Dear manjaro fellows, I am having difficulties setting up my dual-boot.
Please notice: I am not very experienced with manjaro. Feel free to talk to me like I am 5 years old to avoid any confusion on my end
PC/Background: In February 2020 I bought my very first desktop pc and decided to go with manjaro from the get go. Everything worked perfectly and I was very happy in my manjaro kingdom. However my inner piece got disrupted as I started going to university in october I will need Windows for university in February (and also for gaming with anticheat clients).
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 6x 3.60GHz
- Mainboard: MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max
- SSD: Silicon Power P34A80 1TB, M.2
- GPU: Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G, 8GB GDDR6
My Plan: After research I wanted to install windows on a separate SSD so I bought another Silicon Power SSD with 2TB. After installing windows my plan was to update grub so I can choose the OS on startup.
The problem: I disconnected the existing SSD and connected the new SSD. I made a bootable Windows-10-USB with Windows Media Creation Tool. I plugged in the USB and started the CPU. Windows Installation showed up, I entered the product key. Then the new SSD wasnât showing up/wasnât recoignized as installation location. I searched the internet and found it as common problem with my mainboard. I manually added the drivers for finding the SSD to the USB-Stick. But, when I boot with the USB now nothing but a black screen comes up. The monitor starts and shows nothing but a blank screen the whole time.
What I tried:
- I made a new bootable USB, twice with Windows Media Creation Tool, once with Rufus
- I switched the USB-Stick in the process
- I tried every video port on my gpu and mainboard because I thought the video output could have changed
- I wanted to go to UEFI/BIOS but - as nothing shows up besides a black screen - there wasnât an option to do it
- I searched the web for the âusb boot windows 10 new pcâ problem. It wasnât very helpful. Some mentioned removing/resetting the CMOS battery but I didnât want to do that - as I canât understand the consequences
Where I stand now: I disconnected my new SSD and reconnected my old SSD and returned to my perfectly working manjaro (during this process I noticed the boot menu option doesnât show up on starting in this constellation as well).
I hope there is a potentially easy fix to my problem because: Isnât it like a have a brand new cpu and want to install Windows 10 for the first time? Why is the bootable USB not recognized anymore? This problem exceeds my skills