Device boots incorrectly.
Device boots incorrectly.
I reinitialized the system to its standard configuration. I’m considering taking out the CMOS battery to fully reset the BIOS, though I thought the settings within the BIOS would handle that as well.
Okay, So I updated the BIOS last night, and that helped, but it's kind of a two steps forward one step back kind of thing. After updating the bios, The BIOS saw the drive as a boot device, but upon booting to it, it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key". So my first thought was "Oh windows must have not finished installing, so I created a new media installation flash drive, and windows actually let me install to the drive from this PC, but after windows rebooted to boot back to the actual drive, it gave me the same error message. I checked to see if it was proper boot order and sure enough it was still selected as boot device 1. If anyone has any advice, please let me know. Because this is a spare PC, upgrading any parts of the machine other than the drive (because I have a hard drive laying around (That I'd prefer not to use)) is not feasible. Thanks in advance for your help!
Do you have an extra storage device you can test? I just encountered a really odd drive identification issue last week and had to try another one. The original drive functions properly in other setups, but the new one isn’t compatible. Another possibility is a damaged motherboard and needing a replacement.