Question Ssd is recognized on one HP but not the other.

[Skiddilydee]

My husband just purchased an HP SSD for his computer because his hard drive crashed. Error message says: "start pxe over ipv4." We gathered that the HDD failed because we tried plugging it into my computer and it did the same thing.

So I plugged the new ssd into my hp and installed Windows 8.1. Everything booted up fine and worked on my computer. I took it out and plugged it into my husband's and it read the same error message. The device configuration in BIOS recognizes the hard drive but the boot menu does not. I'm so sick of bashing my head on this thing can someone help? I was hoping to have it done before he gets home from work tonight.

 

[jimmysmitty]

You are trying to install Windows on a SSD on one system then put it in another? Are they the exaqct same model? If not that wont work.

That said you might also want to check the BIOS boot options. If it is trying to boot over the network to a PXE boot it would give that error.

Thinking about it though, since you ran the installer on a different PC, did you disconnect the other drive in that PC or install with the other drive plugged in? If you did it with another drive plugged in Windows will see the other drives boot file and use it instead of creating a new one on the new SSD.

 

[Skiddilydee]

I installed it on my computer

You are trying to install Windows on a SSD on one system then put it in another? Are they the exaqct same model? If not that wont work.

That said you might also want to check the BIOS boot options. If it is trying to boot over the network to a PXE boot it would give that error.

Thinking about it though, since you ran the installer on a different PC, did you disconnect the other drive in that PC or install with the other drive plugged in? If you did it with another drive plugged in Windows will see the other drives boot file and use it instead of creating a new one on the new SSD.

I plugged it into my computer after unplugging my hard drive and installed Windows through installation disc because my husband's disk drive won't read the installation disc even after I go into BIOS and hit boot from CD drive it won't read it so I just did it on my computer. So are you saying because I loaded it up on my system his won't read it now because our bios are different? Should I put it back into my computer and go into Disk Management and format it? Did I screw it all up and have to start over? The whole problem is that I can't get his computer to boot the installation disk and format it on his system. So I tried going the route of using my system. Is that why his computer won't recognize it now? We're thinking there's something wrong with his bios because it won't recognize hard drives and I tried messing with the whole boot system pxe tutorials I found online and it didn't change anything.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Why don't you try making a Windows 8.1 USB bootable instead?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-10-create-installation-media

Download the proper one and have a USB available thats at least 4GB in size. Will not only work better it will install faster too.

 

[Skiddilydee]

Why don't you try making a Windows 8.1 USB bootable instead?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-10-create-installation-media

Download the proper one and have a USB available thats at least 4GB in size. Will not only work better it will install faster too.

I don't have one. ... I know, I know, I know. I can't believe I'm saying that but truly, I don't. Can I Frankenstein my disk drive into his computer?!

 

[jimmysmitty]

You could try removing yours and putting it into his yes. But it all depends on what each system is.

 

[Skiddilydee]

Oh sweet baby kitties.... I fixed it. Thank you so much for caring enough to reply to my desperate, naive thread. I am now the computer Jedi Master. I retrieved the windows key from bios and finally got the computer to recognize the hard drive. Screw you geek squad! Hehe just kidding

Now...How do I transfer the data from the crashed hard drive?

Seriously though..Thank you for suggesting your helpful comments they made me rethink the way I was doing things. I will forever recommend this forum.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Data transfer is going to depend on how bad it is. You can buy a dock and connect it externally and try to connect it to the system and see if you can access it. If it doesn't work you might have to send it to a professional.

 

[Skiddilydee]

Data transfer is going to depend on how bad it is. You can buy a dock and connect it externally and try to connect it to the system and see if you can access it. If it doesn't work you might have to send it to a professional.

Alright, thanks!