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    New HDD, broken MBR (no bootable device found)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by krneki, Oct 16, 2014.

  1. krneki

    krneki Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've recently replaced my secondary HDD in HP Pavillion dv7 (primary is [email protected]) and as soon as I booted up computer, I got error "no bootable devices found". The first thing that I tried out was bootable USB with Windows 8.1 whereas I ran "automatic repair" several times, without any luck.

    Then I opened up command prompt under advanced menu and ran:
    bootrec /fixmbr
    bootrec /fixboot
    bootrec /scanos
    bootrec /rebuildbcd

    None helped, probably because of "element not found" error. I also tried with diskpart where I manually selected (see screenshot) SSD system partition for active one, but still without any luck.

    I'm really out of ideas, nothing seem to work. I also created bootable Minitool Parition Magic USB and ran Rebuild BCD from there and it still didn't help.

    What else could I do, this is really frustrating?

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    krneki, Oct 16, 2014
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Maybe try swap your HDD and SSD around? Seems the HDD is listed as disk 0 so the computer is trying to boot from it? You might also be able to specifically disable the computer attempting to boot from that 1TB drive in the BIOS. The drive that you removed might also have some boot information on it.
     
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  3. Pirx

    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    What you should have done first is go into the BIOS and make sure your original drive (the one that contains the OS) is in fact listed in the boot sequence. With the fiddling around you have done in the meantime, however, who knows; you might have destroyed your bootable drive (the SSD) by now, which means you're lost up the creek.
     
    Pirx, Oct 16, 2014
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