- Nov 16, 2015
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Hello,
This problem all began a few days ago. I turned on my PC and it showed up with the message: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key." I could not find my HDD in the boot priorities in my Gigabyte BIOS UEFI. I tested my SATA cables with a brand new HDD and my PC could not identify it either. I used a new SATA cable as well, to no avail. I realized that I needed to create a Windows 10 bootable USB (using rufus) to somehow repair my HDD. After resetting the priorities in BIOS to USB, and plugging in the ISO formatted USB, the Windows 10 installation was able to appear (yay). I clicked repair, then refresh, then keep all files, but it said: "The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again." I attempted to use command prompt given by the installation media, and to use diskpart (from forums and stuff). After selecting/listing Disk 0, I tried listing the partitions. On all the users with this problem that I found online, everyone had Partitions 1,2,3,4. I only had Partition 1 with Primary labeled and 16GB, the storage size of my USB. This was the same for Disk 0.
I am very much tired of having to dig so deep just to fix such a simple problem.
Please and thank you,
R1C3B0WL
This problem all began a few days ago. I turned on my PC and it showed up with the message: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key." I could not find my HDD in the boot priorities in my Gigabyte BIOS UEFI. I tested my SATA cables with a brand new HDD and my PC could not identify it either. I used a new SATA cable as well, to no avail. I realized that I needed to create a Windows 10 bootable USB (using rufus) to somehow repair my HDD. After resetting the priorities in BIOS to USB, and plugging in the ISO formatted USB, the Windows 10 installation was able to appear (yay). I clicked repair, then refresh, then keep all files, but it said: "The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again." I attempted to use command prompt given by the installation media, and to use diskpart (from forums and stuff). After selecting/listing Disk 0, I tried listing the partitions. On all the users with this problem that I found online, everyone had Partitions 1,2,3,4. I only had Partition 1 with Primary labeled and 16GB, the storage size of my USB. This was the same for Disk 0.
I am very much tired of having to dig so deep just to fix such a simple problem.
Please and thank you,
R1C3B0WL
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