attempting boot from harddrive

[butch72]

after placing an ssd, i am getting that notification. nothing else happens.

i checked the bios, but i noticed i cant change the boot sequence(ssd first, other harddrive second place) so i changed the sata cables too let the ssd be the startup disc.

anyone who can help?

the ssd has already an os installed

[WAWood]

butch72

Hello;

I read your post about your boot problems and wanted to help.

Any HP preinstalled PC will come with at least three partitions on the hard drive (system reserved or efi, OS, Recovery).

When you "migrate" from an HDD to an SDD, you need to copy more than just the OS partition. In the case of Win7 or older, you need the system reserved partition, as well.  In the case of Win8 or newer, you need the efi partition.

These other partitions contain the Windows boot loader files. Without those, your PC will not boot.

You need to reboot from hour HDD and see which extra partition you need to copy over to your SDD.

Good Luck

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[butch72]

manu thanks for the reply. the ssd has an active windows ten installation, but the workstation doesnt boot, it just gives me the notification 'attempting boot from harddrive'

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

Sorry, from your description, I thought you might have "migrated" Win10 from the HDD to the SDD, and when folks do that by copying partitions, they nearly always forget to migrate the partition including the boot loader files.

So, you did a clean-install of Win10 to the SSD?

If that's the case, you might be able to repair it by running Startup Repair from win10 install media.

To do this, you will need to use the link to download Win10 installation media and either burn a DVD or create a USB stick: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install?ocid=ms_wol_win10

Note that when you go do download and build install media, the tool defaults to matching what is already installed on your PC (as in, Home for Home, 64-bit for 64-bit).  While you CAN change these settings, do NOT.  If you do, the resulting media will be different and will force you to enter a NEW product code!

Then, follow these directions to run Startup Repair: Doing Startup-Repair

You may have to do that same set of steps three times.

Good Luck

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