Windows boot manager not showing up after fresh install

MajorMaccas

MajorMaccas

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Pulling my hair out at this.

I have an old X79 Rampage IV Extreme with 3930K, and a Kingston 60gb ssd. I have reset everything, disconnected everything but the SSD and USB. Tried cleaning and clean all the SSD in diskpart, various options with the CSM etc, even put my 1070 in as the old 460 doesn't have a UEFI BIOS.

My USB is recognised as UEFI: Corsair Voyager SliderX2, and windows installation completes fine, but I never get the windows boot manager option in my bios, and after install if I don't remove the USB it just boots windows setup again, and if I do, I get the usual "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

Can someone please help? This has taken up most of this afternoon, I'm beginning to get emotional!
 
have you made sure that once the USB stick is removed the SSD is the first boot device? check the bios and make sure its trying to boot from it instead of something else

do you have any other USB HDDs or internal HDDs running as well?
 
I am sure you tried this - but if you go into bios on the boot can you select 'windows boot manager' (ie f12 in win 7)
.... I maybe repeating what ED209 said
 
No, the list of boot devices only has the SSD itself, not the Windows Boot Manager. Going into bcdedit and scanos, it finds 0 windows installations, right after it has installed. I downloaded the latest iso from MS, so it's not the installer as I tried an older image and the latest. I honestly don't know what else to try...
 
does the ssd have the 100mb efi partition after the install ?, a pre-requisite for the boot to subsequently work
did you use rufus to create the install usb, could the install usb somehow be responsible
 
Yes, I used Rufus to create it, using the GPT setting etc. That appears with the correct UEFI: Corsair~~ name alongside the Corsair~~~ HDD in the boot list. The SSD looks correct after the installation, it has 4 partitions, primary, reserve, recovery, and ESP. All correct sizes etc. There's just some missing link between the UEFI and the SSD.
 
My original ISO was a pre-anniversary version. I don't think it's anything to do with the windows installation itself, but something missing between the BIOS/UEFI and the installation. It just needs to detect the Windows Boot Manager in the UEFI.
 
So, turns out it was my Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB ssd.... Tried a firmware update, still didn't work. Tried installing on my 1TB Velociraptor, old drive but still a good 225MB/s read/write, and instant success!
 
The SSD is a good two years old. I can't say for certain if it's defective or just incompatible with UEFI. It has 15000+ working hours on it, that's getting on for 2 years online, as it was a cache drive for a storage space in my microserver. Still completely healthy, had been using it in a usb 3 enclosure as a fast 60gb pendrive. It looks like it isn't the only ssd with UEFI troubles, I've found references on google to crucial ssds, and Samsung 830 drives.
 
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