How to stop MSI motherboard from trying to boot to your external hard drive.

A lot of MSI boards will default to booting to external storage. This video shows you on at least one MSI board how to stop this from happening.

[@Stratocaster42]

For anyone else who doesnt have the BBS Configuration, this is what worked for me. 1. Go to Advanced mode, then click Settings, then click Advanced (just above Boot) 2. There should be an option like "Boot Mode: UEFI" - click that and change it to CSM This worked for me. I think it was trying to boot from a non existent external harddrive. Let me know if this helped you because I was three seconds away from launching my PC into the concrete before figuring it out. Pls pin this so people see

[@casualintrovert207]

I love how this video gets recommended to me a week after I was having this EXACT issue

[@VexhatesGaming]

Same

[@alphameepmemes4652]

BRO SAME LMAO

[@dalma.jesse_]

i’m doing my first build, on the debug led the BOOT light remains lit and the computer won’t show on my monitor. what can i do?

[@MucheruNjaga]

Sir you are my hero! Your clear and concise instructions literally helped me recover years of hours work save on my pc. Thank you again 👍🏾

[@4000marcdman]

Name of video wasn't what I was looking for, but it sure solved my problem and straight to the point. Thanks.

[@potatomaaan1757]

Thank you so much for this! I was trying to dual boot ubuntu and windows 10 but the board defaulted to windows and not to GRUB. Now I can happily live without having to mash F11 on startup every time

[@24321619]

I was trying to dual boot ubuntu and windows 10 that can be nightmare with some MSI boards!

[@idenrose1306]

Bless you man, I was stuck trying going through a million different settings/websites. Thanks for the great help!

[@wannabemechanics21]

Thank you so much I didn't know how to fix this issue and i wasted 4 hours and still couldn't figure it out but after watching your vid and booting into my main it worked

[@tafareactions2823]

Thank you very much, I have been struggling with this problem for a long time and finally I have solved it thanks to you

[@Alex96194]

I didn’t have your issue but I didn’t know how to change the boot drives and select my internal ones. Thanks for the video.

[@Johnnyohn]

Was exactly what I needed, Thanks!

[@TinyMaths]

Thank you. I had issues where my video editing was causing my PC to suddenly shut down while rendering. Then it would try to boot to the secondary HDD when I tried to go back in. Had no idea that this was actually what was going on but this video made me remember that I got that hard drive from a headless (spare) computer that I was networked to but decided to just transfer the hard drive to my current computer. It was trying to boot from 'that' hard drive. Although my menus differ from yours things were quite self explanatory once I got in and I've disabled the other drive from being a boot device. Problem solved.

[@novicatodosijevic4174]

I have same issue how u fix that

[@Aspect-Fenix]

This is the only video that helped me in 2023 😂 thanks so much dude

[@DarachaMusic]

Never would have found that I literally just had to scroll down thank you so much

[@musachi5999]

You saved me!!! I thought my M.2 was dead.. thank you!! For some reason it was disabled and it would just load straight to BIOS every time. You legend!!

[@kulkat1821]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I thought I had to completely reset my PC, but you helped me fix the problem!!!

[@onurgaming3321]

Wow thank you so much! this helped me so much I wasted a lot time trying to figure this out

[@ThatPhatGuyTony]

3 year old video and its the best one I've seen explaining this

[@noahcouch5211]

seriously thank you this was so annoying i got a new m.2 and there are no videos that actually do what you need so thank you

[@nando2593]

Great video! I had been looking for that list to change the boot order for a while.

[@biighuskii7737]

Thank you so much. I'm new to pc and I've been upgrading parts here and there slowly and adding storage to my pc. For the life of me I could not figure out how to switch to my hdd drive so thank you 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@Magazanga]

Although what you showed in the video didn't solve my problem it did lead me on the right path to fixing it thank you very much

[@alliuent]

Literally what I needed thank you. My boyfriends computer randomly turned off while I was in a valorant game and then gave me the “preparing to repair” screen of death but I managed to turn it back on with out this but now I know this for when it happens again

[@hamed4212]

my screen is orange and white stripes can yo help me plssssss

[@alliuent]

@@hamed4212 the screen may be broken? I have no clue but how you describe it sounds like it. Sorry man 😭 I don’t know much about screens or computers

[@MikeJw-je4xk]

Thank You Michael. This is my fix! The msi meg x570 ace motherboard bios manual section is garbage.

