Help mooving MBR

[Karlmask]

Hi there, 

 

I'm really a noob and after a research on other website, I don't think I understood much. 

I bought a prebuilt with only a HDD. When I transfered the system to another case and Mobo, I bought an SSD and installed Windows on the new Drive. 

 

Now, I just bought a pcie SSD to entirely replace the HDD. 

My problem is that I can't boot straight to the first SSD. I need to boot on the HDD (even though windows is installed on SSD). 

 

From my research, my problem seams to be with the Master Boot Record (MBR), which seems to be on the HDD. 

 

I'm at work RN, but I was thinking about formating all my drives, unplugging the HDD and then reinstall Windows. 

- Will this work?

- Is there a better, easier way to deal with this?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

[mariushm]

Make a bootable "recovery drive"  USB stick or CD/DVD using the built in software : How to Create and Use a Recovery Drive or System Repair Disc in Windows 8 or 10

 

Turn off your pc.

Disconnect the other drive leaving just your ssd

Boot from usb stick/ cd / dvd (may have to go in bios and put it in boot order) or may have to press F8 or some key to boot from usb stick

Go through the menus and you'll have there somewhere fix boot / repair boot / something ... look at the pictures in the article linked above.

 

 

[kb5zue]

Don't forget to change the boot order in the BIOS.  Providing the installation of the OS went okay, changing the boot order inside the BIOS will fix your problem.

[Karlmask]

Oh yeah, i was planning to go with an install on a usb drive. 

 

So once I'm in there (and have the HDD unpluggeg), I guess it's the "Startup repair" option?

- Or "startup Settings"... Hmmm

 

(Thanks a lot!)

[Karlmask]

Just now, kb5zue said:

Don't forget to change the boot order in the BIOS.  Providing the installation of the OS went okay, changing the boot order inside the BIOS will fix your problem.

For now, It seems impossible to boot straight from my ssd (C drive)... 

 

But I guess once I do what Mariushm has recommended, it should be available (I hope) 

[kb5zue]

5 minutes ago, Karlmask said:

For now, It seems impossible to boot straight from my ssd (C drive)... 

 

But I guess once I do what Mariushm has recommended, it should be available (I hope) 

Use a Windows Media Creation Tool.  It will set up the partitions and everything you need to do to install Windows.  Just follow the onscreen instructions then after all is said and done with the Tool, then just access the BIOS with the F12, F2 or whatever other key it may be and change the boot order in the BIOS.  That should do the trick and all will be good to go.

[Karlmask]

All right, I created my recovery key and i will try that first tonight... If it doesn't work, I'll go with the clean install. 

 

The Windows Media Creation Tool is used to do a clean install, am I correct?