Weird booting problem from ssd. Need your help.

[Ch3p]

Good evening Linus Community,

 

i have a rather big problem and ask for your help.

 

[I thought with all the new and old it might be confusing, thats why Green is old and Blue is new]

 

Today i installed my recently bought SSD and a new HDD aswell. I used my Windows 7 64bit CD, installed windows on the SSD. Nothing special.

I set the boot order to priotize the SSD and once i had my super clean fresh new windows i started to download windows updates.

While doing that (while it downloaded/installed) i downloaded my video card drivers (nvidia) and after both finished it required me to restart my computer.

(Please note that i still have my old HDD installed with everything on it, which i now booted from to write this)

 

While booting the usual things happened (picture of mainboard, starting animation of windows) and then i have gotten a black screen. It then started back again and ended up being in a loop of restarting and only getting to the same black screen.

 

I then started in safe mode and noticed that i had more windows updates (installed those) and uninstalled the video card drivers. After restarting (yes i got further than the black screen and could start normally) i had even more updates which i installed. I proceeded to repeat this a couple of times until i had no more windows updates left and then reinstalled the video card drivers. I then had the same issue, except for it not looping. The black screen just stayed.

 

I am by no means a computer expert, but my dad who i installed all of this with has a bit of experience. He said that it doesn't recognize my graphics card

( i like to think that because of this i could only set my desktop resolution to something like 1600x1200 instead of 1920x1080p). 

We are both clueless what caused this and how to fix this.

 

More things i noticed are that it doesnt recognize my new HDD (1TB) and that it kind of splits up my old one. I now have C: (465GB; my old HDD with everything on it) some random Partition E: (100MB; my Dad said thats a partition from my old HDD, it never used to show me this extra, it was just my old HDD and nothing else) and ofcourse F: (new SSD 250GB). When booting from my SSD C: is the SSD obviously. 

 

 

I think it could be possible that it mixed something up when i installed the nvidia drivers while installing the windows updates. A friend of mine suggested to start from scratch and next time don't do windows updates and only install the videocard drivers. What do you guys think?

 

 

 

My System

CPU: FX 8320

GPU: Gtx 970

RAM: 8GB

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

PSU: 500Watt

old HDD: 500GB

new HDD: 1TB

new SSD: 250GB Samsung EVO 840

OS: Windows 7 64bit

 

I am desperate for any advice, help or tips on how you would proceed in that situation. I would be more than happy to show you anything you want to see in terms of further details or anything. 

 

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

[SubTract]

Boot in to safe mode again remove the existing driver and try the last driver (One before current)

you can find that here

It is unlikely that the problem is with windows update because everybody with a 970 would have the issue.

I would also suggest you reseat your graphics card on your motherboard.

If it still doesn't work you may have to re-install windows. Perhaps 8.1 

[Ch3p]

@SubTract 

Thanks a lot for your answer, i'll be trying it tomorrow morning its really late here already.

I'll keep you guys posted. If anyone else has any idea, i'd love to here it.

[HannahLewis]

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I would follow the steps of subtract, getting your windows working is your first priority. 

 

Your harddrive not getting detected is actually quite simple to fix:

go to start > control panel (switch to Classic View) > administrative tools 

> computer management > storage : disk management 

your second disk will show, but not active(initialized) 

need to make active by right clicking on window that represents then drive 

then make active partition(drive) 

select to create partition (if applicable) 

select format (if applicable) 

wait and drive will change status to "healthy" at top windows and your drive/data will now be accessible and visible in 'My Computer' 

[HannahLewis]

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Is your system running again?

[NannerBeans]

Personally I would wipe the ssd and start all over again. Something might have gone wrong during install. This does take more time though so your choice. 

[tmlhalo]

Take every drive out of the machine but the new SSD you wish to install windows on. Go through the Windows installation process and when you pick a disk to install on delete all previous partitions until it is all consolidated into one item of unallocated space. Windows likes being dumb and installing the system reserve on other disks during the phase so having the other disks out makes it harder for it to fail at simple tasks.

Once Windows is done installing I would try to install your chipset driver for your motherboard, and driver for the NIC. Once those are in go ahead and get all the Window updates out the way. Then finish off the rest of the drivers for the motherboard and gpu. Once that is done you can install your new HDD. Once it is in and Windows is booted back up you can initiate the drive by hitting start, typing disk management, it might prompt you to select MBR or GPT (GPT), then there should be a bar that relates to the HDD in the window. Delete all previous partitions on the drive that matches the HDD by right click delete, then select the block of unallocated space and hit make new simple volume. Follow the on screen wizard using most of the default settings. When it asks if you want to give it a drive letter do so, I would give it something easy like H, for HDD.

Once done the drive should show up under my computer. When you go to install programs onto the drive just change the drive path. Instead of C:/Program Files/ it will be H:/Program Files.