Windows and Computer Failure

[MDH]

I recently decided I wanted to rob a hard drive from a friends computer to use in mine (with his permission) since I was out of space and he had plenty. I pulled out one of the hard drives and then attempted to turn on the computer. The computer started like normal (all fans running, other hard drive disk spinning) but there was nothing on the screen (not even BIOS). I then plugged the hard drive back in and still nothing on the screen. I then decided to turn the power off and then back on again and it finally booted into windows recovery mode. It then prompted me to put the installation disk back in or start windows normally. I decided to restart the computer again because I didn't have the installation disk and didn't want to risk losing anything by starting normally. So I then tried rebooting and the computer again booted without anything on screen, I rebooted again several times and still nothing. I then decide to replace the motherboard battery and the computer starts up again and back to the windows recovery screen, I select start windows normally and then windows starts normally without any problems. The only problem I'm having is the computer still does sometimes start back up again without anything on screen, I then need to turn off the power and turn it back on again, so far that's been working fine.

 

So My Questions Are:

- Why would disconnecting the hard drive corrupt windows and cause problems with the BIOS

- How can I stop this from reoccurring?

 

Any replies will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Skiiwee29]

Generally it sounds more like a video issue than anything. I had an issue similar with my GTX560ti where it would boot black screen. I built my wife a new computer and put it in and nothing. I only knew things were working because through my speakers I heard windows boot, otherwise no video. I would look at possibly testing with a different video card. 

[MDH]

15 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

Generally it sounds more like a video issue than anything. I had an issue similar with my GTX560ti where it would boot black screen. I built my wife a new computer and put it in and nothing. I only knew things were working because through my speakers I heard windows boot, otherwise no video. I would look at possibly testing with a different video card. 

But why would that result in windows corrupting?

[Skiiwee29]

I dont think its corrupting windows. When windows is shut down improperly, you will get that message upon boot up to start in safe mode, boot normally etc.. I think thats what is happening. 

[ShadowCaptain]

9 minutes ago, MDH said:

But why would that result in windows corrupting?

 

Its possible your computer is trying to boot off the new drive thinking that is the drive where the OS is installed, you need to make sure your BOOT order is set NOT to use that drive!

Also if this drive had your friends OS on, that means he no longer has windows installed

[MDH]

7 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

I dont think its corrupting windows. When windows is shut down improperly, you will get that message upon boot up to start in safe mode, boot normally etc.. I think thats what is happening. 

It came up with this message. Not the typical boot options menu. I've have the boot options menu come up quite a few times after force shutdowning, etc. But I've never had that Windows Error Recovery come up.

[MDH]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

 

Its possible your computer is trying to boot off the new drive thinking that is the drive where the OS is installed, you need to make sure your BOOT order is set NOT to use that drive!

Also if this drive had your friends OS on, that means he no longer has windows installed

Sorry wasn't clear, it was HIS computer that was not starting after I unplugged his drive (I don't know which drive I unplugged, might have been the os drive, might have been the empty one), I then plugged his hard drive back into HIS computer and it was still black screening. The empty hard drive did have an OS shortcut on it, I wasn't sure what it was so I just left it, but maybe you're right and it did try to boot off that OS shortcut, I'm not sure. Even if that was the case still it still unfortunately doesn't explain the black screens, weird.