Casper laptop wont boot

[Sidar_]

Hello everyone i bought my laptop about 2 years ago. About a year ago i experienced some issues with the hdd so i began using my old laptops hdd which had an 32 bit windows 8. I wanted to make it 64 bit, on the tutorials i followed it said I had to upgrade to windows 10 first and i did it without any problems. Then I made a data partition from my c drive and unzipped the 64 bit windows files there, and marked disk as active. After resetting the pc, it boots into bios, it does see my hdd but i cant boot into windows at all. Please help me, I have to hand in my final project to my teacher and all my work was in that drive. Thanks in advance

 

[Barty1884]

I've never heard of converting from 32bit to 64bit the way you've described, a clean install would be required - along with validating your hardware.

Your biggest problem likely stems from the fact your are running an OS that was originally installed on another laptop - I'm assuming you didn't perform a clean install of W8 when you transferred it over?

There's likely so many conflicts going on on that HDD at the moment, I'm really not sure where to start.

To recover the data urgently, I would suggest you grab an external 2.5" enclosure for your HDD. Attach it to another (operational) laptop/desktop and explore the drive to recover the necessary data & backup what you can't afford to lose.

From there, a clean install of the OS is likely your best bet. Do you still have the HDD you were having problems with? It might be simpler to address that issue & get everything up & running again.

 

[SkyNetRising]

To fix that you will need to boot from windows installation media and perform recovery steps.
But since you obviously are trying to do things with little knowledge and zero experience,
I'd suggest you better seek support from professional computer repair services than doing it yourself.

 

[Sidar_]

Thanks for the help guys. I didnt do a clean install.. Thats a problem. Now my laptops dvd reader is also damaged so is there any way i can create a windows install on a usb? By the way also thanks for the advice on recvering data.