wordsmor.blogg.se - No boot options in bios

Turned the system on this morning, and for the first time noticed that the Boot Device led on the motherboard was lit(red). I also had backed up the original EFI data, and subsequently replaced it as a final test. And I did rebuild the two partitions, which succeeded yet did not resolve the issue. If it was EFI partition related, the system wasn't confirming either way.

Using the old MBR commands(in hopes it would force the Windows startup repair to recognize and fix a problem).

Removing CMOS battery and replacing with a new one - my HDD started showing up again after doing this.

bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-us /s vz /f ALL.

sel vol 1 (note that Diskpart states EFI partition is 'hidden').

Next I tried to repair the EFI with Diskpart in the shell: It said it was not able to fix any problems. dev/sda4-ntfs-/media/sda4-450.00MiB-327.71MiB-122.29MiB-hidden,diagĪs I am able to boot Windows installation from USB, I tried the standard startup repair. dev/sda2 (exclamation mark) Microsoft reserved partition-unknown file system-no mount point-128.00MiB-unused spaced-msftres

Gparted print out (note dev/sda2 apparently that is normal behavior) : I went into Partition Magic/Gparted and confirmed :

Boot menu has no UEFI/EFI (or Windows Boot Manager) entries anymore.

Gave the 'reboot and select proper boot device' message

Only SSD 1(Windows boot) and SSD 2 were listed in BIOS HDD 1 and HDD 2 were not visible.

In short, I need to get the system/BIOS to allow UEFI booting of the SSD.Ĭomputer started up today with default BIOS settings.