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SSD Boot help

pelark
By pelark
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Hey

A while ago, I reintalled windows 10 on a 120gig HyperX fury SSD and reformatted the 1tb drive I had at the time along with it. I made sure I installed it on the SSD, and all my windows stuff is stored on there. However, I didn't unplug my HDD during the installation as I just wanted to format it in the process, and I recently tried to boot without it plugged in. I made sure the SSD was #1 in the boot order in the BIOS but it wouldnt boot, just prompted me straight into the bios when I tried to restart. Would I need to reinstall windows on the SSD without having the harddrive plugged in? Would that fix it in any way?'

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The something else is wrong. Did you accidentally knock out the SSDs cables? 

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because most likely Windows install didn't installed the bootloader on the SSD and it remained on the HDD

 

the 1st rule of installing Windows on a different drive than the one it was previously on - remove the other drive!!!!!!!

 

you could try and rebuild the bootloader with the Windows install (USB) drive

  • start Advanced Startup Options
  • open Command Prompt from Advanced Startup Options
  • type:  
bootrec /rebuildbcd

could take up to 10 minutes to complete

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1 hour ago, zMeul said:

because most likely Windows install didn't installed the bootloader on the SSD and it remained on the HDD

 

the 1st rule of installing Windows on a different drive than the one it was previously on - remove the other drive!!!!!!!

 

you could try and rebuild the bootloader with the Windows install (USB) drive

  • start Advanced Startup Options
  • open Command Prompt from Advanced Startup Options
  • type:  

bootrec /rebuildbcd

could take up to 10 minutes to complete

Will look into it, thanks

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The something else is wrong. Did you accidentally knock out the SSDs cables? 

Nope, double checked that :) 

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