"Slected Boot Device Failed" on startup

[Opencircuit74]

Hello,

 

So my parents have a computer that decided to crap out recently. The computer itself is unable to be fixed, but the hard drive and all of the data is still good. I slapped it into a Dell OptiPlex 390 as a replacement, and I am getting a "Selected Boot Device Failed" error every time I try and boot from it.

 

This issue also persists on my test bench. I have managed to get a test ssd working on this system, so the only reason that it is not working seems to be an issue with booting off of the hard drive. There are 4 partitions on the drive, a primary partition (917GB), an EFI system partition (500MB), a "WINRETOOLS" partition (853MB), and an "Image" system partition (12.3GB). Any help would be appreciated on this matter. Thank you.

[BubblyCharizard]

install windows on an SSD and copy off all the data you need

 

especially since it looks like an OEM drive

[Catsrules]

42 minutes ago, Opencircuit74 said:

Hello,

 

So my parents have a computer that decided to crap out recently. The computer itself is unable to be fixed, but the hard drive and all of the data is still good. I slapped it into a Dell OptiPlex 390 as a replacement, and I am getting a "Selected Boot Device Failed" error every time I try and boot from it.

 

This issue also persists on my test bench. I have managed to get a test ssd working on this system, so the only reason that it is not working seems to be an issue with booting off of the hard drive. There are 4 partitions on the drive, a primary partition (917GB), an EFI system partition (500MB), a "WINRETOOLS" partition (853MB), and an "Image" system partition (12.3GB). Any help would be appreciated on this matter. Thank you.

You probably need to change some setting in the BIOS to get it to boot. Check on stuff like switching between UEFI legacy, changing the SATA interface to IDE or AHCI, or RAID.

 

But honestly even it you do get it to boot you might just end up getting BSOD as the hardware has changed. I agree with BubblyCharizard your better off with just installing windows on the SSD and copying any valuable data off the drive.

[Opencircuit74]

28 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

You probably need to change some setting in the BIOS to get it to boot. Check on stuff like switching between UEFI legacy, changing the SATA interface to IDE or AHCI, or RAID.

 

But honestly even it you do get it to boot you might just end up getting BSOD as the hardware has changed. I agree with BubblyCharizard your better off with just installing windows on the SSD and copying any valuable data off the drive.

I may end up doing that, as I do have some dries laying around.

 

I used a windows install USB to attempt to repair the drive, and also ran some commands such as Bootrec/fixbmr, Bootrec/fixboot, Bootrec/scanos, and Bootrec/rebuildbcd. I have no idea if they did anything, as I also ran the windows automatic recovery from the USB. Once it told me that it was not able to fix the drive, I booted to my ssd to find that I could boot into the windows install with all of the OEM stuff on it. It recognizes the original 1TB hard drive as the C drive, but it's very slow. I will see what I can do later, but for now I'm just going to let it sit for a while and see if it sorts itself out.