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‎03-12-2023 12:54 PM

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Product: HP Compaq Elite 8300 Base Model Small Form Factor PC

This is fairly complicated to explain, so I'm going to leave it in bullet points:

Me and my dad received an older but better pc from my uncle.

We decided to upgrade my pc using some of its parts.

We take everything out of my pc, including my SSD and hard drive. (The PC was originally running from the SSD so it could  be faster and use the hard drive as storage.)

Then we realize we couldn't actually use any of the parts from the old PC.

I put everything back in, and the PC wouldn't boot.

At first, we had some problems with the DIMMs, but we ended up finding a solution.

HOWEVER.

After the DIMM fiasco, we found out that the PC now had no idea which drive to run off of. The SSD, or the hard drive. At this point, we've tried so many different things that I'm not even sure what we did anymore. There SHOULD be system files on the SSD, but according to the PC itself there isn't. When I boot it, I always get the "Windows could not finish installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the program of installation." (That's not the exact translation, for some reason the PC decided it wanted to go French.) 

Since we had another older PC lying around, we used that hard drive and connected it to my SSD. We booted that, and tried to take all its (the SSD) files away to leave only the windows files. Frankly, I'm not sure what we did here. We could've deleted all the system files as well, I have no idea. Point is, I have no idea what to do now. Help?

 

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