PC won't boot to Windows 10 from SSD

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I bought my PC years ago with only a HDD. I added a SSD myself afterwards. When I booted my PC after a hard shutdown/electricity fallout I had only my HDD in BIOS. I then boot from HDD, get an error and let the PC reboot. After a few times the SSD would be recognized in BIOS and I could change the SSD to default.

I got tired of this proccess a few days ago and found a tip to disable the hdd-partition with diskpart. The first time I had a hardreset again (mouse and keyboard froze and pc didn't shutdown with a single press on startbutton), I couldn't do the HDD boot-trick and tried changing the cables from hdd to ssd (ssd in sata1). This didn't help. In diskpart I made the SSD partition active. I now can see the SSD in BIOS, but booting gives an error "An operating system wasn't found.". When I retry diskpart, the partition could be made active again. It seems like this resets..

Bootrec.exe /FixMbr was successful

Bootrec.exe /FixBoot gives no access error (there could be some parts left of a dual boot setup)

chkdsk gives no problems found

Mediatool boot:

This PC can't be recovered with start-uprepair.
You need to choose which installation of Windows you would like to put back when using Systemrecovery.
Reboot, select a operating system and select Systemrecovery. No systemcopy available.

How could I make my pc boot again?

PC: MEDION AKOYA P5367 D EU (MSN: 10015458)

Motherboard: MS-7728

BIOS version: E7728MLN.209

SSD: Kingston SV200 (128GB)

HDD: ST1509DL003-9V (1500GB)

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Anonymous

2018-08-26T17:37:29+00:00

Hi,

Yes... either eject the flash drive in This PC, or restart and pull it out the moment the screen goes black...
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Anonymous

2018-08-26T17:35:21+00:00

Hi,

Yes... that is what the tools in windows do... They give you a "Fresh" installation...

What I am suggesting is running your installation media from within Windows after the machine is running...

This works exactly like upgrading to a newer build and keeping everything... It is not exactly "Fresh" because it retains stuff..

You would want to run this either from the DVD, or with a Virtual Drive and using the ISO...

If you right click on the ISO you should see something about "Mount"...

If you don't, select "Open With" Windows Explorer... This will create a temporary Virtual Drive on your computer...

We need to get the flash drive out of the picture...

There is a chance that any type of repairs as we mentioned may not fix the boot files, but it should... It needs to restart for the upgrade several times and should create new boot files...

If you do this, unhook the HDD...
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Anonymous

2018-08-26T17:28:46+00:00

Thanks again for your reply.

So you mean removing the USB drive when Windows is still active?

Please see my post above as well, you're post was right after it ;)
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Anonymous

2018-08-26T17:21:19+00:00

Hi,

A DVD RW will probably work.. providing it is big enough...

I don't think the repair media can burn to a DVD...

I hooked on the HDD (still unactive+hidden) and was able to boot to Windows again.I then shutted down, removed the USB drive and the OS not found error occurred again.

A restart would be better, at least for the first try...
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Anonymous

2018-08-26T17:18:46+00:00

Something else to consider... You can do a "REPAIR" installation of Windows 10 without losing anything... You may need to reinstall a driver, and may need to reset some of your settings, but nothing drastic...

I can only find a tool in Windows to keep files but remove "apps and settings". This seems to remove my installed programs as wel?
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