Question Unable to load up OS - stuck on boot menu

[kmyszak667]

Hi guys, I could really use some help from someone who may know a thing or two about booting os from m.2 NVME SSD.

Basically, the story goes, I had built my PC, installed an NVME SSD + SATA SSD, installed windows 10 onto NVME and a could of days later I had to unplug everything from my PSU because I was swapping it for a different one, When I connected everything back up with the new PSU. I got stuck in the boot menu. The SSD has been identified however it will not let me select it as a boot option in the settings using UEFI. I changed it to CSM after watching a yt tutorial and it did appear as a bootable device so I selected and restarted but the system still failed to load off the NVME.

Any advice?

 

[rgd1101]

did you install windows with both nvme and sata ssd connected?

 

[Zerk2012]

Hi guys, I could really use some help from someone who may know a thing or two about booting os from m.2 NVME SSD.

Basically, the story goes, I had built my PC, installed an NVME SSD + SATA SSD, installed windows 10 onto NVME and a could of days later I had to unplug everything from my PSU because I was swapping it for a different one, When I connected everything back up with the new PSU. I got stuck in the boot menu. The SSD has been identified however it will not let me select it as a boot option in the settings using UEFI. I changed it to CSM after watching a yt tutorial and it did appear as a bootable device so I selected and restarted but the system still failed to load off the NVME.

Any advice?

Did you use the cables that came with the new PSU? If not you probably fried the SSD at least.

When you install the OS you should ONLY have the drive your installing to connected.
Windows has a bad habit of putting part of what you need to boot with on the other drive if one is connected.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I got stuck in the boot menu. The SSD has been identified however it will not let me select it as a boot option in the settings using UEFI.
I changed it to CSM after watching a yt tutorial and it did appear as a bootable device so I selected and restarted but the system still failed to load off the NVME.
Any advice?

What is a "boot menu"?
Can you show a photo?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

What model drives are being used?

If windows was installed in UEFI mode, then set first boot device to Windows Boot Manager (in BIOS boot priority settings).
If windows was installed in legacy mode, then set drive containing bootloader as first in boot priority.
Bootloader may not be on the same drive as windows OS, since you installed windows with both drives connected.

Make sure both drives get detected in BIOS.