Question Issue when booting from HDD

[therealzhero]

I recently bought a new computer, I put the hdd of my old pc into my new one, and the first time I turned it on it booted from the old one. I don’t know if that step was a mistake, but I don’t think it was normal how the motherboard booted into windows without going to bios or whatever it does the first time you turn it on. So I restarted my computer and installed windows, I wanted to get rid of my old hard drive but when l took it out and booted to my new hdd with windows installed, the computer does not boot to windows but instead brings me to a screen that says restart and select proper boot device. I’m on a Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3 motherboard, and when I go to bios there is no option for windows boot manager like there was when my old hard drive was plugged in.Instead you only option was to boot to my new hdd which gives me the screen to restart and select proper boot device.

Is there any way I can boot from windows on my new hdd without my old one.

 

[BoyDrewWonder]

I have this issue almost every time I change where my OS sits. The easiest way to fix it is to get a windows USB key and reinstall windows on the new drive. You can get the turn any 8GB usb into a key with the software here if you don't already have one. Then just make sure your BIOS is set to boot to the new HDD.

 

[therealzhero]

I have this issue almost every time I change where my OS sits. The easiest way to fix it is to get a windows USB key and reinstall windows on the new drive. You can get the turn any 8GB usb into a key with the software here if you don't already have one. Then just make sure your BIOS is set to boot to the new HDD.

Is it possible to keep all of my data on my new drive while installing windows again, if not I have 2TB external SSD I could use but it would be a pain to install everything again