Help needed with an SSD install!

[Nocky24]

I've recently bought a new ssd (M4) and installed it on my pc - that went fine no problem.

I then went to install my old 128gb ssd in another machine, however I left the other current (old) os drive connected while I was reinstalling w7 (I'm guessing this has caused the issue that I'm going to explain). The install went fine, however after I disconnected the old hdd and left the 128gb ssd in, it now doesn't recognise the ssd as a bootable device.

Is there anything I can do other than do a reinstall to get round this?

 

[SouthEastBlue]

Did you install Windows on the SSD while other drives were connected to the system? If so it can put the boot files on another drive, so when that drive is removed it can't boot Windows which is located on the SSD it's installed on.

If you run the Windows 7 disk again (with all drives removed other than the SSD you want as your boot drive) and run repair on it. I had to do this on a hard drive before as it installed the boot part of the install on another drive, but took two tries of Windows repair to fix it and create new boot files on the OS drive.

Hope you understand the above!

 

[Nocky24]

Cheers yeh that's exactly it! I managed to find a useful bootmgr tool called easybcd which has sorted it. Transferred the boot files over from the other drive to the ssd making it active now.

Thanks for confirming it was that and sorry to the mods for posting in the wrong location!

 

[CEUOTC]

I've recently bought a new ssd (M4) and installed it on my pc - that went fine no problem.

I then went to install my old 128gb ssd in another machine, however I left the other current (old) os drive connected while I was reinstalling w7 (I'm guessing this has caused the issue that I'm going to explain). The install went fine, however after I disconnected the old hdd and left the 128gb ssd in, it now doesn't recognise the ssd as a bootable device.

Is there anything I can do other than do a reinstall to get round this?

Hi fella,

I had a very similar problem with my M11x R3, using my Alien Re-spawn it would install my OS onto my SSD, however it would come up with no bootable device found after re-boot.

To get round this l used a legit USB copy of W7 64 to reinstall windows 7, once installed l then re-ran Alienware Re-spawn and it worked like a charm.

I guess it was missing the essential windows 7 boot partition?

Here is a cheeky guide to help get windows 7 running again on your SSD.

1. Download this legal iso of windows 7 http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/. Select your flavour 64 or 32 bit.
2. Use Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to create a bootable USB stick (8GB to 16GB required).
3. Once installed use key on bottom of laptop/Desktop.

Regards.

C.