[@skylerlee1135]

2yrs later this video still helps

[@AlexBell1991]

Life saver! I recently updated my bios and changed my processor and couldn't boot into windows! Thank you sir!

[@ryandougherty3773]

letsssss rideeee. I had just updated my bios and couldn’t get a proper boot. only blue screens. Did this and now i’m back ripping verdansk w the fellas. absolute life saver my guy

[@phillherup]

Omg thank you so much! I almost had a heart attack cause my mobo wasnt displaying anything!

[@isaacsteuer9713]

Thank you! It’s so horrible how it doesn’t show you all the options to boot to.

[@bamz101studio]

Thank you is an understatement right now. Am so grateful Sir. You save our Business. Regards

[@matz0rz4o8]

This was direct and to the point ! Switched cables and something went wrong I thought I lost it all .. thank u I had the same exact bios lol 😂 that’s all I had to do

[@main_tak_becus6689]

Happened to me this evening. I updated bios and bam, it tried to boot from my secondary hdd (internal). I unplugged the secondary hdd and it booted right into Windows normally. Thanks for the guide! I will replug the hdd.

[@MMWGR1980]

Thanks dude you saved me a lot of headache

[@SalvageData]

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[@PR0N0G0D7]

For older Motherboards (I have a B450 Tomahawk Max) just switch from UEFI to CSM (In the EZ settings, towards the bottom) , it uses both UEFI and Legacy so you I was able to select the SSD with my windows and make it boot #1, it also doubles the boot options

[@villadshp4216]

How do i do that. This issue is happening to me and i have a b450

[@nelekubheka1]

Your comment just saved me 🙏🏽

[@smurflike4543]

Ou shit.. god bless you bro

[@zulqarnains6840]

thx u man u save my friend life. I hope ur have a long life.

[@slvrsr8]

You’re an angle

[@Kenjileahy]

You just saved me a headache in 2024. Thank you kindly good sir, hope you are well!

[@cheezer137]

Thank you. This video saved me from all the google and youtube videos i looked up. My issue was i didnt see my new samsung nvme under fixed boot order priority but i knew the card work as i wss using it before i cloned my hdd onto it. When i went into eufi hard disk drive bbs priority sure enough there it was. Set nvme as boot drive 1 and reset the pc and now pc loads and is ready to go in maybe a second with all start up software going. Where before i swear it would take like 2 minutes before the computer would even let me click anything and load and not freeze for a few seconds

[@xn0gaming]

They also like to boot from internal drives. I still have my optical drives (DVD / Bluray etc.), and I regularly get problems, because even with boot priority changed, it still wanted to boot from these drives. I had to disconnect them, so it booted from the SSD with Win10 on it. This was really awful.

[@ermalmanushaqa1632]

Finaly some help F…Hell ,i have tried everything on my Katana Gf76 .it kept booting on Dos mode instead of windows. This video helped a lot and solved the issue.Tnx

[@joshuacroft3646]

thank you normal priority list swap wasn't working saved me all kinds of headache

[@Toxic-kp1gb]

u think u can help me out with this problem cause i’ve been trying so long but it keeps taking me to the click bios screen

[@matthewtracy5816]

You just saved my PC from an axe to the CPU. It and I thank you x10000!!!!

[@sunmoonstars8471]

Mike, I began looking at some of your how to vidos and would like to make a suggestion. If possible, zoom or enlarge the screen your making a video of so we can read and see what your doing. I am retired and a pilot and want to purchase a computer and do X-plane. I was trying to follow the download add one and how to out them in the right place. First I did not hear you say where to download them to? I usually send to download folder. I tried to watch carefully the next step where you were directing and could not see. I just hear you say put it here as you were highlighting over a bunch of folders. Please more details. I am 72 but still mentally quick but without details step by step I am lost. It would be nice to find a channel where I can stay just with you and not have to such so many other videos. But if your purpose us to sell computers then I understand your purpose. I have got some good info which I thank you for.

[@aswegamer0652]

This helped me a lot, thank you

[@Tscendrik]

Thanks, that solved my problem!

[@lottet2717]

Very clear, thank you!

[@markusrask-larsen8717]

Love u man had this problem but u saves me ❤️

[@kenplays017]

Thank you so much man 🙋🏻‍♂️ but you should also mentioned if boot option 1 is the m.2 SSD then option 2 should not be touch but yeah it worked after i did that

[@anthonyv1243]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THANK YOU MY PC KEEPS BOOTING INTO MSI BIOS AND IDK HOW TO FIX BUT NOW I DO THANK YOU

[@leandroespinoza3478]

I don’t even get the last option it just says my model is for my ssd is called AMD-RAID

[@decorianpittman1157]

Same

[@jaspervn4722]

Figure it out?

