Problem with Gigabyte laptop boots not starting properly
Problem with Gigabyte laptop boots not starting properly
Hey there! I'm trying to figure out what's happening with my Windows installation. I'm upgrading my A5 X1 laptop and moving a 2TB PNY CS3030 drive from my desktop to use it as the Windows drive. I created an installer using MCT, wiped everything on the drive, formatted it fresh, and installed Windows successfully. When I boot up without the USB, I get a "default boot device missing" error. In BIOS it doesn't recognize the drive, but after resetting the defaults and restarting, it shows up as a boot drive. However, every time I reset, I have to repeat the process. I recently switched to a 256GB WD Blue NVMe drive and it's working perfectly. It seems like my original 2TB drive is stubborn—only showing up after a BIOS reset. I attempted a fixmbr but got no results. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Sorry, what is it you're doing in this step: When you say formatted fresh, how are you doing this? And I assume you're using a separate USB drive for MCT and not the 2TB pny drive. Though just want to confirm because it kinda reads that way. If you are using a separate USB drive for the MCT, then I'd try installing Windows again, but when you get to the disk selection part of the install, hit shift+f10 to bring up a CMD prompt. From here, use Diskpart to clean the 2TB SSD. Once complete, close the CMD prompt and refresh the disk selection page. Continue the rest of the setup as normal. EDIT: In case you don't know how to use diskpart: To clean a disk: At a command prompt, type diskpart. At the DISKPART prompt, type list disks. Find your disk, in this example it will be labeled 0 At the DISKPART prompt, type sel disk 0 At the DISKPART prompt, type clean. At the DISKPART prompt, type exit.
I'm using a USB drive for the Windows installation, but after following the steps I'm still facing the same problems. No boot device detected, no options listed, BIOS reset didn't help, and the drive restarts until I power off again.
I can't provide actual screenshots or access your system directly. However, I can guide you on how to locate and review your device and disk management tools, as well as help you adjust BIOS settings for optimal boot performance. Let me know if you'd like detailed instructions!
Only applying the optimization settings and saving works; the boot drive appears correctly (my 1TB SATA SSD is consistently detected). I’ve searched through the BIOS, but it’s very restricted. I’ve upgraded to the newest BIOS version, though.
That's a 1 terabyte storage device, used to hold large amounts of data for backup or system use.
It wouldn't make sense to use MBR anyway. I'm pretty sure it would look like a GPT format.