New SSD booted to Windows perfectly yesterday, but today BIOS says "No bootable devices found" (though drive is detected)
Hey!
Caveat upfront: I'm relatively new to tinkering with my PC so bear with me as I might not explain things as well as I could...
I couple of days ago I was playing Forza Horizon 6 on my PC when it suddenly crashed and a number of application error boxes appeared including the message: "The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of 0xc000000e."
I then got stuck in a persistent "Preparing Automatic Repair" crash loop and I followed some guidance online to attempt to format or wipe my Seagate SSD but I believe it went into a write-protection lock.
I replaced the faulty Seagate drive with a WD_BLACK 1TB NVMe SSD. I used a Windows installation USB, successfully installed a fresh copy of Windows 11, and restored my cloud profile backup. The PC worked flawlessly all evening, downloading apps and restarting normally.
I turned the PC on today, and it booted straight into the BIOS. Under the BIOS "Storage Information", the motherboard physically sees and lists the "WD_BLACK" drive. However in the Boot Priority menu it states "No bootable devices found."
I have unplugged the USB drive and reverted some of the BIOS settings to normal but I'm still stuck in this loop, and feeling like I'm up shit creek without a paddle.
Any advice from this sub would be massively helpful! Appreciate I haven't covered everything above so I can provide more info. My PC spec is below:
- Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (BIOS Ver. 3636)
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (6-Core Processor @ 3.70GHz)
- RAM: 32GB (2 x 16GB) Corsair DDR4 @ 2133MHz (Installed in slots DIMM_A2 and DIMM_B2)
- Current storage (Boot Drive): WD_BLACK SN7100 1TB NVMe SSD (M.2_1 slot)
- Previous storage: Seagate Firecuda 510 Series M.2 NVMe SSD
- OS: Windows 11 Home
Edit: I have just plugged the USB back in and rebooted and it's booted up normally. Not sure how to fix, but hopefully this is useful Intel?