Please help please please harddrive error I don’t even know

[Jack Dvorak]

I tried to put my laptop drive in my desktop and I realized that I didn’t need it so I turned my computer off and took it off and reconnected everything and it is coming up with the weird 0xc00000f error and I can’t get into bios cuz my keyboard doesn’t turn on until windows is launched and I don’t have another keyboard and I need my computer fixed within 3 hours please help

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, Jack Dvorak said:

I tried to put my laptop drive in my desktop and I realized that I didn’t need it so I turned my computer off and took it off and reconnected everything and it is coming up with the weird 0xc00000f error and I can’t get into bios cuz my keyboard doesn’t turn on until windows is launched and I don’t have another keyboard and I need my computer fixed within 3 hours please help

It's because you're trying to boot an install of Windows from another machine. The cleanest, less painful way of dealing with this is to reinstall Windows completely. 

[Jack Dvorak]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's because you're trying to boot an install of Windows from another machine. The cleanest, less painful way of dealing with this is to reinstall Windows completely. 

I cannot do that I have too many important files please help.

[LabRat]

disconnect laptop drive ( physically ) from pc. boot with original HD hooked up.

[Jack Dvorak]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's because you're trying to boot an install of Windows from another machine. The cleanest, less painful way of dealing with this is to reinstall Windows completely. 

I managed to get into bios I don’t want to lose any files please

[Jack Dvorak]

Just now, LabRat said:

disconnect laptop drive ( physically ) from pc. boot with original HD hooked up.

I did that and this happened

[LabRat]

check boot sequence. reset if necessary. save and reboot.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, Jack Dvorak said:

I cannot do that I have too many important files please help.

If you're trying to retrieve files, boot off the drive originally used to for the OS on your desktop. The drive from your laptop will appear in Windows as just regular storage with the files intact. 

[Jack Dvorak]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

If you're trying to retrieve files, boot off the drive originally used to for the OS on your desktop. The drive from your laptop will appear in Windows as just regular storage with the files intact. 

No I just wanted more storage for some other things and if I reinstall windows do I lose all of my files?

[LabRat]

yes, you will lose whatever is on the drive.

 

you should have hot swapped the laptop drive into the pc and reformatted it while the pc was active.

[Jack Dvorak]

Just now, LabRat said:

yes, you will lose whatever is on the drive.

 

you should have hot swapped the laptop drive into the pc and reformatted it while the pc was active.

I didn’t know how oh my god I hate my life is there any way at all to fix this without losing anything

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, Jack Dvorak said:

No I just wanted more storage for some other things and if I reinstall windows do I lose all of my files?

You won't loose files if you don't format the drive from your laptop. Unplug the SATA cable to the drive from the laptop, wait until Windows boots, then plug back in your drive.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, Jack Dvorak said:

I didn’t know how oh my god I hate my life is there any way at all to fix this without losing anything

Just calm down, you're confusing us and yourself. If you haven't tried reinstall Windows, you haven't lost anything yet.

[Jack Dvorak]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Just calm down, you're confusing us and yourself. If you haven't tried reinstall Windows, you haven't lost anything yet.

I have not, i just have this error since then I have not done anything to it. Please help I got into bios tho

[LabRat]

really, you're trying to get your original pc booted up. ??? and using the laptop drive for extra storage right...??

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, LabRat said:

really, you're trying to get your original pc booted up. ??? and using the laptop drive for extra storage right...??

I feel like we should start from the beginning. 

[Jack Dvorak]

1 minute ago, LabRat said:

really, you're trying to get your original pc booted up. ??? and using the laptop drive for extra storage right...??

Yes, I took the laptop drive out as I don’t need it anymore. I forgot I had enough space on another drive. And when I shut my pc fully off and took it out, then I restarted my computer and this error occurred.

[Enderman]

You need to plug the drive into a different fully functioning PC, save your files on the other computer, then clean install windows.

https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

No there is no other way to do it, unless you want to buy a brand new drive.

[Jack Dvorak]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

You need to plug the drive into a different fully functioning PC, save your files on the other computer, then clean install windows.

https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

No there is no other way to do it, unless you want to buy a brand new drive.

I cannot do that this is the only pc in the household. Are you sure this is the only way. No other way in the world whatsoever.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, Jack Dvorak said:

I cannot do that this is the only pc in the household. Are you sure this is the only way. No other way in the world whatsoever.

So let me confirm this...

You wanted to use your old laptop drive as a storage drive for your desktop. So you plugged it into your desktop. Now it wouldn't boot, even if you unplug the laptop drive or have it boot off of the original drive from the boot menu. Is that correct? 

 

I want you to explicitly answer, have you tried removing the laptop drive, just leaving the original drive to boot Windows? 

[BWLServers]

It sounds like the original drive won't boot even now that the laptop drive is disconnected. Is the PC UEFI or Legacy boot? If you can get into the BIOS, try selecting the original drive as the very first boot device. It may still be looking for another SATA device.

[Enderman]

8 minutes ago, Jack Dvorak said:

I cannot do that this is the only pc in the household. Are you sure this is the only way. No other way in the world whatsoever.

You either use another PC to get the data off, or you wipe the drive.

Should have done your research before messing with stuff like this...

[Jack Dvorak]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

So let me confirm this...

You wanted to use your old laptop drive as a storage drive for your desktop. So you plugged it into your desktop. Now it wouldn't boot, even if you unplug the laptop drive or have it boot off of the original drive from the boot menu. Is that correct? 

 

I want you to explicitly answer, have you tried removing the laptop drive, just leaving the original drive to boot Windows? 

Yes. It didn’t launch with the laptop drive in, so I took it back out. And the same error occurred. The boot sequence is still how it should be... 

[Jack Dvorak]

2 minutes ago, BWLServers said:

It sounds like the original drive won't boot even now that the laptop drive is disconnected. Is the PC UEFI or Legacy boot? If you can get into the BIOS, try selecting the original drive as the very first boot device. It may still be looking for another SATA device.

I did that, the primary boot source is the main hardrive

[BWLServers]

Just now, Enderman said:

You either use another PC to get the data off, or you wipe the drive.

Should have done your research before messing with stuff like this...

That's not very constructive or necessarily true. A hard drive doesn't just not boot for no reason and become completely unfixable.

If we can get into a command prompt we can investigate further.