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I can't boot my laptop with my old HDD installed?

Citrusflavour01
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I boot from my SSD but as soon as I put my old HDD back in my laptop tries to boot from it instead of my SSD? I went into BIOS and deleted the HDD boot option manually and now it's in a loop going into BIOS after turning on. I do have an old installation of windows on the HDD and I think that has something to do with it. There's no option of secure boot in my BIOS btw.

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2 minutes ago, Citrusflavour01 said:

I boot from my SSD but as soon as I put my old HDD back in my laptop tries to boot from it instead of my SSD? I went into BIOS and deleted the HDD boot option manually and now it's in a loop going into BIOS after turning on. I do have an old installation of windows on the HDD and I think that has something to do with it. There's no option of secure boot in my BIOS btw.

Try booting into Windows with just your SSD first, then after you are in Windows, insert the HDD ( Don't worry this won't brick your laptop or crash windows generally ) and once you've done that, go to Start and search for Disk Manager, it will say " Create and format  hard disk partitions " and open it, you should see  your HDD with a black ribbon. RIght click and select " create new volume " and you should be ready to go. Let me know if it helps, cheers!

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My Laptop unexpectedly booted up with my SSD this time so I formatted the HDD so the windows installation won't interfere. So far everything is working 👌. 

1 hour ago, Carbonado said:

Try booting into Windows with just your SSD first, then after you are in Windows, insert the HDD ( Don't worry this won't brick your laptop or crash windows generally ) and once you've done that, go to Start and search for Disk Manager, it will say " Create and format  hard disk partitions " and open it, you should see  your HDD with a black ribbon. RIght click and select " create new volume " and you should be ready to go. Let me know if it helps, cheers!

Although your method didn't work the idea of leaving my laptop back casing off while using the system came from that method.

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Change the boot order,the SSD should be first.

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