Same components, new case - insert boot media

rharris118 · 3 Dec 2015 at 00:20

Hi I've just moved my components into a new case but now it won't boot.

Windows 10, z97-sli based pc.

It was working fine this morning, I've moved everything over to a new case and all I get is insert boot media. I tried an Ubuntu live usb stick which shows my drives but I can't access them in that. I get an error saying that basically windows is hibernate so can't access it because it's in a fragile state.
I've no idea how to sort this. Everything shows up fine in the bios. Any ideas?

Daniee · 3 Dec 2015 at 00:38

More than one hard drive? Are they plugged into the same SATA ports as before?

Might try pressing the boot options key at startup, F11 I think it is or going into the bios and changing the boot priority to your main drive.

rharris118 · 3 Dec 2015 at 00:42

Tried that, same result. I've have 2 Samsung 850 evo 250gb ssd's and a 2tb WD black. Originally had them in the same sata ports, Tried different ports, Tried changing boot order. No joy.

Forgot to say, in Ubuntu, I get the same error for all 3 drives. Even though windows is only on 1 of the ssd's and just games and documents etc on the others.

teenwolf · 3 Dec 2015 at 00:53

Did you have all the drives connected when you originally installed Windows ?
Then one of those has the boot partition on it, you need to have that drive to boot first

Just connect all the drives, go to bios and make a drive primary then reboot and so on until you choose the correct one

rharris118 · 3 Dec 2015 at 00:54

what I have found out so far from the ubuntu forums is that it wont mount into ubuntu because of the hyberfil.sys file. It looks like the fast boot of windows 10 hibernates the pc which explains why I cant get at it in ubuntu without using read only. But that doesnt explain to me why it wont just boot into windows.

rharris118 · 3 Dec 2015 at 00:56

teenwolf said:
Did you have all the drives connected when you originally installed Windows ?
Then one of those has the boot partition on it, you need to have that drive to boot first

Originally no, I had just the 1 ssd and the 1tb hdd, I then added the 2nd SSD a few weeks ago but it has been working perfectly fine since.

teenwolf · 3 Dec 2015 at 00:58

Remove the 2nd ssd for now. Connect the 2 drives and change the boot order for each of them, save and restart afterwards

rharris118 · 3 Dec 2015 at 01:27

Just done that, and plugged them back into the original sata ports (how windows was installed) still no change.