Boot Problems

Jordan711 · 17 Sep 2012 at 15:39

I got a new hard drive and I previously had two hard drives, one with windows and one with the rest of my files.

So I plugged in my new hard drive and installed windows onto it. Then when all that was done I moved some files I had on the previous windows hard drive to my new one. Then I shut down and disconnected it to connect my other hard drive with all the rest of my files on to it and when I started the computer it said something along the lines of "reboot and select correct boot device or bootable media" so I went into the BIOS to check the boot list and it was fine and still nothing so I went back in and disabled all other boot devices and still nothing.

So how can I get it to work is there something else I have to select in the BIOS because it only seems to boot when the old windows drive is plugged in.

Idleman · 17 Sep 2012 at 16:06

What hdd`s do you have?

Jordan711 · 17 Sep 2012 at 16:13

New Boot - 1tb Samsung F3

Old Boot - 70gb 2.5in Hitachi

Old Storage- 250gb xbox hard drive

Idleman · 17 Sep 2012 at 16:43

Have you tried repairing windows, using your OS disc?

Orcvader · 17 Sep 2012 at 18:16

Looks like some of the boot files went to the old drive. This is why you always install Windows with only one drive installed.

Disconnect every drive except for the boot drive, then run Windows repair with the disk and it should fix it. You can also delete the 100mb partition on the old drive if you don't plan to boot from the old drive anymore.