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Hi there. I have an Asus R416S laptop on which there is zero information on the internet. It was working super slow, so I decided to format the SSD (https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitio…) and have a clean Windows 10 installation. After formatting the SSD, wh.en selecting the hard drive, windows shows an error: (https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitio…) Alright. I go into BIOS but under BOOT, the SSD doesn’t show up. I can only see my bootable Windows USB which is set to Boot Priority #1. If the SSD is disabled, I can’t enable the drive because the bios is SO bare bones that I can’t Change SATA Controller Mode as there is no option like that in the BIOS. Resetting the BIOS to default of optimised settings also didn’t make the SSD appear. I created a portable windows installation on an USB and booting windows through the USB, I can see the SSD in Windows. I can copy to it and open whatever I have copied on it. I thought it might be a firmware problem.. Downloaded new and old SanDisk SSD tools and the SSD Dashboard but those didn’t recognize the SSD. At this point I am stumped. Does anyone have any ideas what could I do?
Hi @tomekks , Just wondering if you can use a Win 10 USB recovery disc to boot the laptop and then when in the Windows Recovery Environment menu area select Troubleshoot > Advanced > UEFI Firmware settings and see if it gives you any options at all. If you haven’t already got one, you can create a Win 10 USB recovery drive from any known working Win 10 computer. All you need is an 8GB USB flashdrive and about 40-60 minutes of time. Go to Control Panel > Recovery in the “host” computer and find the link to create the recovery drive. If you can alter more settings this way here is a link to the drivers and firmware etc for the laptop. Just select Win 10 as the OS.
(click on image to enlarge for better viewing) The Asus R416SA User Guide certainly shows more options in BIOS than what you are describing. (p.77 in the guide for example)
Is the SSD Sata 3. Although extremely rare I have had a customer machine not work with an ssd because it was Sata 3 and the laptop was Sata 2
The issue is finally solved. A friend who is a technician solved by reinstalling the BIOS and having the proper OEM Windows installation available. It seems, I was hopeless to fix it on my own. Thank you for the help!
