Subject: SM951 as OS boot device information
Posted: 08 Feb 2017 at 6:55am
Ok. I tried re-installing windows from the same USB via UEFI and all devices disconnected without any luck.
I then booted back into my old OS downloaded rufus and a Windows 10 iso via the media creation tool. Unfortunately my first attempts did not work and USB drive would not boot as UEFI, as I did not realise at the time that when I selected the ISO in Rufus it changed the GPT UEFI and FAT32 options to MBR UEFI and NTFS.
I fixed that and created another UEFI bootable USB, disconnected all drives except for my PCIE adaptor with M.2 SSD, I booted USB via UEFI deleted all the current partitions on the SDD and started a clean install. Windows copied all the files (I walked away to do a couple of other things) and rebooted, but when it started again it went straight back into the Install Windows from the start again...
I rebooted and jumped into the BIOS and it had no other boot options. I checked all the windows partitions were created on the SSD. So I tried it again, but with the same result.
Is it possible that I have my PCIE Adaptor in the wrong slot for booting? currently plugged into PCIE3. I read that Sandy Bridge runs at 2.0 in this slot, but that should not prevent it from booting from this drive should it?
Any suggestions? Am I missing something basic here as part of the installation?
G.
Edited by Gambit - 2 hours 5 minutes ago at 6:55am