[SOLVED] PC will only boot to BIOS ?

[TheKittenSlay3r]

I'm not sure if it was a recent windows 10 update that has done this but 3 times in the last week two computers have had the issue of a black load screen with cursor and load symbol blinking but the only way to fix was to reinstall windows on both (one it happened to twice now in the two week span another just happened two days ago)

Fast forward to today I have this 500gb ssd that was the primary boot drive for this pc and it ran into the issue above. I freshly installed windows on the drive and then loaded the ssd back up on the computer. (I had taken the drive out of this computer and then used my main rig to load windows and test it before trying it on the other system. Windows was fully operational and I even set up the user and got it to boot to the desktop no issue so I put the drive into the other pc and now it refuses to load into windows only into the bios. I use a thumb drive to load windows and now when trying to get into safe mode either the power button method or holding shift f8 safe mode will just freeze on the blue windows logo screen and nothing else will happen, I'm not even able to get it to a place where I can reformat the drive using the CMD prompt so I can do another fresh install of windows.

Things I've tried so far

1. Resetting the CMOS battery physically
2. Checking all hard wire connections SATA cables ect.
3. Attempting to load with one drive or load with no drives and then putting the SSD back in to trick the computer to registering the drive as the bookable.
4. Using the drive in another computer as the boot drive (stated above does in fact work)
5. Troubleshooter to repair (when it let me get to that stage earlier)
6. Unplugging any unessasary hardware mouses keyboard peripherals ect.

I'm about out of ideas here on how else I can fix it, I can't tell where this issue could be stemming from for everything hardware wise is functioning such as booting to bios, drives working ect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Dink44]

I'm not sure if it was a recent windows 10 update that has done this but 3 times in the last week two computers have had the issue of a black load screen with cursor and load symbol blinking but the only way to fix was to reinstall windows on both (one it happened to twice now in the two week span another just happened two days ago)

Fast forward to today I have this 500gb ssd that was the primary boot drive for this pc and it ran into the issue above. I freshly installed windows on the drive and then loaded the ssd back up on the computer. (I had taken the drive out of this computer and then used my main rig to load windows and test it before trying it on the other system. Windows was fully operational and I even set up the user and got it to boot to the desktop no issue so I put the drive into the other pc and now it refuses to load into windows only into the bios. I use a thumb drive to load windows and now when trying to get into safe mode either the power button method or holding shift f8 safe mode will just freeze on the blue windows logo screen and nothing else will happen, I'm not even able to get it to a place where I can reformat the drive using the CMD prompt so I can do another fresh install of windows.

Things I've tried so far

1. Resetting the CMOS battery physically
2. Checking all hard wire connections SATA cables ect.
3. Attempting to load with one drive or load with no drives and then putting the SSD back in to trick the computer to registering the drive as the bookable.
4. Using the drive in another computer as the boot drive (stated above does in fact work)
5. Troubleshooter to repair (when it let me get to that stage earlier)
6. Unplugging any unessasary hardware mouses keyboard peripherals ect.

I'm about out of ideas here on how else I can fix it, I can't tell where this issue could be stemming from for everything hardware wise is functioning such as booting to bios, drives working ect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Have you tried booting from a Linux live CD like Ubuntu , it will not load anything to the drive and runs fully from CD and RAM BUT will allow you to see and modify anything on the hard drive , also it will allow formatting etc , it could be the drive needs to be flagged as ACTIVE ( you had it in another PC and THAT had the ACTIVE flag on its drive ) all this can be done on Ubuntu via its disk manager.

I would suggest unplugging ALL other drives and just have SSD in if you decide to go the Live CD way , to make it easier in disk management on Ubuntu if you are new to Linux flavours.

Just download the latest version of Ubuntu ISO and make a CD/DVD , boot PC from it , probably F12 option and choose to " TRY IT " when the boot screen appears and NOT load Ubuntu.

 

[Bob.B]

I'm not sure if it was a recent windows 10 update that has done this but 3 times in the last week two computers have had the issue of a black load screen with cursor and load symbol blinking but the only way to fix was to reinstall windows on both (one it happened to twice now in the two week span another just happened two days ago)

Fast forward to today I have this 500gb ssd that was the primary boot drive for this pc and it ran into the issue above. I freshly installed windows on the drive and then loaded the ssd back up on the computer. (I had taken the drive out of this computer and then used my main rig to load windows and test it before trying it on the other system. Windows was fully operational and I even set up the user and got it to boot to the desktop no issue so I put the drive into the other pc and now it refuses to load into windows only into the bios. I use a thumb drive to load windows and now when trying to get into safe mode either the power button method or holding shift f8 safe mode will just freeze on the blue windows logo screen and nothing else will happen, I'm not even able to get it to a place where I can reformat the drive using the CMD prompt so I can do another fresh install of windows.

