the drive is prepartitioned (has partitions with data in them), then it may not be possible to install windows in UEFI mode.
UEFI mode requires drive to be partitioned in GPT partition format.
If your drive is partitioned in MBR format, this is not supported by UEFI mode.

This has nothing to do with corruption.

That's why, it is recommended to
have only single drive connected, while installing windows, and​
clean target drive before installing windows. This removes any previous partitioning (and data also).​
 
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