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
    2018-08-25T15:55:25+00:00

    I was about to perform those steps when I booted, but saw my Windows login screen instead of the USB drive for repair :)

    HDD is still unhooked.

    I immediately created a restore point. 

    Because I am afraid to reboot, can I do some tests or so in Windows?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-25T15:27:21+00:00

    Hi,

    I don't know much about the error codes except that the 0x0 seems to mean "Normal" as in no error...

    The "Test metadata of drive errorcode 0x32", from what I could find, mentions corruption from a power failure, which is what triggered this in the first place...

    I don't know if it would help to use the command prompt on the installation media to run ChkDsk or not, but it's worth a try...

    Use this... chkdsk /f /r C:

    Then try the two startup repairs again...

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-25T15:09:23+00:00

    Thanks again for your help. 

    I hope we are a step further now!

    After booting the drive I first tried startup repair, not working.

    FIXMBR does work (as allways), FIXBOOT not, REBUILDBCD did work. 

    After that I runned startup repair again, not working but created a logfile.

    I openend the logfile from the SSD using Lubuntu. It gives C:\Windows as Windows-map and runned tests:

    • Looking for updates errorcode 0x0
    • Test of systemdrive errorcode 0x0
    • Diagnose of write-error errorcode 0x0
    • Test metadata of drive errorcode 0x32

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-25T14:18:06+00:00

    Hi,

    Your machine is definitely not UEFI... It clearly states that the drive is "Basic\MBR"... It is already set to "Active" and identified as Boot...

    The thing to do now is to create a installation Flash Drive specifically for Legacy Bios... This picture is for Win 7, but the settings are what you want... Just the ISO name is different...

    Then just boot with the flash drive normally... Don't bother to mess with the boot options stuff... It should be recognized properly...

    It would be best to leave the HDD unhooked for now...

    Don't mess with the Fix MBR and Boot.ini stuff... Windows 10 does not use the Boot.ini... That is leftover from XP...

    Messing with the Rebuild MBR is dangerous... One little mistake and you are out of luck...

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-25T09:59:48+00:00

    Sure, otherwise I couldn't boot from it because I then get an error from the SSD when trying to boot from SSD.

    Please see the edit of my post above.

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