PC won't boot to Windows 10 from SSD

Anonymous
2018-08-20T08:11:17+00:00

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)

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-26T11:18:05+00:00

    Thanks. I indeed mean to reference to DISM.exe and sfc.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-26T11:17:20+00:00

    USB drives are recognised at the ports in the back of the PC, but not in the front. 

    The "repair" USB drive is in the front and is recognised always.

    Legacy USB support is still on.

    Rebooting and shutdown + new boot all worked with the "repair" USB drive plugged in.

    I removed the "repair" USB drive in Windows and tried to shutdown. The PC was stuck at the shutting down screen with spinning dots for more than 20 minutes before I did a hard shutdown. 

    After that I tried to boot without the USB drive and again the no OS installed error..

    EDIT: repaired again using the USB drive, sfc and DISM find no errors afterwards.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-26T11:01:01+00:00

    repair commands in Windows

    There is also  sfc /scannow

    FYI

    Robert Aldwinckle

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-26T09:22:30+00:00
    • The USB drive was the flash drive for the repair.
    • It was plugged in.
    • There is a folder Boot on the same partition as the data. I need to check if there is another partition on the hdd, but I don't think so.

    EDIT: Something strange: I booted the USB repair drive while the ssd was on priority 1. I repaired as usual, clicked Go to Windows 10 and rebooted. Then I got the No OS found error and changed boot priority to the USB drive at 1. Then I booted and got straight into Windows 10.

    Seems like the USB drive has to be present to have no problems?..

    I am trying the repair commands in Windows now.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-26T02:06:15+00:00

    Hi,

    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...

    It works pretty much like doing an upgrade from installation media...

    You would just run the SETUP from within Windows...

    It actually works better than a reset or refresh because you lose nothing...

    You just need installation media of the same version you are running or higher... I just tested this on my machine for both Windows 7 and 10, and both were successful...

    Just something to think about...

    BTW... What is on your HDD ?

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