[SOLVED] Windows 10 Bricked After Installing New HDD

[General_Cool]

Today I decided to install a new HDD in my PC. Everything went fine in the install until I plugged everything back in. Windows 10 now refuses to boot. I’m stuck on the ASUS loading sceen in an infinite loop where the dots will go on forever. I checked the UEFI and everything is fine in there, Windows Boot Manager is at the top of the list. I attempted to put my SSD at the top of the list but all that does is make the computer boot straight to the BIOS. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[clutchc]

I take it that the HDD was just a storage drive, yes? Not a drive with the OS on it.
Did you have the SSD as the first boot device initially?
Make any other changes besides simply swapping one HDD for another?
Did you install Win on the SSD while you had the HDD still plugged in? (SATA cable).

 

[General_Cool]

I take it that the HDD was just a storage drive, yes? Not a drive with the OS on it.
Did you have the SSD as the first boot device initially?
Make any other changes besides simply swapping one HDD for another?
Did you install Win on the SSD while you had the HDD still plugged in? (SATA cable).

I have one SSD as a boot drive, a second SSD as storage, and a third HDD for storage. This HDD I installed is a Seagate 3TB 7200RPM drive and it was meant to be a fourth drive for storage. Its also brand new.

 

[clutchc]

Try unplugging every drive except for the SSD that is the boot drive. See if it boots normally that way...

 

[General_Cool]

Try unplugging every drive except for the SSD that is the boot drive. See if it boots normally that way...

Already tried this yesterday and it did nothing.

 

[clutchc]

When you initially installed W10 on the SSD, what other drive(s) did you have plugged in at the time?

 

[General_Cool]

When you initially installed W10 on the SSD, what other drive(s) did you have plugged in at the time?

I originally built the PC a few years ago with a 500GB Intel SSD. A few months later I added a Crucial 500GB SSD and then a few months after that I added a WD Blue 1TB HDD. I had this setup for about two years until a few days ago when I attempted to add the Seagate.

 

[clutchc]

Well... there goes my theory then. I thought maybe you had another drive plugged in when you installed Win to the first SSD. Under some conditions, Win may write the boot sector to the wrong drive even tho it istalls the OS to the correct drive. I thought possibly you changed SATA ports and now it can't find the boot sector. But I guess not.