Upgraded to Windows 8.1, and SSD

89ShadowUK · 5 Apr 2014 at 07:46

Hi guys.

So I'm a bit of a noob with this stuff to be honest. But, I enjoy the challenge and love to learn more haha.

I've not really ever installed Windows, especially not to a brand new HDD or anything. But the other day I did.

So originally I was on Windows 7, installed onto a 500GB hard drive. I removed all my drives (as well as identifying the windows one), then installed my SSD and booted up, installed 8.1 to it, and boom, all good (minus my Asus software being a bit of a bane with the LAN drivers again)

All has gone well, and I'm a happy bunny now! Another challenge completed!

But now I'm stuck. For some reason, it will not boot automatically, by that I mean, when I power up, I have to wait for it to ask me to go into BIOS/Set up, then go to my boot menu, and manually select my SSD to get it to go.

It's still a hell of a lot faster than before.

However I can't seem to beat it, my SSD is first in the boot list?

Using@;

Asus Maximus VI Extreme Mobo
Samsung 840EVO 1TB
Windows 8.1

Don't think CPU and GPU are important or relevant, but here they are;

nVidia GeForce GTX 780
Intel i7 4770K 3.50Ghz

32Gb DDR3

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

So far I can only assume there's something in BIOS somewhere either telling it to ask me, or still looking for my Windows 7 drive? But I can't see anything anywhere about them!

Thanks again!

Doomedspeed · 5 Apr 2014 at 08:01

Im sure there's a function that's lets you set it permanently.

Boot order priority or something.

89ShadowUK · 5 Apr 2014 at 08:14

Yeah I seem to remember there being one in there, if I go into the EZ mode, there is a slider there, that allows me to slide each device into order (For some reason it's not showing my 1TB Hard Drive), it shows the Evo as first in the queue there :/

snips86x · 5 Apr 2014 at 08:27

Assuming you have both OS's installed, boot into one of them, use 'msconfig' on RUN and set the default OS using the settings available.

89ShadowUK · 5 Apr 2014 at 08:34

I'm currently using just Windows 8, which is shown in MsConfig as well :/

snips86x · 5 Apr 2014 at 08:36

89ShadowUK said:
I'm currently using just Windows 8, which is shown in MsConfig as well :/

What's with the face? Surely that is how you would expect it to appear?

89ShadowUK · 5 Apr 2014 at 08:42

Because I'm confused, that it's already set like that but doesn't want to boot automatically, haha

DaleTheWhale · 5 Apr 2014 at 08:47

Is it automatically booting to the BIOS first?
Might need to switch it so the SSD overrides it in the boot menu.

TheyCallMeAndy · 5 Apr 2014 at 09:00

ThaReaperGuy said:
Is it automatically booting to the BIOS first?
Might need to switch it so the SSD overrides it in the boot menu.

That sounds like whats happening, check in your BIOS your boot priority and set it again and see if that works, normally works for me.

snips86x · 5 Apr 2014 at 09:01

ThaReaperGuy said:
Is it automatically booting to the BIOS first?
Might need to switch it so the SSD overrides it in the boot menu.

Will normally appear in a numbered list, Ssd to be #1.

89ShadowUK · 5 Apr 2014 at 18:55

Yeah, I've had a look - it does appear to be number one in the boot list!

However I've noticed that when I click the boot menu, it does read E2, where as my other drive is E1? But then in the slider window, the SSD is first!

And yeah, basically it forces me to press F1 to enter the set up, rather than load windows!

GefGz · 5 Apr 2014 at 19:20

I don't think anyone else has asked, but why do you still have the windows installation on your 500GB drive if you've already installed to your SSD?

It's probably conflicting somewhere because it's noticing your original hard drive still has a boot partition, also one thing you might want to do is check the numbering of the SATA ports you're using, try to put the SSD in either port 0 or 1, depending on what it's labeled on your board.

89ShadowUK · 5 Apr 2014 at 20:15

My mistake, forgot to mention I took that HDD out, with Windows 7.

It's connected to the same SATA as the W7 drive was, so it's already in the right one!