Hardisk SATA M2 boot options Asus

[AndyPRK]

Just over a year ago I upgraded my PC to have a solid state HDD and fitted an M2 to the mother board.

I now want to boot from the spinny SATA HDD (which I've been using as a data drive, but still has windows on it)

I couldn't select to boot from SATA only boot from Ethernet ports (WTF)

So I took the M2 out. And still can't seam to get back to being able to boot from SATA ?
What am I doing wrong?

Do these SATA hard drives have jumpers like IDE to set to master. I can't remember. Maybe I need to add a jumper?
I'm sure its bootable


Motherboard Asus H1110M-A/M.2

 

[RandomGrinch]

It should be selectable in BIOS.
Was the SATA drive your original drive before the M2?
No need for jumpers with SATA!

 

[AndyPRK]

Yes it was.

can’t select it in the F8 boot up menu or bios. thought it wasn’t very good at the time

 

[RandomGrinch]

With the M2 drive back in, can you run msconfig.
Under the boot tab, is your SSD listed as another OS?

 

[AndyPRK]

I’ll check.
I think you hit on the problem.
The HDD isn’t the same bootable one.
It’s probably the other one in there that’s disconnected.
I’ll have a look in the evening.

 

[AndyPRK]

Well I plugged in the correct spiny drive pressed F8 and it booted from it. Silly me!

 

[RandomGrinch]

Well done
At least you found the problem before doing anything desperate!