Booting | Fixitfixitfixit Drops & Tech | Page 1

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:35 AM

#

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 4:35 AM

#

is this the laptop one?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:35 AM

#

Yeah

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 4:35 AM

#

and you tried removing that drive

#

and keeping the old one?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:36 AM

#

Yeah

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 4:36 AM

#

nothing shows right?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:36 AM

#

Yeah

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 4:36 AM

#

both are installed right now?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:36 AM

#

Yeah

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 4:36 AM

#

boot into the laptop one

#

and then go into disk management

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:36 AM

#

Ok

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:40 AM

#

quaint geode and then go into disk management

Im in disk manager

#

@quaint geode (sorry for the ping) what do i do i side of the disk manager?

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 4:53 AM

#

can you take a screenshot

#

i wanna see what all are showing up

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 4:54 AM

#

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 4:55 AM

#

@jolly root can you confirm if this means that the boot manager somehow got wiped from the 500 gb drive?

#

@remote jay so far, all i can see is that the boot manager is missing from the E drive

#

are all your files still there?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:01 AM

#

Yeah

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:01 AM

#

can you check to see if any windows files are present

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:01 AM

#

Ok

#

In the e drive?

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:02 AM

#

yep

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:02 AM

#

what

#

primary drive is always C:

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:02 AM

#

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:02 AM

#

Context. the E drive used to be his main drive. then he wanted to use a secondary ssd for more storage

#

after installing the second ssd, which has a windows boot manager, somehow the boot manager for the E drive is missing

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:03 AM

#

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:03 AM

#

i know

#

but he's saying that he's now missing the boot manager that used to be on the E drive after installation of the other ssd

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:04 AM

#

did they reinstall windows or something

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:04 AM

#

the other ssd had windows so basically at one point, there were 2 separate windows boot managers

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:05 AM

#

thats impossible

#

you cant have two windows boot managers

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:05 AM

#

both drives had windows

#

did the windows boot manager merge then?

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:05 AM

#

doubt

#

its windows being windows

#

hopefully it doesn't bork anything, but the best solution is to remove all system files from E drive by reformatting it

#

if you have no intent of using it as a boot drive

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:06 AM

#

he wanted to use that drive as the boot drive

#

but right now, the smaller drive is the boot drdive

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:06 AM

#

It was c drive until i installed tge laptop ssd

#

Then it switched to e drive

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:07 AM

#

remove the new ssd and see if that fixed it

#

E: drive or whatever

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:07 AM

#

he tried that

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:07 AM

#

did it not work

#

so C: drive is the OG drive and E: drive is the new drive

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:07 AM

#

no

#

E was the OG

small lark Jul 20, 2023, 5:08 AM

#

So he tried to boot from E and it's blank is what we are getting?

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:08 AM

#

yes

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:08 AM

#

is CSM on

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:08 AM

#

im guessing windows assigned the "new drive" as the boot drive and complete yeeted the old boot manager from the "OG drive"?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:09 AM

#

jolly root is CSM on

What is csm

small lark Jul 20, 2023, 5:09 AM

#

quaint geode im guessing windows assigned the "new drive" as the boot drive and complete yeet...

It doesn't do that automatically

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:09 AM

#

It's a setting in BIOS.

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:09 AM

#

compatability support module

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:09 AM

#

Do i go check?

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:09 AM

#

you would need to go back to bios, it should be under the boot tab

#

yes

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:10 AM

#

Let me see

#

Its off

#

Do i turn it on?

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:11 AM

#

possible that the "OG drive" used a legacy install?

#

markus?

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:11 AM

#

maybe

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:12 AM

#

enabling CSM might make the boot manager reappear if that's the case

#

@remote jay what windows did you have on the old drive

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:13 AM

#

10 pro

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:14 AM

#

it doesnt matter what version

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:14 AM

#

I turned csm on and it still didnt appear

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:14 AM

#

if the windows install was installed with CSM on then CSM needs to be enabled

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:14 AM

#

did you reboot the system?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:14 AM

#

Yeah

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:14 AM

#

after enabling CSM?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:14 AM

#

Yeah

#

Wait let me try again

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:15 AM

#

jolly root if the windows install was installed with CSM on then CSM needs to be enabled

it's been 2 years since i touched anything related to CSM and Boot manager lol

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:15 AM

#

Wait

#

Its back

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:16 AM

#

so windows was installed while CSM was enabled on the old drive

#

are you gonna try booting into the old drive?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:17 AM

#

Yeah

#

The drive works now

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:17 AM

#

this means that we might need to convert the windows install from CSM to UEFI

#

I know there is a way to do this in command prompt but i'm not sure what the safest way to do it is

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:18 AM

#

Its not on boot option but its on boot override

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:19 AM

#

Did it boot into windows properly?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:19 AM

#

Yeah

#

I think i got it to work

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:19 AM

#

well which one do you want to keep

#

just reformat the drive you don't care about

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:20 AM

#

reformating gets rid of all files on the drive

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:20 AM

#

yeah

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:20 AM

#

How do i reformate it

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:20 AM

#

in disk management

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:21 AM

#

doesn't modern cpus use TPM which requires CSM to be disabled and secure boot to be enabled?

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:21 AM

#

What do i do after im in disk manager

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:21 AM

#

TPM isn't a requirement until windows 11

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:22 AM

#

just wondering cause he said that he upgraded cpu and gpu

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:22 AM

#

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition-bbb8e185-1bda-ecd1-3465-c9728f7d7d2e#:~:text=click Computer Management.-,In the left pane%2C under Storage%2C select Disk Management.,and then select OK again.

Create and format a hard disk partition - Microsoft Support

Learn about creating and formatting hard disk partitions in Windows.

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:22 AM

#

would it be better to also convert the drive to UEFI at this time?

#

cause resize bar requires csm to be disabled right?

jolly root Jul 20, 2023, 5:23 AM

#

no

#

idk

#

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/convert-an-existing-windows-10-installation-from/aa8c2de3-460b-4a8c-b30b-641405f800d7

#

i just have it on

quaint geode Jul 20, 2023, 5:24 AM

#

#

@remote jay basically what we are saying is that for now, you need to keep CSM on, after reformatting the drive you want to use as extra storage.

remote jay Jul 20, 2023, 5:25 AM

#

Oh ok

#Booting