Now fixed. It turned out that using a DVI connector from the PC to the monitor for some reason meant that anything that was in the DOS display modes of the pre-Windows phase of boot, wasn’t being displayed at all. I was already in the BIOS but just couldn’t see it! When I connected using the display port output from the video card, the whole thing showed up and I could see everything. I had to go and buy a display port cable to see this! Once I was in the BIOS, I just enabled the SATA channel, launched windows and just added the drive after formatting it. Everything showed up after that!
speedstep
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June 29th, 2021 16:00
Disconnect all drves
Turn on and F2 into bios
Set Sata operation to AHCI
Reboot with the windows drive installed.
If it boots then clone the smaller to larger drive OFFLINE and swap them.
https://www.newegg.com/p/0Y5-000G-00027
Done.
speedstep
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June 29th, 2021 20:00
disconnect ALL Drives
disconnect everything but monitor and keyboard.
Turn OFF
Turn ON
Immediately Press
F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12
HomeyJay
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July 1st, 2021 01:00
Now fixed.
It turned out that using a DVI connector from the PC to the monitor for some reason meant that anything that was in the DOS display modes of the pre-Windows phase of boot, wasn’t being displayed at all. I was already in the BIOS but just couldn’t see it!
When I connected using the display port output from the video card, the whole thing showed up and I could see everything. I had to go and buy a display port cable to see this!
Once I was in the BIOS, I just enabled the SATA channel, launched windows and just added the drive after formatting it. Everything showed up after that!
HomeyJay
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June 29th, 2021 20:00
Thanks but that is the problem. Hitting F2 does nothing as I said in the initial post.