Hard drives are confusing

DSteiny18 · November 3, 2016

I went to boot on a pc today and it gave me the "no boot device found" message. fearing my hard drive was dead i took it out and plugged it in to another pc and it works just fine. i was able to transfer and backuo my files without any issues. i then thought maybe something was wrong with the laptop itself but it will easily recognize another hard drive. my next thought was some sort of boot file or something?

I have a recovery drive and i tried sunning the system file checker with an elevated command promot but windows couldn't finish it. i also tried recovering the os (windows 10) from the hard drive, and that failed at like 24% twice. is my hard drive not fixable somehow?

Matt_98 · November 3, 2016

use crystal disk info on another pc to diagnose any hardware issues with the hard drive.

Nord · November 3, 2016

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

Download this and let it check the HDD, might takes some time but it will actually check every sector thearely, if it comes back w/o an issues you know the HDD is not damaged.

"no boot device found" can mean both that the HDD is not recognised at all or just that windows is damaged.

Depending on how you connected the HDD to a different PC, you might want to try to boot from it on a different system aswell and see if that works.

If it does not, you know windows broke itself, basically and you will have to reformat most likely.