System Upgrade, Windows Won't Boot

[Xx_Nivlac_xX]

Hello,

 

Today I just sold my old CPU, Motherboard, and GPU to a friend. It is a Xeon X3570, AsusP7P55-E, and R7 260x. The system ran great for over a year for me and I loved it. We overclocked it and did some testing while in my case, then transfered it into his case. And when we did that, booting off his HDD it got into the BIOS fine, but when the system tried to boot windows, I was left with a blinking cursor. After a few hours of basic troubleshooting I brought the system back home with me and put my ssd back in it, and windows booted right up! I'm actually on it right now. Other than reinstalling Windows on his hard drive, do any of you have any idea what might be causing this issue and how to fix it? His Hard Drive was previously installed in his old system and worked fine. And after booting on my SSD, I can view the HDD as a second device and everything looks fine. I know the easy answer is to reinstall Windows but that is really not an option. Any Insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[TheCherryKing]

2 minutes ago, Xx_Nivlac_xX said:

Hello,

 

Today I just sold my old CPU, Motherboard, and GPU to a friend. It is a Xeon X3570, AsusP7P55-E, and R7 260x. The system ran great for over a year for me and I loved it. We overclocked it and did some testing while in my case, then transfered it into his case. And when we did that, booting off his HDD it got into the BIOS fine, but when the system tried to boot windows, I was left with a blinking cursor. After a few hours of basic troubleshooting I brought the system back home with me and put my ssd back in it, and windows booted right up! I'm actually on it right now. Other than reinstalling Windows on his hard drive, do any of you have any idea what might be causing this issue and how to fix it? His Hard Drive was previously installed in his old system and worked fine. And after booting on my SSD, I can view the HDD as a second device and everything looks fine. I know the easy answer is to reinstall Windows but that is really not an option. Any Insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Which version of Windows is it?

[0x1e]

You can't just put a different Windows OS onto another completely different system.

It's really hit and miss. Even if it does work then there can be complications down the road that can be hard to fix.

 

The blinking __ means the board can't find a bootable OS.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Just now, 0x1e said:

You can't just put a different Windows OS onto another completely different system.

It's really hit and miss. Even if it does work then there can be complications down the road that can be hard to fix.

 

The blinking __ means the board can't find a bootable OS.

Actually only partially true.

Windows 8/8.1/10 will rebuild themselves even after platform changes. Windows 7 is notorious for BSOD'ing when moved even to something similar

[TheCherryKing]

When I transferred my hard drives in RAID to a new build with a completely different RAID controller, motherboard, memory, and CPUs Windows 8.1 worked flawlessly! 

[NTDaws]

29 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Actually only partially true.

Windows 8/8.1/10 will rebuild themselves even after platform changes. Windows 7 is notorious for BSOD'ing when moved even to something similar

90% of the time it works.

[Guest]

47 minutes ago, Xx_Nivlac_xX said:

Hello,

 

Today I just sold my old CPU, Motherboard, and GPU to a friend. It is a Xeon X3570, AsusP7P55-E, and R7 260x. The system ran great for over a year for me and I loved it. We overclocked it and did some testing while in my case, then transfered it into his case. And when we did that, booting off his HDD it got into the BIOS fine, but when the system tried to boot windows, I was left with a blinking cursor. After a few hours of basic troubleshooting I brought the system back home with me and put my ssd back in it, and windows booted right up! I'm actually on it right now. Other than reinstalling Windows on his hard drive, do any of you have any idea what might be causing this issue and how to fix it? His Hard Drive was previously installed in his old system and worked fine. And after booting on my SSD, I can view the HDD as a second device and everything looks fine. I know the easy answer is to reinstall Windows but that is really not an option. Any Insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!

this is because the HDD will get mad that it doesnt recognize your new compnents. My suggestions (just recently went through this) associate your windows key to your Microsoft account, go to Microsofts website to get their bootable software to begin Windows installation, and proceed from there. 

[Xx_Nivlac_xX]

It is Windows 10 Pro. My system worked flawlessly, as this Windows ssd has been through 4 different systems no prob, but for some reason my buddy was the unlucky one. Is there any good way that I could reinstall Windows but keep his data? I don't have any spare drives I could clone his to unfortunately. I have the Windows key linked to his Microsoft account so that's okay. The only issue is losing all of his stuff. If I use the Windows 10 media to "upgrade" his system, will that work? I'm jut scared I'm gonna lose all his stuff and that would be really bad. Thanks for the replies

[Xx_Nivlac_xX]

I tried booting from my windows 10 install pendrive, and it was able to detect a Windows install and gave me the option to upgrade, I just didn't want to risk it until hearing from some others who have had success with this

[Xx_Nivlac_xX]

13 hours ago, Being Delirious said:

90% of the time it works.

Hey just tagging you because you said to lol. I am going to pick up his cpu and motherboard tonight to hopefully be able to boot back into Windows on the original hardware and pray that that works. Assuming that it does, what would be my best bet when I do that? Other than just installing drivers for the new hardware, is there anything else I should do to make the transition better? And if that still doesn't work is there any good way to make a backup, reinstall Windows and then restore? I don't really have much experience with this stuff since it's always just kinda worked for me. Any thoughts are greatly greatly appreciated :-)

[NTDaws]

25 minutes ago, Xx_Nivlac_xX said:

Hey just tagging you because you said to lol. I am going to pick up his cpu and motherboard tonight to hopefully be able to boot back into Windows on the original hardware and pray that that works. Assuming that it does, what would be my best bet when I do that? Other than just installing drivers for the new hardware, is there anything else I should do to make the transition better? And if that still doesn't work is there any good way to make a backup, reinstall Windows and then restore? I don't really have much experience with this stuff since it's always just kinda worked for me. Any thoughts are greatly greatly appreciated :-)

Recommend reinstalling windows.