Windows 8.1 update problem

Spongy141 · February 21, 2015

So I recently got my dads old Samsung 840 Pro ssd (128 gb) after he wanted a knew ssd because of this ones small size (its fine for me). So we have always had problems installing windows on it, always says 'Windows can not be installed on this partition, disk, ect.' this time it did, but fixed it by formatting the partition and disconnecting all. Anyways, the 8 installation went smoothly (Note: Went slow for an ssd, other ssd's I installed windows on went a lot faster). Then I had problems installing windows updates so that I can get the 8.1 update.

Finally after 8 hours (I have 50 Mb/s download speed) the updates finally finished. So I got the 8.1 update from the store, installed fine, got into windows. So then I turned off my PC, plugged in the sata cables for my other drives (one was my old boot drive with the OS still on it, glad I did not format it, only reason I still have a working PC) so it tried booting into my old OS, so I restarted again and forced it to boot to the ssd, instead my motherboard says 'Reboot and plug in proper boot media' (or something like that). So I go into my bios and noticed 'windows boot manager' which from what I know doesn't need to be used when you have already installed the OS, but I try it anyways and it start the windows loading screen, except with the MSI logo still showing. After a couple of seconds I get an error 'bad_system_config_info' look it up, says either registry files are faulty or my RAM is, I'm sure my RAM is fine because I dont get the error when I boot from my old boot drive.

Anyways, I switch the sata cables on the ssd (keeping the same sata port on my motherboard) and then that error goes away, instead I get 'Windows installation failed' (Still wont boot directly from ssd)...

So anyone know how I can fix this? ~~Also I am going to try this and post the results.~~ Did not fix the problem at all, did absolutely nothing at all actually.

Spongy141 · February 21, 2015

If I got it right, you can boot with the SSD without having other drives connected. If you can, check the boot order of your drives and put that SSD to boot first (Windows Boot Manager is the new bootloader of Windows 8/8.1/10). Other thing that might happen is one Windows mess with the other one, making the disk inactive and preventing it to boot properly, but I think that isn't your case.

Thanks for replying.

No it wouldn't boot either way, with or without other drives, I did a firmware update on it, and reinstalled windows 8 on it (using it as boot drive right now) so that seemed to fix that, not having any problems, going to do the windows updates then do the 8.1 update, if I get the same problem I will reply that I did. So far I think the firmware update did the trick.