Missing something

NoodleThePoodle

New Member

• Mar 15, 2025

• #1

I am running W11 Home with a Gen12 i5 boots from a NVME m.2, added a SATA HDD as a slave now PC will not boot just goes to BIOS and waits for me to show it where to boot from. When I disconnect the SATA PC boots. I know I am missing something which can you Guys please help

 

johnb35

Administrator

Staff member

• Mar 15, 2025

• #2

Sounds like the sata SSD may be bad but go into the bios and make srue the nvme is set for first boot. Buy my guess is the sata ssd is failing.

 

NoodleThePoodle

New Member

• Mar 16, 2025

• #3

Done the bios bit, still does the same the nvme is a WD 1tb ssd the sata is a sg 1tb not ssd if that helps

 

johnb35

Administrator

Staff member

• Mar 16, 2025

• #4

As I said, it really sounds like the SATA drive is shot. As long as you told the bios to boot from Nvme and saved changes or actually windows boot manager nowadays instead of the sata then its the drive itself.

 

Last edited: Mar 16, 2025

NoodleThePoodle

New Member

• Mar 17, 2025

• #5

Your right thank you, did a disk check drive on its way out, thanks again all working now its out cheers

 

beers

Moderator

Staff member

• Mar 20, 2025

• #6

There's no 'slave' when it's not IDE.

Sometimes if a device times out or hangs then it will seemingly 'freeze' the system unless removed, which is typically a failing drive.

You can try enabling hot swap or using a USB enclosure to access it on a booted system but I imagine success would be limited.

 

NoodleThePoodle

New Member

• Saturday at 3:15 PM

• #7

Thank you I managed to get everything off it. I say slave but it was just a junk file of bits I might need so keep, but its all fixed and running smoothly again I cannot thank you guys enough for your help