- Oct 18, 2020
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Hello! I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remedy my problem. I'll go as far into detail as I can.
To start: Desktop-PC; I cannot boot into Windows 10 on my (sata) hard drive. I used to before until I started playing around with the partitions.
I originally used Windows 7 about 3-6 years until I heard about the free Windows 10 upgrade; so I made a copy of my Windows 7 OS on a separate partition. I also made another system restore partition just in case. The idea was to try out Windows 10 and if I didn't like it, I could go back to 7. I ended up liking 10!
I decided to move to an SSD (500gb), but it was much smaller than my HHD(1tb) because of the second partition. I did my best, but couldn't delete the Windows 7 partition. I could not format the win7 partition, I could only delete the files visible (and hidden), but the copying software still recognized an OS to also clone; and I only wanted to clone the 10os partition. I did try to make the win10 OS my primary OS to boot and m primary partition, but I must've failed somewhere. The Win10 partition does have a boot folder in the windows folder. I can still access the windows 10 partition and all my files (I installed a fresh OS on another HDD to try and fix my issue).
What I've tried: There isn't much I could do, so I'll keep it short as a list.
Things to note:
Appreciate the help
Hello! I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remedy my problem. I'll go as far into detail as I can.
To start: Desktop-PC; I cannot boot into Windows 10 on my (sata) hard drive. I used to before until I started playing around with the partitions.
I originally used Windows 7 about 3-6 years until I heard about the free Windows 10 upgrade; so I made a copy of my Windows 7 OS on a separate partition. I also made another system restore partition just in case. The idea was to try out Windows 10 and if I didn't like it, I could go back to 7. I ended up liking 10!
I decided to move to an SSD (500gb), but it was much smaller than my HHD(1tb) because of the second partition. I did my best, but couldn't delete the Windows 7 partition. I could not format the win7 partition, I could only delete the files visible (and hidden), but the copying software still recognized an OS to also clone; and I only wanted to clone the 10os partition. I did try to make the win10 OS my primary OS to boot and m primary partition, but I must've failed somewhere. The Win10 partition does have a boot folder in the windows folder. I can still access the windows 10 partition and all my files (I installed a fresh OS on another HDD to try and fix my issue).
What I've tried: There isn't much I could do, so I'll keep it short as a list.
- I've tried using a Windows 10 Pro iso (not sure what edition my win10 OS is using; I believe I upgraded from Ultimate?) I downloaded from the Microsoft website to boot into recovery mode. None of the recovery options could do anything to help other than running CMD. So from there...
- I've tried many bootrec options: fixmbr, fixboot, scanos, buildbcd; and in the end I get "system device cannot be found" or "no access" or "The boot configuration data store cannot be opened. The requested system device cannot be found."
- I formatted the Win 7 partition using the Win10 installer
- I've used software booting from a USB to fix the mbr to no avail.
Things to note:
- My OS hard drive was set to MBR (only 90% sure).
- I don't believe I booted with UEFI- not sure.
- While I plan on using my SSD as the main hard drive, I am open to re-installing Win10 if I can copy the programs and settings saved if possible (and although I don't think it'd be entirely possible, being able to restore my sata HDD would mean I can remember the options and everything I had set to).
- I was given a free upgrade to Win 10, so I do not have a serial AFAIK when re-installing WIn10. (And on that note, I don't like connecting a live-account to my OS)
Appreciate the help
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