Question New pc using old hard drives

[twinkie_mayne]

Just finished a new build. Went to boot up and in bios no drives were detected. Started in safe mode and the drives show up then.

Going from intel to amd. Is that what is causing my problem? will i need to reformat or windows repair my boot os? I have 2 other drives aside from my boot os. Do i need to reformat those as well and will i lose all my data?

please help. Been stuck like this for a couple hours now...

thanks a million in advance

 

[Bobbrugge]

I would expect that is exactly your problem. As far as I know the two are different enough that most of the programming won't cross. I am sure someone else will chime in, probably soon.

 

[USAFRet]

You're trying to use the drive+OS from an old Intel in a new AMD?
Clean install is needed.

And do this with ONLY the one drive connected.

Clean install of the OS also means all the drivers and applications.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

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[twinkie_mayne]

You're trying to use the drive+OS from an old Intel in a new AMD?
Clean install is needed.

And do this with ONLY the one drive connected.

Clean install of the OS also means all the drivers and applications.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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Im still in safe mode and moved all the files i wanted to keep on to a usb drive. I feel im just going to wipe everything clean and do a new install completely.

 

[USAFRet]

Im still in safe mode and moved all the files i wanted to keep on to a usb drive. I feel im just going to wipe everything clean and do a new install completely.

And still, do the actual install with only ONE drive connected.
Reconnect the others after.

 

[twinkie_mayne]

And still, do the actual install with only ONE drive connected.
Reconnect the others after.

Just tried to do that. After “recovering” the computer restarted and again, now hard drives still dont show up in bios. Only when i force shut down and the pc starts in safe mode will i see drivers.

 

[USAFRet]

Just tried to do that. After “recovering” the computer restarted and again, now hard drives still dont show up in bios. Only when i force shut down and the pc starts in safe mode will i see drivers.

safe mode?
You're booting up from a known good Win 10 DVD or USB to install with?

 

[twinkie_mayne]

safe mode?
You're booting up from a known good Win 10 DVD or USB to install with?

Sorry it says my system is POSTed in safe mode. Then it shows my drivers. That only happens when i force shut down by holding the power button. The computer starts to booth and has me push f1 to continue then brings me to bios where i can select a drive? But if i shut down and start normally no drives show up. Im sorry if this makes no sense.....

 

[twinkie_mayne]

safe mode?
You're booting up from a known good Win 10 DVD or USB to install with?

And sorry, yes, i do have a windows dvd.

 

[twinkie_mayne]

its to the point now where i cant enter bios manually and have to wait for it to attempt to boot for 1min before it automatically takes me to bios