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
    2018-08-26T15:26:38+00:00

    When I make the 

    • SSD System partition active and HDD hidden+unactive OR 
    • SSD main partition active and HDD hidden+unactive,

    I get the error "can't find element" at fixboot and rebuildbcd.

    After that I unhooked the HDD again, I was able to repair the pc using the usb drive.

    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.

    With the USB drive plugged in agian, I got the element not found error again.

    The ports in the front are USB 3.0, I now only used USB 2.0 drives.

    The BIOS setting "USB 3.0 Controller" still stands on Enabled.

    I need to find a DVD to test your other suggestion. May those be RW, or better not so the PC couldn't write boot files on it?

    I only have some 700MB CD+R available.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-26T17:02:55+00:00

    When I make the 

    • SSD System partition active and HDD hidden+unactive OR 
    • SSD main partition active and HDD hidden+unactive,

    I get the error "can't find element" at fixboot and rebuildbcd.

    Same for SSD main partition active + HDD unactive but not hidden.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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