[@fortnitemasterm5001]

what did you do how do you fix it

[@Two_Lock]

thank you, my pc was booting from a old windows 10 verson on one hard drive rather than my windows 11 on my ssd.

[@moinahmed3513]

This was a saviour, I was about to reset my os

[@IzahBlack]

LITERALLY A GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS WAS SUCH A SIMPLE FIX I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤

[@Vested_Investor]

May we have another? Please show us how to install the I225L LAN Driver on MSI's PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 board so that Windows 11 will install (it needs internet access to complete its install).

[@g4b1k4s6]

Thank you so much for the help!! 👍

[@Shngster]

Beautiful had the same issue but it’s fixed now

[@chrisreed36]

Maaaan! Thanks for the video! I knew the issue was my sata ssd taking priority over my NVME m.2 after a bios update. Unfortunately I went ahead and unplugged the sata ssd before seeing this video. But good to know for the future. Thanks

[@MrMagic785]

You earned the like man. Thanks for the informatikn

[@Dracer0185]

Absolute legend.

[@darwin_therealest]

Thank you so much new to computers and I started to panic after doing an update 😮 😅

[@lollol542]

Followed this but still hangs because it thinks it's trying to boot from a different drive despite the option of external being completely disabled...even reseated my cmos but to no avail..any ideas

[@eventhorizon88]

Thanks, really did help!

[@gloryhole6806]

@michael brown I don’t have the uefi hard disk drive, I have the same problems as you, but I just don’t have the same boot as you. Please help me

[@Haji79]

when I switch to UEFI, IT won't give me the option that you have at the bottom(UEFI Hard disk BBS priorities). I have an MSI z370 pro Carbon motherboard. any idea how to fix it?

[@user-ko4ji6cu2d]

i had this problem but with 4 hours of troubleshooting i might of found a fix for you guys! some of you anyway. if you are using a ssd from an older pc like me chances are the ssd is older meaning it has a different boot compatibility. What you want to do is, change from UEFI to CSM or legacy and it should now boot your preinstalled windows 10 on your ssd

[@lore2874]

@@user-ko4ji6cu2d thank you so much bro, I was stuck. ❤

[@gyulakasznai3165]

@@user-ko4ji6cu2d You just saved all of my important files, bcs i was about to reinstall windows... Thank you!

[@jackimo8613]

@@user-ko4ji6cu2d thank u so much I was stuck for at least 5 hours trying to figure out why windows wasn’t booting. Your the best man! Thank u so much

[@jordoe96]

@@user-ko4ji6cu2d thank you so much man!! I was also stuck with this

[@fynnlucaac]

You saved my day, thanks a lot.

[@arif8205]

So what does one do if the “BBS hard disk properties” tab isn’t even part of their boot settings?

[@jmantoney5908]

Thanks this helped a lot 👍

[@Littleph]

Thanks my broo, u saved my life today

[@jesusninja2401]

I did this in my Gigabyte motherboard. It worked for a couple of weeks. Now suddenly if I change the storage drive to disable boot, restart the pc it goes right back. It is not keeping the settings. All other settings are fine and I changed out the cmos battery and it still does it. Reverts right back to trying to boot from the system and storage drive.

[@ShahadatHossain3031]

Thanks a lot. Worked for me

[@palash7226]

In my B550 gaming plus mobo it show only windows lgoo and got stuck :( .I used a bootable pendrive.Any solution?

[@38ocin]

Hello can you do a video to boot van usb to make clean setup instal wimdows?

[@TheMsr47gaming]

Make sure everything is put back right and the gpu has power, I was stuck for 15 minutes trying to figure out what was going on.

[@rowni]

Thank you so much!!

[@rxahs]

I recently upgraded GPU, CPU, SSD, and my mother board which is a B550 TOMAHAWK. But the problem I have is that I cant bypass the BIOS screen anyway I can fix it?? because I have no idea what to do.

[@GlennPerdicaro]

THNX Alot, very iusefull!!!

[@cremlin9459]

What should I do if the UEIF BBS properties does not show up ?

[@ryfyyt171]

The problem is i cant find the bbs configiration

[@talanotheim1762]

Same how did you fix this

[@AFireInAsa]

Did you figure it out? I can see my SSD in the BIOS but can't see this option.

