Windows doesn't load when HDD is in

[SanjayP]

So basically my friends Acer Aspire V5-571P-6631 laptop stopped working the other day so he asked me if i could take a look at it. When his laptop starts up he has the Acer boot logo and when it tries to load into windows after that he just gets a error saying Operating System not found. Like this: https://wpcf.neosmart.net/sites/5/2013/08/operating-system-not-found-missing.png Then i decided to remove the hard drive from his laptop and put it into my desktop. After I did that i was unable to boot into my own windows on my SSD. I checked the bios and tried to boot back into my SSD multiple times but nothing worked. All i get is a windows 10 starting logo for about 30 seconds then a permanent black screen. However when I remove my friends hard drive from my computer it starts up normally. If anyone is able to suggest anything to help me troubleshoot this HDD it would be greatly appreciated.

[LabRat]

did you boot up normally and then hot swap his drive into your machine. windows may or may not find it, but it should if you reboot back to the desktop.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Shameless plug:

That should get you started on fixing the problem.

 

EDIT: The guide assumes you have Windows 10, but you can do this with Windows 7. The only thing that's different is is getting to a command prompt in the recovery environment.

[SanjayP]

11 minutes ago, LabRat said:

did you boot up normally and then hot swap his drive into your machine. windows may or may not find it, but it should if you reboot back to the desktop.

I plugged the hard drive in before my computer booted up.

 

[SanjayP]

10 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Shameless plug:

That should get you started on fixing the problem.

 

EDIT: The guide assumes you have Windows 10, but you can do this with Windows 7. The only thing that's different is is getting to a command prompt in the recovery environment.

Hi thanks for responding I have tried to start the laptop with the Windows 10 ISO installed on my USB but the acer boot logo shows up for a few min then theres a permanent black screen

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, SanjayP said:

Hi thanks for responding I have tried to start the laptop with the Windows 10 ISO installed on my USB but the acer boot logo shows up for a few min then theres a permanent black screen

Are you sure the laptop was trying to boot from the USB? Just because it's in there doesn't mean it automatically boots to it.