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    Posted: 24 Aug 2018 at 7:07pm
hi

i have purchased a B450 pro 4 with a ryzen 7 1700.  Machine boots fine but the samsung M.2 is not booting - it already has a OS installed. It doesn't show on the boot options.

Anyone from Asrock know why?  bios is only one available. 

Looked ion to the options and nothing shows. 

under storage configuration, the samsung m.2 drive is showing on that screen under my other 2 drives.

when i go to install windows from a usb drive, the drive is detected to install but cannot install to it as it has a GPT partition.


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anyone from ASROCK help at all?
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in windows does the m2 drive appear in 'computer management>disk management' ?
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yes, it shows up fine in disc management and in the bios.  but will not let me select as a boot drive in the bios.
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in bios check boot tab, there should be CSM, harddrives should be set to either UEFI only or both legacy/uefi

boot files are on EFI partition (around 100MB),
as long that partition contains valid data, bios will see it

sooo, if u still cant boot, u will need to repair your efi partition

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Originally posted by kerberos_20 kerberos_20 wrote:

in bios check boot tab, there should be CSM, harddrives should be set to either UEFI only or both legacy/uefi

boot files are on EFI partition (around 100MB),
as long that partition contains valid data, bios will see it

sooo, if u still cant boot, u will need to repair your efi partition


thanks, did all that, and it only looks at the unallocated partition which is 1mb.  the EFI is there. i think i'll install windows over the existing one, that way i get my files back.  really annoying though!
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ok, installed windows on the drive after i'd backed everything up and still not recognised as a boot drive.  could the mobo be faulty?
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you might have to pertition it again with partition magic or something
and then install as uefi
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how did u install it
m.2 drive has MBR or GTP?
if its GTP, EFI partition exists?
CSM is legacy or UEFI?

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hi all.

ok, backup my data anf deleted all partitions and formatted the drive.  i then reinstalled windows as uefi as previously done onto a blank unformatted drive and let windows create the partition, doesn't detect it in the bios and then blue screens saying media is required.  boot from SSD that is on sata port and fine, works no issue.  Took the m.2 out as didn;t work, put my other 2 drives back in, neither has windows on it, on start up, blue screens with the error windows code and has select other oc when F9 is pressed, and this brings 2 os choices up when only 1 drive has windows on it, then boots when other version of windows is selected.  does the same thing on reboot.  also, the front USB3 ports do not work so i feel this motherboard is faulty.


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