Temporarily removed HDD now windows wont boot

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elpenguino

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#207685 8-Jan-2017 20:13

Zoners i am puzzled, can you help?

I was helping an in-law by fixing her laptop. I removed MY HDD from MY laptop and tested her HDD in my laptop. It passed all the tests FWIW (seatools).

I have put my HDD back in my laptop and now windows 7 Pro glitches when it gets into the boot up sequence. Cant remember if it is before or after password entry but it doesnt fail at the first showing of the windows logo , it is a bit later on.

I am puzzled as i cant see what would have changed with my disk image with the removal and replacement.

We work around the boot glitch by doing a BIOS RAM check and then windows seems to boot ok (My 9 year old discovered this).

My 2 questions:

a-what has changed with my disc image ?

b- how do I fix windows so it just boots ok?

Cheers,

Chris

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#1700299 8-Jan-2017 20:22

Go into the UEFI setup and check the boot device is still set. Since the other HDD would have had a different signature it may have reset it.

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#1700319 8-Jan-2017 21:03

my HP pro laptop didnt like the SDD I bought for it.. every boot it would say no found.. then I just

click esc to exit and the windows boot options come up fine and boots to windows..

thats a bios firmware issue.. perhaps SDD to fast..

so your not the only one get weirdness like glitches lol

but if can boot into windows I find that EasyBCD 2.2 to check the boot settings via a nice gui

I think windows can place the boot files on any drive in the system

or change the partitions around

elpenguino

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#1700322 8-Jan-2017 21:28

thanks gents. forgot to say this is HP NC8430 about 8-9 years old so not sure if it has UEFI. I couldn't see mention of UEFI in the BIOS.

I changed the boot priority of the HDD to a higher priority and it booted ok after that.

I couldn't see many other settings for HDD in the BIOS so it was one of the few settings available to fiddle with apart from 'native mode' which I hadn't (and haven't) changed at any point.

cheers,

chris

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#1700470 9-Jan-2017 11:19

Did this recently, BIOS somehow got corrupted, but my motherboard restored from backup automatically - eventually. I have UEFI and BIOS, older processor with new motherboard. Worth considering.

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#1700503 9-Jan-2017 13:15

Uefi = replacement of bios in modern motherboards