jeffw_00 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) Hi - this is my wife's WIN7 White-box business PC. i7 with Asus B85M motherboard. Runs flawlessly, except it's recently picked up an annoying problem. The boot disk won't appear in any of the options for booting in the BiOS. Using BootitNG I can see that the boot disk is "Bootable" and Active. the auxiliary disk also shows up as "bootable" but not active, and BootitNG mentions that it may not boot WinNt properly. When I boot, I get the "booting windows" screen for several minutes, and then it boots fine. It doesn't matter if it just let it boot, or specifically select the proper boot disk - still takes minutes to come up, and the boot disk doesn't appear as a selection in any bios menus. So how do I get the Bios to recognize the bootdisk (a recent vintage 2TB WD disk) as a boot disk? Thanks VERY Much /j Edited February 4, 2016 by jeffw_00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Does the disk show up in the BIOS's drive listing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffw_00 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) Oh sorry - it doesn't show up in any boot selection menus. it shows up two places 1) there's a "SATA Info" menu - and it's clearly listed there along with the 2nd drive and the DVD-ROm. 2) in the boot -menu- it appears as an option. I just can't -configure- it to be the boot drive as I don't get that option - really weird Edited February 4, 2016 by jeffw_00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffw_00 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 so as it turned out - it was a windows issue. IaStora was taking 5 minutes on boot (as observed in the System Event Log). Since this is for raid, I uninstalled the Intel Rapid Storage application and not only did the boot problem go away, but the Bios identified the boot drive properly. Thanks /j 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Excellent. Thanks for posting back the remedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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