Things I've tried so far

1. Resetting the CMOS battery physically
2. Checking all hard wire connections SATA cables ect.
3. Attempting to load with one drive or load with no drives and then putting the SSD back in to trick the computer to registering the drive as the bookable.
4. Using the drive in another computer as the boot drive (stated above does in fact work)
5. Troubleshooter to repair (when it let me get to that stage earlier)
6. Unplugging any unessasary hardware mouses keyboard peripherals ect.

I'm about out of ideas here on how else I can fix it, I can't tell where this issue could be stemming from for everything hardware wise is functioning such as booting to bios, drives working ect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

When you installed windows on this ssd using your main rig did you have any other disk connected?

 

[TheKittenSlay3r]

When you installed windows on this ssd using your main rig did you have any other disk connected?

I disabled all other drives

 

[TheKittenSlay3r]

Have you tried booting from a Linux live CD like Ubuntu , it will not load anything to the drive and runs fully from CD and RAM BUT will allow you to see and modify anything on the hard drive , also it will allow formatting etc , it could be the drive needs to be flagged as ACTIVE ( you had it in another PC and THAT had the ACTIVE flag on its drive ) all this can be done on Ubuntu via its disk manager.

I would suggest unplugging ALL other drives and just have SSD in if you decide to go the Live CD way , to make it easier in disk management on Ubuntu if you are new to Linux flavours.

Just download the latest version of Ubuntu ISO and make a CD/DVD , boot PC from it , probably F12 option and choose to " TRY IT " when the boot screen appears and NOT load Ubuntu.

I'll give this one a shot!

 

[Jacob 51]

I'm not sure if it was a recent windows 10 update that has done this but 3 times in the last week two computers have had the issue of a black load screen with cursor and load symbol blinking but the only way to fix was to reinstall windows on both (one it happened to twice now in the two week span another just happened two days ago)

Fast forward to today I have this 500gb ssd that was the primary boot drive for this pc and it ran into the issue above. I freshly installed windows on the drive and then loaded the ssd back up on the computer. (I had taken the drive out of this computer and then used my main rig to load windows and test it before trying it on the other system. Windows was fully operational and I even set up the user and got it to boot to the desktop no issue so I put the drive into the other pc and now it refuses to load into windows only into the bios. I use a thumb drive to load windows and now when trying to get into safe mode either the power button method or holding shift f8 safe mode will just freeze on the blue windows logo screen and nothing else will happen, I'm not even able to get it to a place where I can reformat the drive using the CMD prompt so I can do another fresh install of windows.

Things I've tried so far

1. Resetting the CMOS battery physically
2. Checking all hard wire connections SATA cables ect.
3. Attempting to load with one drive or load with no drives and then putting the SSD back in to trick the computer to registering the drive as the bookable.
4. Using the drive in another computer as the boot drive (stated above does in fact work)
5. Troubleshooter to repair (when it let me get to that stage earlier)
6. Unplugging any unessasary hardware mouses keyboard peripherals ect.

I'm about out of ideas here on how else I can fix it, I can't tell where this issue could be stemming from for everything hardware wise is functioning such as booting to bios, drives working ect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In the BIOS, set the boot to Legacy or if it still doesn't work, change it to UEFI. Change ALL the settings below it accordingly, like video Oprom and all. All should be at the same option: Legacy or UEFi.

Btw, did you try using the boot key to do it?
Did you use a bootable USB drive?

 

[Bob.B]

I disabled all other drives

I don't know what disabled means.
If the windows flash stick boots on the problem machine try to install windows to the ssd.....no other disk connected.

 

[TheKittenSlay3r]

An update to the situation, I believe now the SSD in question has gone up, from what I can tell is 95% of the time it only wants to read and not write which I suppose could explain why I could only boot to the troubleshoot screen once or twice now, I plugged up solely just a HDD and it went right to the windows logo. Going to order a new drive here soon and hopefully solve this issue entirely. The original drive is about 6 or 7 years old now and was my first original drive recently in the pc it was apart of it was left on almost 24/7 which may have fast forwarded its use.

 

[TheKittenSlay3r]

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An update to the situation, I believe now the SSD in question has gone up, from what I can tell is 95% of the time it only wants to read and not write which I suppose could explain why I could only boot to the troubleshoot screen once or twice now, I plugged up solely just a HDD and it went right to the windows logo. Going to order a new drive here soon and hopefully solve this issue entirely. The original drive is about 6 or 7 years old now and was my first original drive recently in the pc it was apart of it was left on almost 24/7 which may have fast forwarded its use.

In the end I bought a new replacement drive and it worked perfectly, still strange how it ended up wiping my windows boot disk twice but regardless the issue has been resolved, thanks everyone for your replies!