Installed a hard drive from laptop screwed up my desktop pc

[TrooperGuy2110]

I upgraded my laptop to a ssd it had 1tb harddrive and I was like why let that storage go to waste. I put it in my desktop. It completely screwed up my pc my plan was just to boot off the hard drive o normally do and format the new one. But it's forcing me to boot off the new one Every time even after I formatted it i think it has something to do with the disk system partion then I was like ok I'll just unplug it and put it somewhere but when I did that it said windows needed to be repaired blue screen. I've check bio numerous times right now I'm reseting and am going to try boot off usb. Pls help

 

[R_1]

will the system boot if you remove the new 1tb?
you may need to go into the BIOS and change the boot order. sounds like the new drive is taking over as the main boot device. check this and see if that is the issue

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

will the system boot if you remove the new 1tb?
you may need to go into the BIOS and change the boot order. sounds like the new drive is taking over as the main boot device. check this and see if that is the issue

Been there done that

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

In fact when I removed the drive it just kept giving me a windows repair error

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

Pc is not letting me reset error trying to reset. Going to try loading the sun within the laptop hard drive

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

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Ok this messed up my pc bad. It continues to boot from laptop hard drive if I remove the laptop hard drive gives me a error when booting. Tryed resseting error
I don't know what to do

 

[Karadjgne]

Shut down pc, unplug from the wall, hold power button for 10+ seconds. Open up the case, pull the data cable from the laptop hdd, leave power connected. pull out the bios battery, count to 15, reinstall, don't close up just plug pc in, start. That'll clear the cmos memory and force the bios to reinitiate according to what hardware is installed. Once windows is back up and running, then plug the data back into the laptop hdd. This'll bypass the laptop being seen as C: drive which has a boot sector and OS installed. Now you'll need to repartition that hdd, a simple format won't work as the drive is set as bootable, you'll need to remove that setting or it'll continue to try and boot. This gets done when you partition the hdd as storage only. Non-bootable.

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

Shut down pc, unplug from the wall, hold power button for 10+ seconds. Open up the case, pull the data cable from the laptop hdd, leave power connected. pull out the bios battery, count to 15, reinstall, don't close up just plug pc in, start. That'll clear the cmos memory and force the bios to reinitiate according to what hardware is installed. Once windows is back up and running, then plug the data back into the laptop hdd. This'll bypass the laptop being seen as C: drive which has a boot sector and OS installed. Now you'll need to repartition that hdd, a simple format won't work as the drive is set as bootable, you'll need to remove that setting or it'll continue to try and boot. This gets done when you partition the hdd as storage only. Non-bootable.

Is the bios battery the circular battery in the middle of the mother board if so how do I remove it

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

Nevermind I got the bios to reset unfortunately it's not letting me boot from the ssd going to try the usb

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

Shut down pc, unplug from the wall, hold power button for 10+ seconds. Open up the case, pull the data cable from the laptop hdd, leave power connected. pull out the bios battery, count to 15, reinstall, don't close up just plug pc in, start. That'll clear the cmos memory and force the bios to reinitiate according to what hardware is installed. Once windows is back up and running, then plug the data back into the laptop hdd. This'll bypass the laptop being seen as C: drive which has a boot sector and OS installed. Now you'll need to repartition that hdd, a simple format won't work as the drive is set as bootable, you'll need to remove that setting or it'll continue to try and boot. This gets done when you partition the hdd as storage only. Non-bootable.

That didn't work it seems the laptop hard drive installed something into all my other drives make them to were they can't install windows.

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

I'm going to boot off the laptop hard drive then go into disk management and try to change the setting of the other drives wish me luck

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

Shut down pc, unplug from the wall, hold power button for 10+ seconds. Open up the case, pull the data cable from the laptop hdd, leave power connected. pull out the bios battery, count to 15, reinstall, don't close up just plug pc in, start. That'll clear the cmos memory and force the bios to reinitiate according to what hardware is installed. Once windows is back up and running, then plug the data back into the laptop hdd. This'll bypass the laptop being seen as C: drive which has a boot sector and OS installed. Now you'll need to repartition that hdd, a simple format won't work as the drive is set as bootable, you'll need to remove that setting or it'll continue to try and boot. This gets done when you partition the hdd as storage only. Non-bootable.

How can I delete the partion that my OS IS installed on

 

[TrooperGuy2110]

Hi everyone, I did it. this was the hardest thing ive done with costume pc maintence in a long time. so first I'm going to explain what I believe happened and how I fixed it

What Happened?
I cloned and upgraded my laptop to a SSD ok

I put the old tb hard drive in my desktop gaming pc
this made that Hard drive the boot and system Hard drive automatically
(this hard drive came from a touch device which caused it to act wonky in my desktop)
this made my pc extremely slow

I formatted the drive thinking it would fix it. it didn't

so I went to the bios and forced it to boot from the SSD it would but it would boot the system partion on the Hard Drive
did not work

this made it to were I could not reset the pc and I could not access certain permissions it gave me a unfixble error code that could only be fixed if I payed Microsoft $99

unplugging the laptop hard drive just resulted in a boot error
so I was feeling pretty helpless

then I removed the bio battery as mentioned above
at boot it just gave me a error
or when I booted off a fresh copy of windows it wouldn't let me install unless it was the laptop hard drive
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh

The Fix
How I finaly fixed it
was I booted from the laptop hard drive used keyboard commands to navigate to Disk managent deleted all the partition I could completely deleted them. (not format)
shut off pc
removed bios battery
this aloud me to install windows on original boot drive( note it will not ask to create extra partitions this is important)
once windows was installed
went and deleted partitions again
Go to DiscPart delete partition you can there tones of tutorials online its pretty easy
then downloaded a disc partition manger
use this to wipe the laptop hard drive and all partitions
restart pc it wont let you boot from your original SSD
you have to reinstall windows one last time this time it should ask you to create extra partitions like system and recovery
DONE!

I'm the trooperguy and this is my story.

if someone could copy this so I can pick it as the solution that be great

 

[Karadjgne]

You just did what I told you to do.. Just added a few steps lol.