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I wanted to put an SSD in my old GFs laptop so i made a bottable 64 GB SSD (samsung 830 series), but it wont boot.
The drive will boot normally in any other pc tho.
The drive does show up in the BIOS of the laptop.


What i have tried:
- hard power reset

- clear CMOS

- change boot mode to CMS(instead of UEFI) + disabled secure boot
- changed the boot order around

 

Any ideas??

I am here to learn, please correct me if im wrong or you see me putting bs on your screen!

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1 minute ago, goto10 said:

reinstall windows with the ssd installed, make a bootable installer of windows, use the microsoft tool to create such usb installer

thats the big problem :D
the tool crashes while creating the USB stick. on all my pcs :/ so atm this isnt an option.
I will be trying this next week tho.

Dont think it will help tho, the SSD boots normally on other pcs 

I am here to learn, please correct me if im wrong or you see me putting bs on your screen!

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2 minutes ago, goto10 said:

reinstall windows with the ssd installed, make a bootable installer of windows, use the microsoft tool to create such usb installer

the only windows media i have is a DVD of win10 update 1703. I installed windows on the SSD this way, then updated it.
The laptop doesnt have a DVD drive sadly.

I am here to learn, please correct me if im wrong or you see me putting bs on your screen!

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i said use the microsoft tool to create a usb installer, no one mentioned any dvd

 

open your web browser on a pc, write create windows 10 usb installer

 

the search shoild offer you a microsoft link to download the tool

 

you need a usb flashdrive of at least 4gbs, let it run and select create usb, it can take arpund half hour, perhaps more, it has to download the installer from microsoft servers

 

do you have the win7 license key for that laptop? you can use it for win10

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3 minutes ago, goto10 said:

i said use the microsoft tool to create a usb installer, no one mentioned any dvd

 

open your web browser on a pc, write create windows 10 usb installer

 

the search shoild offer you a microsoft link to download the tool

 

you need a usb flashdrive of at least 4gbs, let it run and select create usb, it can take arpund half hour, perhaps more, it has to download the installer from microsoft servers

 

do you have the win7 license key for that laptop? you can use it for win10

i know how to create the stick mate. i told u the tool isnt working for me.
It crashes. on 2pcs.
u need the specs maybe ?


 

I am here to learn, please correct me if im wrong or you see me putting bs on your screen!

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no need for specs, i used the tool yesterday and worked perfectly, perhaps you are trying with pcs running windows7 or with outdated win10

 

you can use the dvd on another pc, create a iso of it

 

then you can create a usb installer from that iso, use rufus for that, but the old installer must be a installer, cant be a recovery media that puts a image or something, what you need is a simple installer

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1 minute ago, goto10 said:

no need for specs, i used the tool yesterday and worked perfectly, perhaps you are trying with pcs running windows7 or with outdated win10

 

you can use the dvd on another pc, create a iso of it

 

then you can create a usb installer from that iso, use rufus for that, but the old installer must be a installer, cant be a recovery media that puts a image or something, what you need is a simple installer

my pc is win10 and up to date. rufus gives me a extraction error near 90%.
 

I am here to learn, please correct me if im wrong or you see me putting bs on your screen!

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1 hour ago, goto10 said:

extraction error doing what? creating the usb installer?

I managed to get it working.
The problem is with the USB stick i was using.
Thanks for the help :)

I am here to learn, please correct me if im wrong or you see me putting bs on your screen!

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