I recently installed Windows 11 using Ventoy, but now my motherboard won't boot directly into Windows. I have to boot through the Ventoy USB and then manually select Windows to start. I'm wondering if this issue stems from a partition problem since the hard drive has a 100MB partition marked as "system, active, primary", followed by the main C drive containing Windows, and a 735MB recovery partition. Is there a way to set the correct partition for booting? My motherboard is an Asus ROG Strix X470-F Gaming.
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You should check if your motherboard has a boot menu option that lets you pick the drive directly. It might just be that your BIOS isn't set up to boot from the drive properly. Have you tried that?
In the BIOS, ensure that Windows Boot Manager is set as the primary boot device. Additionally, you can run 'msconfig' in Windows and check the boot tab to make sure the default boot option is correct.
Thanks for the advice! I fixed it just by following the steps in my post edit.
Make sure to look into the other disk-related BIOS settings, like whether RAID is enabled or not. That could affect booting as well.
Thanks for the tip! I actually solved the issue—turned out I had to delete the old partitions and let Windows create them during installation.
Yes, I set the BIOS to boot to that drive and did a manual override, but I just got a message saying 'no boot media detected'.