Question Rebuilt PC, now no drives will boot.

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P3rfect_1

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I recently got annoyed how 14 year old me cabled managed my PC and decided to take everything out and re-do everything.

I have a mid to low-end desktop and have slowly been upgrading things but i bet the majority of people would consider it an outdated PC.
Intel(R) Core™ i5-4590 3.30 GHz 6MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150
64GB ADATA SP900 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s - 550 MB/s Read & 505 MB/s Write [This is a cache drive.]
16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/1866MHz Dual Channel Memory
ASRock Z97 Pro4 ATX w/ Intel GbLAN
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB GDDR5

Now theres a few things for context, The HDD I bought I have used since I built the rig. I put a 60gb passthrough to help with game loading times etc,
I recently formatted and put in another 1tb laptop hard-drive because my original HDD was full.

After rebuilding my PC, I plugged in the original HDD with a power cable and a SATA III connector like normal, and then connected my passthrough. Tried booting my PC and it went straight into the BIOS. I then tried including the laptop HDD because, reasons, and I now get an automatic repair prompt, but if I try to reinstall windows it just says "there was a problem resetting your pc"
After doing some digging i realize that the laptop HDD is actually in an SMART event.

I cant tell if its trying to boot off of the laptop HDD because I only get to Automatic Repair when its plugged in, (I formatted the laptop hdd so there shouldnt be any copy of windows on there)
but if I use the original drive it will prompt me to plug in a bootable drive.
After doing some digging i realize that the laptop HDD is actually in an SMART event. which may be while windows is trying to fix it and its not working. except no windows copy should be on that hdd.

I do not have a bootable USB drive nor a windows CD. I bought my license for windows 8 and upgraded free to windows 10 when it was released and i cannot find my original win8 license.

I yoinked a working hdd out of my laptop and plugged it into my desktop as the only drive and it recognized it but wouldn't boot off of it. It will sit there and spin those little dots,, flash the ( 🙁 your pc ran into a problem screen ) three times (as the BIOS is set to do) then will "diagnose" the drive and will sit there and spin again.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: When plugging in the original HDD by itself the BIOS (UEFI) registers the drive as an AHCI P4, and does not give me an option to choose windows boot manager.
 
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Obakasama said:
Have you tried removing all extra drives and leaving only the boot drive?
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So I have tried the original HDD by itself which promts a "Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key."

the 1tb laptop HDD (which goes into Automatic Repair and then doesnt do anything) [because its probably broken and I wiped the original windows off of it]

and the working HDD i pulled out of my laptop about an hour ago. (which did nothing)

I have not tried plugging the passthrough in by itself but I guess I could try that.
 
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P3rfect_1 said:
So I have tried the original HDD by itself which promts a "Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key."

the 1tb laptop HDD (which goes into Automatic Repair and then doesnt do anything) [because its probably broken and I wiped the original windows off of it]

and the working HDD i pulled out of my laptop about an hour ago. (which did nothing)

I have not tried plugging the passthrough in by itself but I guess I could try that.
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Your boot partition was moved to the 6 4gb that's why it's telling you your os drive has nothing on it, when you made it the passthrough you made it the a primary somehow, you a need to use windows repair with Your os and passthrough drive plugged in and hopefully it will reconnect the two or be if it wont repair, boot to the windows install screen select custom install and format starting with the passthrough drive them deleting the partition to the os drive doing the same and reinstall from there
 
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white.a.drew said:
Your boot partition was moved to the 6 4gb that's why it's telling you your os drive has nothing on it, when you made it the passthrough you made it the a primary somehow, you a need to use windows repair with Your os and passthrough drive plugged in and hopefully it will reconnect the two or be if it wont repair, boot to the windows install screen select custom install and format starting with the passthrough drive them deleting the partition to the os drive doing the same and reinstall from there
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I think i was able to determine what you were saying.

I plugged both the original HDD and the 64gig passthrough in by themselves and the only thing I get is the "Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device" problem and after moving around the boot order, regardless of my choice, the error continues.
 
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P3rfect_1 said:
I think i was able to determine what you were saying.

I plugged both the original HDD and the 64gig passthrough in by themselves and the only thing I get is the "Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device" problem and after moving around the boot order, regardless of my choice, the error continues.
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You need to boot into windows installer and hit repair not install when you unpligged them they disconnected from each other and no longer realize one is reading of the other you need to re-pair them kinda like a bluetooth speaker and your phone

No that is not the exact meaning of repair windows. I know it rewrites important files... Like if 12yr old you deletes all the temporary files



"Sorry for all typo's my phone has auto correct from he double hockey stick. It's annoying I try to catch it but fail to remeber I need to reread what I write before i post every time"
 
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white.a.drew said:
You need to boot into windows installer and hit repair not install when you unpligged them they disconnected from each other and no longer realize one is reading of the other you need to re-pair them kinda like a bluetooth speaker and your phone

No that is not the exact meaning of repair windows. I know it rewrites important files... Like if 12yr old you deletes all the temporary files



"Sorry for all typo's my phone has auto correct from he double hockey stick. It's annoying I try to catch it but fail to remeber I need to reread what I write before i post every time"
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Okay so I need to get a USB with a copy of windows on it correct? or whatever that Microsoft Creation thingy is?
Than I need to boot into that and then what?
 
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P3rfect_1 said:
Okay so I need to get a USB with a copy of windows on it correct? or whatever that Microsoft Creation thingy is?
Than I need to boot into that and then what?
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Instead of clickimg install click repair in the lower left corner if this doesnt work boot from your usb again and click custom install and format each partition by itself and then delete it one by one then reinstall on the drive you wish to install on again
 
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