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
    2018-08-27T15:00:28+00:00

    The SSD isn't 1st boot device. It gives the no OS found error then.

    It actually is the USB drive..

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T15:03:50+00:00

    Hi,

    The SSD then needs to be the 2nd Boot Device so that it is selected when the Flash Drive is not plugged...

    Try changing it to the SSD with the Flash Drive plugged in temporarily...

    Then if you need to boot with the flash drive, you can use the Boot Options menu... Just to try and figure what the heck the problem is..

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T15:07:02+00:00

    Something else to check out of curiosity... Look in MSCONFIG at the BOOT Tab... Do you see more then one OS listed ?

    Only 1 OS, Windows 10 Home (marked as current)

    Another option would be to try the repair again with the HDD hooked up and "Not Hidden"... Maybe the needed boot files can be found there, since it was hooked up when you installed Win 10 to the SSD...

    I am now trying this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T15:20:33+00:00

    This install from within Windows stops at "Checking if there is enough free space available". When I plug in the USB drive again, the install is continued..

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-27T15:26:46+00:00

    Hi,

    I will leave it up to you to decide what next...

    Did the install continue with out the HDD hooked up and flash drive plugged in ?

    I know one generated an error about the System Reserved, and another about the Safe_OS Phase, but lost track of which...

    I will have to put all the communications on a PDF or something, I think..

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