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
    2018-08-27T20:57:47+00:00

    Hi,

    Where are you finding this Boot X: drive\partition ?

    It might be helpful...

    I'm not finding this anywhere...

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T20:47:04+00:00

    I maybe could better format the HDD also, to be sure that the Boot folder in the HDD and other problemfiles are deleted as well?

    I see in notepad a Boot X: drive/partition. In diskpart I can't find that one. It is filled with 3MB of 507MB. Could this help us forward easily?

    I will just boot a Lubuntu to save some files and delete everything else. Luckily I did backup folders with my data.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T20:36:06+00:00

    Hi,

    At this point that may be the best thing... Everything else that normally works is not working... I think that is partly due to the fact that HDD was hooked up when you installed to the SSD, but power failures don't help anything... Be sure to keep the HDD unhooked until everything is done...

    In the future, you might consider keeping backup images of your OS with something like Acronis TrueImage... It's has special pricing frequently...

    There are some free ones available, but you do not want one that requires installation to create bootable media... You need to boot with the imaging recovery program to restore Windows...

    Acronis comes on a CD that is bootable... You can also make a ISO of the CD and burn it to a Flash Drive... You can probably find bootable ISOs already created online...

    If you have files that you want to save, you can boot with the flash drive and go to the command prompt and type in notepad.exe...

    Copy\Paste From Bootable Command Prompt...

    This basically works the same as any Copy\Past Function...

    The screens that you work from just look different...

    The drives letters will be different than from within Windows,

    but their names will be the same..

    Boot computer from installation media...

    Select "Repair" on the lower left of the "INSTALL" screen...

    Select Troubleshoot.... Command Prompt

    Enter NotePad into Command Prompt and hit Enter...

    Click on "FILE" Tab and select "OPEN"

    Click on ThisPC or use the Dropdown menu to browse to the files you want to copy...

    Right click on desired files and select "Copy" as normal...

    Browse to the location you wish to save the files and select "Paste", again as normal...

    Ignore anything on the bottom of the window concerning "SAVE", "CANCEL", "File Type", and ETC...

    EDIT... If you do this, DELETE Everything on the SSD, then click on "NEW" and let Windows Format it as it wishes... You will probably end up with two partitions... A System Reserved (recovery) and the OS partition...

    EDIT #2... Do not use one of the flash drives that may have incorrect boot files on it... Either create a new one with BIOS\MBR, and NTFS, or use the DVD...

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T20:26:12+00:00

    No, same problem as the DVD.

    I did the 3 bootrec commands from the USB drive, still the same problem.

    Seems like I won't be in Windows again?..

    I am almost at the point that I give up and do a total format..

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T20:04:37+00:00

    Hi,

    You should eject the DVD before rebooting, but that maybe doesn't matter anymore...

    It still might boot to Windows with a Flash Drive plugged in..

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