[@alexahadi139]

Same here

[@ItsWuLx]

Me neither

[@alexahadi139]

@@ItsWuLx try disconnecting all drives to force booting on one, I done loads of random things until it booted

[@rodhester2166]

thanks. I have trouble stopping the raid thing.. I just want on boot drive and two storage drives but everytime i add one it automatically adds all those reserved partitions.. ugh.

[@Bluejay8633]

Similar issue and it’s not working for me, installed a new ssd and transfered ALL files over and it has a bootable OS and it’s refused to boot from it unless I hit f11 and force it through boot options. I’ve tried so many options with the boot order

[@bogdan3626]

Thanks, hero!

[@christopherp63]

Fixed!! Thanks so much

[@L3m0nSharki3]

How do I get rid of it? Its constantly showing up and staring, I need it to go away.

[@190herefor]

Hello. If i go to setting and then to boot i have 2 options on the bottom 1 only with windows boot and the other has like 5 uefi stuff.. any idea why?

[@allanxavier3903]

Hi. I have a military class 4 msi, h81m-p32l motherboard. There is a problem in the Windows update and it was blue screen. blocking access to bios, restoring the bios, when I install Windows 10 it crashes, and gives the blue screen. I do not know what to do

[@XeroSenji]

You’re a god for helping us humanity

[@cazic3199]

Thank you! I was about to lose my mind about this!

[@Toxic-kp1gb]

u think u can help me out with this problem cause i’ve been trying so long but it keeps taking me to the click bios screen

[@cazic3199]

@@Toxic-kp1gb fixed it already? Otherwise i can try to help tomorrow

[@Toxic-kp1gb]

@@cazic3199 yes bro i fixed it my pc is working fine now ! thanks

[@cazic3199]

@@Toxic-kp1gb nice! :)

[@followthewhiterabbit7559]

You're a saviour !!!

[@crimsoncorpse_8102]

Im just trying this now, i have a MSI pc, that was given to me from my stepdad. Unfortunately he isnt here to fix it and ive had problems with it for ages. I did try this, but when i went to advanced and BBS order setting, it didnt have the Windows option, its like if its deleted it. Ive been trying for 2 weeks to fix it, but nothings worked. Ive already spend $360 on getting it to work, just to get the Select Boot message again 😩

[@fabrizioandreucci5664]

is it possible to disable hard disks through the uefi ? got the b450 gaming pro carbon ac .i have to install w10 on my old ssd and i read that i have to unplug all the other drives (got 3 other hd )

[@yaronbendek1]

I have the bazooka motherboard, I did what you showed on the video I see the first starting window and after that black screen what can be the issue? The computer stays on but I see nothing ☹️ please help!!!!

[@Novagunner]

Helped me!!! Thanks

[@Informerick]

I love you so Much! Thank you

[@rose_d_mary]

thanks for showing that, they shouldn’t hide it behind a scrollable list of 100 useless things !!

[@jakemicheal1235]

I know this year ago but is there any help with error code 0x8007025d. I'm using the flash drive method to install windows 10 on a new computer just built and I'm not finding anything online for a couple to fix the issue. Any ideas you can bestow on to me?

[@ericzajimovic7908]

Hello! When I go to CSM it’s running perfectly but I want to enable secure boot so I switch to UEFI then the pc keeps launching BIOS and the option “UEFI hard disk drive bbs priorities” disappear. What should I do?

[@Gslidesmedia]

Thank you sir!

[@estiakahamed432]

Thanks man, Its works for me

[@DrizzyDoggo]

That specifically doesn't happen but when I boot while the external SSD is plugged in it will freeze and I won't even be able to get to the bios to see. I don't have a MSI motherboard but I have GIGABYTE and even if I unplug the external storage to get to bios and plug it back in while I'm in the bios, it'll freeze again, it doesn't show up anywhere either so I can't change anything for the external storage. Is there a way to fix it on windows. When I also boot into windows it won't freeze but it'll detect that the external SSD is plugged in but the system won't be able to check volume information to see what's inside or do anything to the storage so is mine bricked? I know about file transfer so worst case is I have to buy another 100$ external SSD but I didn't think it was bricked.

[@youngcuhseniorfence9426]

Thanks a lot good sir

[@marijamiletic6080]

Hello, I have this problem but I can’t see the option UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities you indicated, and I can’t access the windows. Can you give some advice? It’s frustrating 😅 Thank you very much 🙏

[@entique4216]

I did that but weeks later the 1st boot option changed to HDD for some reason