Installing 2nd NVMe SSD made my primary unbootable

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Hello,

My computer was running just fine for almost two months now. Today I tried to install another 1tb NVMe SSD.

I went into the BIOS to check the boot order. Ended up turning on XMP and virtualization as well. This caused boot loop with the BIOS and keyboard inputs freaking out.

  • BIOS was on F3. I tried clearing CMOS and reseating both SSD.
  • Ended up flashing new BIOS. So I am now on F6b.

It’s working normally I believe, I haven’t changed anything from default except Boot Order.

I still cannot boot into Windows.

I have tried:

  • a Linux boot USB and checked the primary SSD is still accessible.
  • a Windows boot USB to try to “Repair Startup” option.
  • booting with only the one NVMe SSD.
  • changing the M.2 slot from A to B on the board.

My long weekend is ruined, I have no idea what my next steps are. I am afraid of having to install Windows and all my software all over again. Is there anything you would suggest?

At this point I am unsure if I should install Windows on the Silicon Power drive and use the WD drive as the secondary.

Any help is appreciated. Please let me know what other information I can provide.

My specs:

Aorus X570 Ultra

AMD 3800X

GSkill 32GB RAM

RTX 2080

1 3TB HDD, 1 2TB HDD

Primary Windows

WD_Black SN750 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD - Gen3 PCIe, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 3470 MB/s - WDS100T3X0C
New Secondary

Silicon Power 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 TLC R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s SSD (SU001TBP34A80M28AB)

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Remove the new ssd and see if you are able to boot and if not, try to repair the bootloader from a windows usb install

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Those are things I have already tried.

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What error do you get when booting?

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The “no bootable media … restart or select media” text error. I am uncertain when this could have happened as the thing that happened was BIOS problems.

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Boot into linux and try os-prober, see it can detect the windows efi

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Sorry, do you have a guide to follow? I couldn’t find anything that made sense to me. My USB has Ubuntu 18.04. The WiFi isn’t working, I don’t know if it is something I need to install.

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Change your BIOS back to default and try to boot to Windows

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Yes, that was tried.

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So you tried the windows recovery tool and it couldn’t find your install?

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I tried this.

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Why are you creating partitions if you’re trying to boot to an existing partition?

And why are you trying to solve this in cmd?

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I am trying to fix my partition.

How else can I solve this? Gparted in Ubuntu? Instruction guides for these keep bringing up dual boot/gpt.

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Can you provide some suggestions to help me?

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What made you come to the conclusion that something is wrong with the partition? The partition shouldn’t have any problems unless you did something to it.

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Take a picture of your boot options after pressing F11 or whatever yours is.

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I keep trying to boot into my drive. One of the pictures shows the partitions are there and active but selecting the drive to boot is not working. I searched some stuff about how to find windows efi and came to some guides on boot recovery.

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I removed all my extra drives. Keep getting this.

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Do you have a windows installer on a usb anywhere? You need to boot to that and recover.

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That’s where the cmd pictures were from. I tried the automated repair. It’s not working.

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Try installation then and select keep files and other stuff. Just reinstall and save all your important stuff.