Question Windows not showing up in BIOS?

Nathan Brewer

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Hello, recently I installed windows 10 to my computer and it was working fine for 2-3 hours, then randomly my PC restarted and went into the shell menu/command prompt thing. I went into my BIOS and I didn't see the SSD or Windows Boot Manager in the boot settings. When I set my BIOS to Legacy+UEFI mode, I saw my SSD, but when I went to boot into my SSD it seems to think there is no Windows or anything installed. It just says to insert boot media and press any key to reboot into it. Is there any way I can fix this? I don't understand why this is happening as I had to restart my PC twice for 2 programs and after both restarts it loaded right back into windows. My friend says I need to install Motherboard drivers. He said I should reinstall windows so I can do that, but I wanted to see of there's another way I can fix this first before I reinstall windows.

Specs (Old computer, don't judge haha)

i7 3770k CPU
MSI Z774-G41 Motherboard
16GB DDR3 RAM
GTX 1660 GPU
1 SSD (Windows installed on this)
1TB HDD (Clean HDD)
2TB HDD (Clean HDD)

I am using Click BIOS 2
 
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I went into my BIOS and I didn't see the SSD or Windows Boot Manager in the boot settings.
When I set my BIOS to Legacy+UEFI mode, I saw my SSD, but when I went to boot into my SSD it seems to think there is no Windows or anything installed. It just says to insert boot media and press any key to reboot into it.
If windows was installed in UEFI mode, then you can boot into UEFI mode only (Windows Boot Manager boot entry).
Legacy boot will not work.
Is there any way I can fix this?
Reinstall.
Have only single drive connected, while installing windows.
Physically disconnect all the other drives.

What model SSD are you using?
BTW - it's also possible, your SSD has died.
 

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