Praticular Problem with Windows 7 booting.

[Veczen]

This is the story of how it happened, if you want to get to the problem you can skip ahead to the seperated part.
So this morning i decided to take out the second HDD out of my new rig since yesterday i had transfered all the files that i needed from it on the HDD i was gonna be using. The reason being i needed the second one for my bro's PC which is made from the left over parts. Anyway, i turn on the PC: "BootMGR is missing press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" i restart... same thing... i try to use my Windows 7 disc... it doesn't work... (and just so you know my Windows 7 disc is like super old and im too lazy to download a newer version from microsoft and put it on a USB) after awhile i decide to put back the other HDD back.


So here is what happened, when i was installing Windows on the drive i wanna use i had the other drive as the boot one and i had it still even after installing Windows so i was starting my windows through the other Windows (which doesn't work on this PC) and so i have deemed that the Bootmgr does not exist on the current Windows i am using. And so the question is: Is there a way to take the bootmsg to my current Windows or do i have to reinstall?

[MrDrWho13]

You've come to the right conclusion but I'm pretty sure you need to re-install (with the other drive disconnected) in order for Windows to place the boot manager there.

[EPPHO]

Windows restore might help if you can do it through disc. It helped me one time with the same problem but sometimes it won't even do the restore.

[Veczen]

19 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

You've come to the right conclusion but I'm pretty sure you need to re-install (with the other drive disconnected) in order for Windows to place the boot manager there.

Yeah i know what i have to do, the only problem is that i have to go dig through my appdata folders and back them up on the other portion of the disk. So Im gonna wait until the end of the day to see if there will be any other way. Cause i literally had to install updates and drivers for like 3 hours. For some reason it took more time than when i did it with my previous rig, which was, as would anyone guess, quite slower.

[Veczen]

19 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

Windows restore might help if you can do it through disc. It helped me one time with the same problem but sometimes it won't even do the restore.

Well it doesn't work and the only restore i found was from 2011 which i have a bad feeling for.

[MrDrWho13]

Just now, Veczen said:

Yeah i know what i have to do, the only problem is that i have to go dig through my appdata folders and back them up on the other portion of the disk. So Im gonna wait until the end of the day to see if there will be any other way. Cause i literally had to install updates and drivers for like 3 hours. For some reason it took more time than when i did it with my previous rig, which was, as would anyone guess, quite slower.

imo this would be a good time to get an SSD for your boot drive. It improves the performance of your computer and is well worth the money.

[Veczen]

2 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

imo this would be a good time to get an SSD for your boot drive. It improves the performance of your computer and is well worth the money.

Yeah, but i literally just upgraded yesterday so it's gonna take some time for my budget to be enough. But while on the subject should i go for an M.2 A+B or should i get a regular SSD. Cause i kinda have room for both (would be weird if i didn't have room for the M.2)

[MrDrWho13]

1 minute ago, Veczen said:

Yeah, but i literally just upgraded yesterday so it's gonna take some time for my budget to be enough. But while on the subject should i go for an M.2 A+B or should i get a regular SSD. Cause i kinda have room for both (would be weird if i didn't have room for the M.2)

Whatever you can afford really. Obviously an M.2 pcie drive would be faster but a SATA drive would still be a night and day difference compared to a HDD. For a boot drive with programs and games on you're looking at 250-500GB.

[Veczen]

1 minute ago, MrDrWho13 said:

Whatever you can afford really. Obviously an M.2 pcie drive would be faster but a SATA drive would still be a night and day difference compared to a HDD. For a boot drive with programs and games on you're looking at 250-500GB.

Right now the top 1 and 2 on my best online store are the Samsung 850 and 960 EVO, the first being (ssd) 250 gig and the second (m.2) 256. The M.2 for me it would cost around 120$ while the SSD a bit less than 90$.

[MrDrWho13]

Just now, Veczen said:

Right now the top 1 and 2 on my best online store are the Samsung 850 and 960 EVO, the first being (ssd) 250 gig and the second (m.2) 256. The M.2 for me it would cost around 120$ while the SSD a bit less than 90$.

For the best performance, an M.2 drive would be better. Those prices are pretty reasonable IMO so it's whatever you think is best. the standard SATA SSD would still be a significant improvement. How much is a 500GB SATA SSD? It might be worth buying the slightly lower speed for more storage space.

[Veczen]

Just now, MrDrWho13 said:

For the best performance, an M.2 drive would be better. Those prices are pretty reasonable IMO so it's whatever you think is best. the standard SATA SSD would still be a significant improvement. How much is a 500GB SATA SSD? It might be worth buying the slightly lower speed for more storage space.

Well the Samsung 850 EVO (and pretty much most of them) cost around 150$. But i found an odd one from HP for 85$. Also two M.2's from Samsung and Crucial also for 150$ And they're actually a bit more in terms of Gb. But i kinda want to spend my next budet on some AIO watercooling since my current CPU cooler is like a 95-100W TDP and my CPU has like a heckton of overclocking space.