PC can't boot up!! :(

[rimeblade]

It was working fine this morning but then in the afternoon my hand itchy so I opened it up to do cable management. Then after I was done, it cannot boot up anymore

I set my SSD (with windows 10 installed) as the boot drive, then when I reboot, it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key".

Then, using the windows 8 CD, I tried to refresh but it says my drive is locked. I tried resetting and it says a required partition is missing. Lastly I tried to install windows 8 again but it told me "This computer started using the windows installation media. Remove the installation media and restart your computer so that Windows starts normally. Then, insert the installation media and restart the upgrade."


I really dont know what to do anymore any help will be greatly appreciated

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Could it be you never plug the sata properly?

 

[rimeblade]

Could it be you never plug the sata properly?

I unplugged and plugged it many times with different cables alr

 

[kaixax555]

I unplugged and plugged it many times with different cables alr

did you plug all into the correct mobo SATA ports?

 

[xtractor]

unplug ur ssd,leave it unused and try to install ur windows at ur HDD.see whether it works

 

[Koenig168]

I suggest you unplug all the HDD and try with only the SSD. Check that both the SATA cable and power cable are firmly attached.

You probably bumped something during cable management. It happens, not a big deal.

Do check that everything else is properly connected as well.

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

but did u check the boot disk in bios?

 

[rimeblade]

did you plug all into the correct mobo SATA ports?

Yeah, I checked already

 

[Elijahonli]

go to bios make sure both ur ssd and 1tb hdd is detected.

when trying to install a new copy of windows, remove/disable ALL HDD/SSDs except for the one u are going to install windows in. Delete/Remove all the partitions, then click the unformated disk and install it....

 

[rimeblade]

unplug ur ssd,leave it unused and try to install ur windows at ur HDD.see whether it works

ok going to try now!

I suggest you unplug all the HDD and try with only the SSD. Check that both the SATA cable and power cable are firmly attached.

You probably bumped something during cable management. It happens, not a big deal.

Do check that everything else is properly connected as well.

yeah doubled checked again and unplugged other HDD liao, still cannot

but did u check the boot disk in bios?

not sure what you mean, but I set my SSD as Boot Option #1

go to bios make sure both ur ssd and 1tb hdd is detected.

when trying to install a new copy of windows, remove/disable ALL HDD/SSDs except for the one u are going to install windows in. Delete/Remove all the partitions, then click the unformated disk and install it....

ok trying now !!

 

[rimeblade]

ok I just tried to re-install windows 8 but this screen keeps showing.

so I unplugged my USB DVD Burner (that I used to install windows 8 two years ago) and nothing happened, I think I'm doing it wrong. any advice?

edit: not sure how to insert pic but basically it's a chunk of text saying "The computer started using the windows installation media. Remove the installation media and restart your computer so that Windows starts normally. Then, insert the installation media and restart the upgrade. Do not select [Custom (advanced)] to perform an upgrade. [Custom (advanced)] installs a new copy of Windows and deletes your programs and settings."

 

[Elijahonli]

ok I just tried to re-install windows 8 but this screen keeps showing.

so I unplugged my USB DVD Burner (that I used to install windows 8 two years ago) and nothing happened, I think I'm doing it wrong. any advice?

edit: not sure how to insert pic but basically it's a chunk of text saying "The computer started using the windows installation media. Remove the installation media and restart your computer so that Windows starts normally. Then, insert the installation media and restart the upgrade. Do not select [Custom (advanced)] to perform an upgrade. [Custom (advanced)] installs a new copy of Windows and deletes your programs and settings."

help u fix ur image

when u are doing the installation, did u click upgrade or custom ?

if u are using upgrade, u are doing it wrong. Please use custom, and follow my previous post of deleting all partitions from the disk drive u are re-installing ur os on and remove all other hdds

 

[xtractor]

need to have a clean install ....

follow elijahonli steps

 

[rimeblade]

if u are using upgrade, u are doing it wrong. Please use custom, and follow my previous post of deleting all partitions from the disk drive u are re-installing ur os on and remove all other hdds

need to have a clean install ....

follow elijahonli steps

yeah thanks guys, in the process of clean install now. appreciate the help
grieving the loss of my data

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

So did TS formatted his SSD or have not? And is the SSD the only connecting storage device to his PC?

 

[rimeblade]

So did TS formatted his SSD or have not? And is the SSD the only connecting storage device to his PC?

yeah,formatting now.

before that I tried booting my PC with only the SSD but it failed too

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

yeah,formatting now.

before that I tried booting my PC with only the SSD but it failed too

So weird lei...u installed win10 and sh*t Coc* up Or use awhile and it coc* up?

 

[jtjt00]

Maybe the MBAis resided on drive other than OS SSD. As such, you can't boot once the other drive is removed. This issue is faced by users who upgrade to SSD from HDD but fail to disconnect HDD during SSD OS setup.

 

[rimeblade]

So weird lei...u installed win10 and sh*t Coc* up Or use awhile and it coc* up?

I used Win10 for a while alr, no problems. Not sure what happened also. Anyway now Win10 gone alr, back to windows 8 D:

 

[rimeblade]

Maybe the MBAis resided on drive other than OS SSD. As such, you can't boot once the other drive is removed. This issue is faced by users who upgrade to SSD from HDD but fail to disconnect HDD during SSD OS setup.

but my OS had been installed on my SSD from the start :O
honestly building my own PC is fun but when all these stuff happens ah haiz