Clearly bootable hdd gets recognized by laptop but dosnt boot.

Trxpls · January 19, 2020

So I'm working on my girlfriends laptop her windows installation seemed broken after the baterie ran out midway through an update. It wa just stuck in a loop of self repair shit.

So I backed her data up and tried a clean install. First problem i couldn't figure out how to get the boot manager so i had too change the actual boot order I'm the uefi wich lead (at least I think it did) to the install always failing after I got fed up with trying I just installed windows on her hdd on a different laptop.

So when I but her hdd now graced with a fresh windows installation back into her pc. The laptop didnt boot. I went into the uefi and went to the boot order tab. And sure enough the hdd was there detected in first place. I than put the windows install USB stick into it and tried to run one of the trouble shooting programs but it too seemed to not see the hdd as a bootable device and said I had to insert a hdd with windows on it.

I later found the option to enable the "select one time boot medium" menu.

So I might be able to install now.

BUT that can't be the solution right ???