blackscreen after bios splashscreen

[jsherwin33]

I took out my os hdd and put it in another computer. I Thought I could update some thing on it with the faster internet of the other computer.
When I put it back into my computer, It wouldn't go past the bios splash screen. Sometimes it would boot loop on the bios splash screen or it would go past it and a black screen would appear.
Also sometimes it would say "prepairing automatic repair" on the bios splash screen. Then, it would again either boot loop in the splash screen or go to the black screen.

I tried redownloading the windows 10 install onto my usb hoping that it would give me the option to repair my computer. It would show the windows symbol and the loading circles, but then it would go to the blackscreen. The weird thing was that it would go past the black screen and into the windows 10 setup if I disconnected my os hdd. Of course with that disconnected, I'm not able to do a startup repair. I already checked my boot priority and I put usb first and my os hdd last.



Here are my pc specs:
mobo- msi 970 gaming mobo
cpu- fx 6300 with hyper 212x cooler
ram- gskillz sniper ddr 3 1866
gpu- sapphire r9 380
hdd- WD blue 1TB
psu- seasonic gold 550W
Ive had my pc for almost 2 years

 

[Deleted member 1772425]

Did you handle the HDD with an anti-static wrist strap? You might have damaged it as hard drives are really, really fragile and sensitive to static electricity.

 

[jsherwin33]

Did you handle the HDD with an anti-static wrist strap? You might have damaged it as hard drives are really, really fragile and sensitive to static electricity.

I did not do that. Do you think my hard drive got fried?
when I put it in the other computer the data was still on there. What would be a good way of testing my hdd?

 

[Deleted member 1772425]

Did you handle the HDD with an anti-static wrist strap? You might have damaged it as hard drives are really, really fragile and sensitive to static electricity.

I did not do that. Do you think my hard drive got fried?
when I put it in the other computer the data was still on there. What would be a good way of testing my hdd?

Before we proceed, make sure the connections are tight and secure on the SATA data cable as well as the SATA power cable.

Good news is that your BIOS still seems to recognize the drive, so you know that, at the very least, the drive powers on. The thing is, if you're unable to go past the Windows 10 loading screen from your USB drive when the drive is plugged in, there's something that might have gone bad on the read/write mechanism of the drive or part of its data that stores important disk info has been corrupted.

You mentioned you took the drive and used it in another computer, so that would mean you are able to have 2 hard drives in the same computer. But first, you need to get your self a anti-static wrist strap in order to protect the drive from static electricity when you handle it. When both HDD are connected inside the same PC, you could boot into the working's HDD operating system and take a look at the "corrupted" drive, that is if you are able to go past the Windows loading screen. At this point, if you do, you could probably access the drive with Windows Explorer and save your important files on a USB flash drive or on the working HDD.

If it doesn't work at this stage, you could bring the HDD to a professional computer repair shop; some of them have a special tool that can potentially help you save important files. You might as well buy a new 1 TB hard drive for 40-50$; they are pretty cheap these days.

 

[jsherwin33]

Did you handle the HDD with an anti-static wrist strap? You might have damaged it as hard drives are really, really fragile and sensitive to static electricity.

I did not do that. Do you think my hard drive got fried?
when I put it in the other computer the data was still on there. What would be a good way of testing my hdd?

Before we proceed, make sure the connections are tight and secure on the SATA data cable as well as the SATA power cable.

Good news is that your BIOS still seems to recognize the drive, so you know that, at the very least, the drive powers on. The thing is, if you're unable to go past the Windows 10 loading screen from your USB drive when the drive is plugged in, there's something that might have gone bad on the read/write mechanism of the drive or part of its data that stores important disk info has been corrupted.

You mentioned you took the drive and used it in another computer, so that would mean you are able to have 2 hard drives in the same computer. But first, you need to get your self a anti-static wrist strap in order to protect the drive from static electricity when you handle it. When both HDD are connected inside the same PC, you could boot into the working's HDD operating system and take a look at the "corrupted" drive, that is if you are able to go past the Windows loading screen. At this point, if you do, you could probably access the drive with Windows Explorer and save your important files on a USB flash drive or on the working HDD.

