ArcheBishop

Ah, this is an easy one. I bought 5, 4 lane USB hubs from amazon warehouse a year ago, and I have absolutely no use for them.

I agree with the PSU being the primary issue, WereCatF made a great post that you should try out. I would try the PSU paperclip test on it before buying another PSU there is a good guide on YouTube for it.

I don't know if he can boot into that, the only thing he said was whenever he went from legacy to Windows 7, it said that it can't find a Bootable OS on either drive. So I'm assuming that it isn't working for 8 either.

I had a feeling that it wouldn't work well, but he did have them set up like that before he did the update, perhaps the update just couldn't verify the version of Windows 7, because he had a drive with Windows 8 on it? Maybe the drive was running 8 in the background, and caused a conflict with the core data files for Windows 7 while updating?

This is a bit of a long story. My father-in-law installs security systems for the state we live in, he is pretty good at general PC troubleshooting. Anywho, one day he got an update for his Windows 7 HP Envy, it runs 2 separate SSD's. He uses it for work, it has back up information and passwords for his clients. He tried installing an update for Windows 7, as usual it restarted and a black screen appeared and said (reference picture below). He decided to get a recovery drive for it, and see if he could just 'reboot' his OS. It didn't work because a new drive has to be formatted. He came to me about it, and I told him that it has to be how the update was installed, I figured at first that when the update was trying to authenticate the core windows files it couldn't find the Sys32 directories, and just dumped it somewhere else on the drive, but I'm unsure because I have not been able to see his laptop yet. As of today he messed around with it and wants to have Windows 7 on one drive and Windows 8 on another, I thought alright, as long as you individually install them without both drives connected it should be alright, but now whenever he tries to switch to legacy, then turns it off it says that it cannot find a Bootable OS. Do you think that I should just reset the CMOS and change the boot order of the drives to start fresh? Then use data recovery software to get his important information back? As I said, I am unsure of the issues at this point because I have yet to see his computer to compile the issue entirely. I just wanted some sort of insight before I look into the issue. Sorry for the long post and thank you for suggestions.

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