Evening all,
I'm running a HP ProBook 640 with a 128GB Lite-On SSD and recently bought a Kingston A400 480GB SSD as I was running out of space.
Having put the new drive in the laptop, I booted up the Windows 7 DVD (same one used for original install) and everything seemed to install ok up to the completing installation section. At which point the laptop went for an auto reboot, then went to a black screen with the "BootMGR is corrupt, unable to boot" error. I've tried the install several times with no luck. Using Windows install repair does nothing and I've even tried to repair the bootloader/MBR from Kubuntu utilities and also install the Grub loader, but nothing I've done has worked.
I've connected the drive via USB adapter and checked the drive (brand new, from a reputable retailer) with the Kingston SSD manager software and the firmware is up to date and showing no errors. All the windows install folders are there and populated.
I have noticed that "Notebook harddrive" doesn't always show up in the BIOS. I've checked that SATA port is set to AHCI (also tried it with IDE) and is in legacy mode.
Could it be the BIOS? It's running HP L77 Version 01.39 from 26/9/2016. There are a couple of updates on HPs site including one from Nov 2018, but the version history doesn't mention my issue. (There was a version older than the one that's installed, 1.05, that did mention support for SSDs intermittently not working)
I can normally work around most computer problems, but this is not giving in.
Any help or suggestions gratefully received.
Kind regards,
M
I'm running a HP ProBook 640 with a 128GB Lite-On SSD and recently bought a Kingston A400 480GB SSD as I was running out of space.
Having put the new drive in the laptop, I booted up the Windows 7 DVD (same one used for original install) and everything seemed to install ok up to the completing installation section. At which point the laptop went for an auto reboot, then went to a black screen with the "BootMGR is corrupt, unable to boot" error. I've tried the install several times with no luck. Using Windows install repair does nothing and I've even tried to repair the bootloader/MBR from Kubuntu utilities and also install the Grub loader, but nothing I've done has worked.
I've connected the drive via USB adapter and checked the drive (brand new, from a reputable retailer) with the Kingston SSD manager software and the firmware is up to date and showing no errors. All the windows install folders are there and populated.
I have noticed that "Notebook harddrive" doesn't always show up in the BIOS. I've checked that SATA port is set to AHCI (also tried it with IDE) and is in legacy mode.
Could it be the BIOS? It's running HP L77 Version 01.39 from 26/9/2016. There are a couple of updates on HPs site including one from Nov 2018, but the version history doesn't mention my issue. (There was a version older than the one that's installed, 1.05, that did mention support for SSDs intermittently not working)
I can normally work around most computer problems, but this is not giving in.
Any help or suggestions gratefully received.
Kind regards,
M
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