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Dravinian
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Hey all,


Drive was working fine yesterday.

 

Today, I tried to include an older 300gb hard drive by adding this to the power extension, using a different SATA cable and booting up.  The drives were admittedly, all resting on each other (in enclosures) and the SSD boot (SAMSUNG Evo 840) would not boot.

 

I unplugged all drives but the SSD, will not boot.

 

Is recognised in Bios.

 

Tried getting into Command Prompt, drive is seen, says it is healthy, tried to recover the drive, says healthy, has a drive letter.


Will not boot.

 

Anyone got any ideas, because when I tried the microsoft Creation Media Tool, it has an option for Upgrade, and keep files - but it won't do this from the USB and tells you do it after windows has started normally.

 

It haas a repair option; 

 

It goes to troubleshoot, I select the option, Start-Up repair....says Couldn't repair your PC.

 

The advanced options are all garbage and don't work.

 

Any reason that everything would appear fine, but it simply will not boot and none of the options have any impact on the drive?

 

Anyone got a work around, I don't really want to lose all the info on the drive if at all possible.

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As an update, if I boot into the SSD with Boot Manager first, it goes to the spinning circle screen....and then appears to crash.


The MB shows no error code, it just hangs with the circle spinning.

 

This is what prompted me to try all the actions above.

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I am so the wrong person to try and answer this one .  Windows boot systems have never been clear to me since the days of floppies (where they made sense) 

To wildly guess:

My first guess is the old hard drive was once a boot drive and used some ancient low level no longer used garbage to tell the machine that it in fact was the correct boot drive even though it wasn’t.   The result is the bootability of the new SSD has been turned off somehow.  It might say something in bios about whether it is a boot drive or not.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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It does show up as Boot Option #2 and does attempt to boot, but hangs at the spinning circle.

 

I have tried making it Boot Option #1 and disabling Boot Manager, but then it doesn't even get to the spinning circle.

 

I am worried that the drive is trashed, which would be annoying, as it was working yesterday.

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Why has WIndows made it so hard to get into Safe Mode now? Used to be press a button, now you have to rely on Windows to realise that there is a problem which it hasn't done so far, to let you into Safe Mode.

 

edit not a hard crash, reset does work.

 

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I am only familiar with spin cycle as it applies to laundry so I’m likely of little help.  Is there any error code anywhere saying why it is hanging?  One thing I’ve heard about win 10 is that it can often figure out boot issues by itself but can be reaaaaalllly slow about it.  Like 10 minutes.  This is partially because drives  are a LOT bigger than they used to be.  Is it possible you didn’t leave the machine to chuckle to itself long enough?

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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3 minutes ago, Dravinian said:

Why has WIndows made it so hard to get into Safe Mode now? Used to be press a button, now you have to rely on Windows to realise that there is a problem which it hasn't done so far, to let you into Safe Mode.

 

edit not a hard crash, reset does work.

 

Heh.  Yeah it’s ridiculous.  Apparently all the low level stuff is like that now.  Super annoying.  There’s a reboot involved.  I’ve already forgotten how to do it :/  luckily the internet probably hasn’t.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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I got into safe mode and it gave me an option to 'reset windows' if that works I am happy re-installing stuff, as apparently all your personal files remain untouched.  Fingers crossed!

 

For anyone that happens across this, as I did several SSD not booting threads, to get into Safe Mode you have to reset 3 times, not power down as described elsewhere on the web.  3 resets got me to safe mode.

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