If it doesn't work at this stage, you could bring the HDD to a professional computer repair shop; some of them have a special tool that can potentially help you save important files. You might as well buy a new 1 TB hard drive for 40-50$; they are pretty cheap these days.

Yeah, I might just try and get all the important files off and then format it and reinstall windows on it. Would I be able to get everything though? When I put it in another computer it says i don't own it and I need permission.

 

[Deleted member 1772425]

Did you handle the HDD with an anti-static wrist strap? You might have damaged it as hard drives are really, really fragile and sensitive to static electricity.

I did not do that. Do you think my hard drive got fried?
when I put it in the other computer the data was still on there. What would be a good way of testing my hdd?

Before we proceed, make sure the connections are tight and secure on the SATA data cable as well as the SATA power cable.

Good news is that your BIOS still seems to recognize the drive, so you know that, at the very least, the drive powers on. The thing is, if you're unable to go past the Windows 10 loading screen from your USB drive when the drive is plugged in, there's something that might have gone bad on the read/write mechanism of the drive or part of its data that stores important disk info has been corrupted.

You mentioned you took the drive and used it in another computer, so that would mean you are able to have 2 hard drives in the same computer. But first, you need to get your self a anti-static wrist strap in order to protect the drive from static electricity when you handle it. When both HDD are connected inside the same PC, you could boot into the working's HDD operating system and take a look at the "corrupted" drive, that is if you are able to go past the Windows loading screen. At this point, if you do, you could probably access the drive with Windows Explorer and save your important files on a USB flash drive or on the working HDD.

If it doesn't work at this stage, you could bring the HDD to a professional computer repair shop; some of them have a special tool that can potentially help you save important files. You might as well buy a new 1 TB hard drive for 40-50$; they are pretty cheap these days.

Yeah, I might just try and get all the important files off and then format it and reinstall windows on it. Would I be able to get everything though? When I put it in another computer it says i don't own it and I need permission.

When you say "everything", you actually mean all your important files including the softwares and games and the system files, right? In this case, I don't know whether it is possible or not. If I were you, I'd only take the important files (save games, photos, documents, etc) and format/install.

For the permissions issue, I think you could try and boot from a Linux live USB, like Ubuntu, and bypass the Windows permissions.

 

[jsherwin33]

I just downloaded windows 10 onto my spare 250 gb hdd. Is there a way to delete windows off of my old hdd and just keep the existing programs on it so I don't have to reinstall them onto my new hd?

 

[Deleted member 1772425]

I just downloaded windows 10 onto my spare 250 gb hdd. Is there a way to delete windows off of my old hdd and just keep the existing programs on it so I don't have to reinstall them onto my new hd?

You are most likely going to have to reinstall them, unfortunately. It might take a while, but at least, you're going to have a functional PC.

 

[jsherwin33]

I just downloaded windows 10 onto my spare 250 gb hdd. Is there a way to delete windows off of my old hdd and just keep the existing programs on it so I don't have to reinstall them onto my new hd?

You are most likely going to have to reinstall them, unfortunately. It might take a while, but at least, you're going to have a functional PC.

There's no way to delete windows off the old drive and run programs off of it?

 

[Deleted member 1772425]

I just downloaded windows 10 onto my spare 250 gb hdd. Is there a way to delete windows off of my old hdd and just keep the existing programs on it so I don't have to reinstall them onto my new hd?

You are most likely going to have to reinstall them, unfortunately. It might take a while, but at least, you're going to have a functional PC.

There's no way to delete windows off the old drive and run programs off of it?

No, I meant you're not going to be able to delete the windows system files and keep the already installed programs that were on there (at the same time); you're going to have to wipe/format the drive and use it to install programs on it later on, or any data you want.

 

[jsherwin33]

I just downloaded windows 10 onto my spare 250 gb hdd. Is there a way to delete windows off of my old hdd and just keep the existing programs on it so I don't have to reinstall them onto my new hd?

You are most likely going to have to reinstall them, unfortunately. It might take a while, but at least, you're going to have a functional PC.

There's no way to delete windows off the old drive and run programs off of it?

No, I meant you're not going to be able to delete the windows system files and keep the already installed programs that were on there (at the same time); you're going to have to wipe/format the drive and use it to install programs on it later on, or any data you want.

ok thanks