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Hey all,

I just finished my build yesterday with the MSI B350M Tomahawk. It works fine, but I have a problem getting it to load an OS. When I tap the f11 key during POST, to get into the boot menu, it takes me there and I have about 4 drives connected. It shows up as the boot drive that I'm trying to use, a partition of it, my dvd drive, and my ssd. When I try the drive, it shows up as a black screen with white text saying " REBOOT AND SELECT PROPER BOOT DEVICE OR INSERT MOOT MEDIA IN SELSCTED BOOT DEVICE AND PRESS A KEY" (I think that it goes without saying that it doesn't help the problem when I press a key). When I try the partition, my monitor goes black for a second, and it puts me back into the menu. Does anybody know what's going on?

Thanks in advance :)

P.S.- I have formatted the drive to FAT 32, and i'm running a mac right now. Also, I'm trying to run SteamOS, if that is relevant
 
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Ok so lets say you have a single hdd in your computer. You install an OS like windows or linux. The installation disc creates for you two partitions automatically on your HDD. The tiny one (MBs in size) is the boot partition. It will govern your boot sequence (what gets loaded first), where OS is loaded and so on. The bigger partition is the one your OS will install on.
Now lets say you get a new drive, like an SSD and you want to install your OS on a new drive now. You delete everything off of your HDD (but of course you've deleted only stuff off of the big partition that the OS was on). Unless you also made sure to delete the boot partition, merge it back with the big one, and then fresh install your system on the ssd so it doesn't...
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You don't mention which drive contains your actual OS.
As to your issue, you probably used to have an OS on a different drive, so the boot partition is still on it, while your os is installed on a different drive (ssd?). You would select whatever device has the OS, not the boot partition.
 
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The USB Stick has the OS on it. Other than that, I do not know the difference between the partition and the normal drive. Could you explain what you mean by that?
 
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Ok so lets say you have a single hdd in your computer. You install an OS like windows or linux. The installation disc creates for you two partitions automatically on your HDD. The tiny one (MBs in size) is the boot partition. It will govern your boot sequence (what gets loaded first), where OS is loaded and so on. The bigger partition is the one your OS will install on.
Now lets say you get a new drive, like an SSD and you want to install your OS on a new drive now. You delete everything off of your HDD (but of course you've deleted only stuff off of the big partition that the OS was on). Unless you also made sure to delete the boot partition, merge it back with the big one, and then fresh install your system on the ssd so it doesn't detect any prior boot partitions, the boot partition will still sit on your HDD and not on your SSD. So you look at the boot sequence, it lists you a bunch of locations and asks you what to load. If you choose your boot partition, that's not your OS, so of course it'll fail. However, you say your OS is on your USB stick and not installed yet? Do you have an OS installed on any drive already? Are you dual booting?
 
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I just understood the problem. Thanks!
 
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