Please Select A Proper Boot Device And Restart

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by JosephF, Jun 29, 2016.

  1. JosephF

    JosephF Private E-2

    First off hi everyone, this is my firs thread/post on Major Geeks.

    I'm having problems with a newly built rig.

    I bought these components:

    CPU: Core i3 6100
    MB: Gigabyte H110S2 DDR3
    RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
    SSD: SanDisk SSD
    PSU: Antec VP-600P
    Case: CM Elite 344

    Once I placed all the components together and installed windows. After the first reboot I get the message "Reboot and select proper boot device". The thing is that the bios recognizes my ssd as well as the USB I installed windows 10 pro from (legal copy of course). I've tried so many things, including the attempts of repairing boot loader (cmd, bootsect and mbr commands). Nothing helped.

    I decided to reinstall the OS, however, it won't install any more and it gets stuck at unpacking files at random percentage. Sometimes at 56%, sometimes at 91%, it is different every time. I ran memtest86+ to check the integrity of my RAM (for 10 hours straight). Currently I have no where to check my SSD as my laptop is with my brother until later next week.

    Has anyone had issues like this and is there any help for my new rig?

    Thank you.
     
  2. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Are you leaving the USB plugged in on reboot? Remove it. Did you complete setup for Win 10 (all the steps after initial installation)?
     
  3. JosephF

    JosephF Private E-2

    Yes and no :). I did remove it once the installation was finished however, I put it back in after the problems started since I needed to access Windows setup because of the recovery.

    Yes, windows completed the installation the first time. It went all the way, all of the drivers were in place, I downloaded chrome, panda AV, activated Windows, etc. Not too sure though, but I think that everything started once I rebooted the PC for graphics driver installation to take effect.
     
  4. JosephF

    JosephF Private E-2

    I know it has been some time now, but here is an update on my problem. I don't know for what reason, but the boot partition that windows 10 creates during installation, has gone haywire and all of the boot files have been corrupted. I had to rebuild the entire boot sector.
    Should anyone run into similar problems, here is the solution I found and applied:
    Start windows installation from a bootable usb;
    Go to Troubleshoot/aadvanced options/CMD

    in CMD type these commands in this order:
    - diskpart
    - list disk
    - sel disk 0 (Select your boot disk)
    - list vol - here you will se a list of all the volumes on the disk, select the EFI partition ~100MB - that's where windows stors Boot files.
    - sel volume 2 - for example 2, mine was two but it might be different on your PC
    - assign letter=k:
    - exit

    Then type these
    - cd /d v:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\
    - bootrec /fixboot

    And finally these
    - ren BCD BCD.old
    - bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-us /s v: /f ALL

    And voila it's alive again :)
     

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