Can't boot can someone help?

[Mr.White_]

I'm new to forums so i didn't know where to post this but here i am. I need help with this. So i got my C: harddisk out of my old system after getting closing it and put it in my new pc and deleted everything from it with disk manager and set it as a sorage device. And now i wanted to put it back in my new pc and when i did my pc wont start. It starts and closes starts and closes immediatly. What should i do. How do i get it to boot? Is it because i wiped windows from it and set it up as a D: drive? What do i need to do? The pc was working fine before.

[Radium_Angel]

16 minutes ago, Mr.White_ said:

deleted everything

Did you delete everything, or format the drive?

deleting won't remove the boot sectors (those are hidden) so your new PC is confused, trying to boot from a drive with nothing on it but the boot sectors.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Troubleshooting

[Mr.White_]

12 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Did you delete everything, or format the drive?

deleting won't remove the boot sectors (those are hidden) so your new PC is confused, trying to boot from a drive with nothing on it but the boot sectors.

the thing i did was go into disk manager and select delete. I didn't format. Can you help me with that. how do i do it

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Mr.White_ said:

the thing i did was go into disk manager and select delete. I didn't format. Can you help me with that. how do i do it

Take it out, ensure your new PC is working fine.

If it is, shut it down, attach this spare drive.

Power up system, go into BIOS, and ensure that your existing drive is the boot drive, not this "blank" one.

 

Boot to windows.

Go into File Explorer, find the "blank" drive, right click on it and select "format"

[Mr.White_]

2 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Take it out, ensure your new PC is working fine.

If it is, shut it down, attach this spare drive.

Power up system, go into BIOS, and ensure that your existing drive is the boot drive, not this "blank" one.

 

Boot to windows.

Go into File Explorer, find the "blank" drive, right click on it and select "format"

does it mater if i use fast format option? I did it with it now and ill try again now

[Mr.White_]

 

1 hour ago, Mr.White_ said:

does it mater if i use fast format option? I did it with it now and ill try again now

it didnt boot. the same issue. It opens foe a sec and fans spin for a second and then it closes again and keeps doing it with 2 sec in between 

[Radium_Angel]

14 minutes ago, Mr.White_ said:

 

it didnt boot. the same issue. It opens foe a sec and fans spin for a second and then it closes again and keeps doing it with 2 sec in between 

Does it boot without the spare drive installed?

[Mr.White_]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Does it boot without the spare drive installed?

let me try

[Mr.White_]

7 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Does it boot without the spare drive installed?

    no. same thing withouth it

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, Mr.White_ said:

    no. same thing withouth it

Ok, back up a sec, you put this drive in your *new* PC, and booted to windows, formatted the drive, correct?

[Mr.White_]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Ok, back up a sec, you put this drive in your *new* PC, and booted to windows, formatted the drive, correct?

yes

[Mr.White_]

there was already a boot drive in my new pc. ı just used my old boot drive as storage in new pc and formatted it.

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Mr.White_ said:

yes

Right, so you are using this now blank hard drive as a spare drive in your new system, right?

[Mr.White_]

then i tried using as boot drive again in old pc

[Mr.White_]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Right, so you are using this now blank hard drive as a spare drive in your new system, right?

yes

[Mr.White_]

theres nothing in it rn tho

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Mr.White_ said:

then i tried using as boot drive again in old pc

The drive is now blank, nothing to boot to in the old PC. You need to re-install Windows on it

[Mr.White_]

Do i do that with my working pc?

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Mr.White_ said:

Do i do that with my working pc?

No, you put the, now blank, drive in your old PC, and install Windows from there, either by USB stick, or DVD

[Mr.White_]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

No, you put the, now blank, drive in your old PC, and install Windows from there, either by USB stick, or DVD

but even tho theres no windows shouldnt t boot into bios?

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Mr.White_ said:

but even tho theres no windows shouldnt t boot into bios?

You still have to press a key (typically the delete key, but could be f2 or f10, depending on the manufacturer of your PC) to get into BIOS, it doesn't automatically go there.

I have to ask, why did you do this?

[Mr.White_]

my old computer was really old so i was just gonna put it away. so i took harddisk out of it. but then someone wanted the old computer and here i am nowi

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

You still have to press a key (typically the delete key, but could be f2 or f10, depending on the manufacturer of your PC) to get into BIOS, it doesn't automatically go there.

I have to ask, why did you do this?

 

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Mr.White_ said:

my old computer was really old so i was just gonna put it away. so i took harddisk out of it. but then someone wanted the old computer and here i am nowi

 

So give it to him as it is, and don't worry about it. Let them fiddle with it

[Mr.White_]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

So give it to him as it is, and don't worry about it. Let them fiddle with it

the thing is hes completely clueless about computers.