#An operating system wasn't found.
lament totem
I just installed windows on a USB to boot on my newly built PC. Chucked it in, went to bios, selected "UEFI: General UDisk 5.00, Partition 1" as the first boot option, saved my changes and exited and now it's giving me this error. In the tutorial I saw for installing windows, the guy only had the UEFI option aside from his SSD, but I have another option which is named "USB: General UDisk 5.00"
Man I built this PC like 3 days ago and I haven't even used it yet ðŸ˜
The parts are as follows:
Ryzen 5 5600X
Kingston Fury Beast DDR4 8GB (only one cause it wouldn't boot with the other one in I'll fix this when I feel like it for now I just wanna play on it man)
ASUS 6500XT
ASROCK B550M PRO 4
Kingston NV2 M.2 NVME SSD 1TB
haughty burrow
The non-UEFI one is for MBR installs. MBR is old and shouldn't be used.
How did you create the USB installer?
lament totem
How did you create the USB installer?
Through Microsoft's media creation tool
lament totem
The non-UEFI one is for MBR installs. MBR is old and shouldn't be used.
I see
Well I'm completely lost now
My nvme is gone
I followed r/techsupport's wiki guide on installing windows 11
Everything was smooth sailing until I tried to boot my USB
haughty burrow
@lament totem Why are you installing? Or is this a new build?
lament totem
New build
haughty burrow
New SSD as well?
lament totem
Yes
haughty burrow
Re-seat it and make sure it's properly in.
If the BIOS can't see it, it's not properly in or it's faulty.
(Or the motherboard, but a faulty motherboard is rarer)
lament totem
I'll do that, but why would it not appear now? It was fine earlier. I haven't tampered with it
haughty burrow
I'll do that, but why would it not appear now? It was fine earlier. I haven't ta...
If it was fine, you would be able to install Windows.
lament totem
:((
haughty burrow
@lament totem The drive isn't one of these?
Though this issue shouldn't make it disappear from BIOS
haughty burrow
Oh, my bad, I just saw "SN" in the model number which is common with WD.
Don't understand how I missed that it said Kingston
lament totem
Re-seat it and make sure it's properly in.
Is this how it's supposed to be seated without the heatsink?
haughty burrow
Is this how it's supposed to be seated without the heatsink?
You screwed it in right?
lament totem
Yes sir
lament totem
Alright
lament totem
Just remove it and plug it back in to make sure
Still no SSD
haughty burrow
Does the USB boot up?
lament totem
What do you mean by boot up? Like show the windows install screen?
haughty burrow
Yes
lament totem
No :(( that's what I've been trying to get it to do for the past 3 hours
haughty burrow
Just seeing it's more likely the storage or the motherboard.
lament totem
I just installed windows on a USB to boot on my newly built PC. Chucked it in, w...
I've reinstalled windows 11 on the USB and put it back in again since this message
haughty burrow
And if it can't boot to USB either, it's more likely the motherboard. Or both the USB and SSD have an issue.
lament totem
Aahhhhhbgngnfn this is such a headache
Should I just take it to a tech repair shop or something
haughty burrow
If you have a second USB to test with I would do that. If that also can't boot, it's likely the board.
And I don't mean install, I mean just start up
lament totem
If you have a second USB to test with I would do that. If that also can't boot, ...
I do buts it's 2gb
haughty burrow
Needs to be 8GB or larger
lament totem
Yeah
lament totem
How easy is it to operate if I know nothing about it
haughty burrow
Live Windows is a bit shit. Also not sure how large that is.
haughty burrow
How easy is it to operate if I know nothing about it
Well, you are just seeing if the board can boot it. So it only requires you to be able to press the Enter key and see the desktop in Linux.
haughty burrow
Do you get into the installer though?
lament totem
No
lament totem
Just reset myself back to here
haughty burrow
So it's either the motherboard or the USB and NVMe.
lament totem
This sucks
lament totem
So it's either the motherboard or the USB and NVMe.
I see
Do you think anything will change if I try a different windows version
Like windows 10
@haughty burrow
haughty burrow
The installer is basically the same. And I don't like that the SSD is randomly disappearing.
lament totem
I lost it after following these steps
I think
Except the last one about SATA
After I loaded UEFI bios defaults I got them back
haughty burrow
Your drive is NVMe so that setting doesn't really matter
And AHCI isn't needed, it's just a better protocol with SSDs.
lament totem
Will flashing bios do anything
haughty burrow
Worth a shot.