Installed SSD now have problems.


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So I have an HP ENVY 700-010xt.

I installed an SDD installed windows on it.

Everything was fine. I formatted the old HDD that had the old windows install on it.

I restarted the PC and now it's stuck at the black and blue HP logo.

If I press escape and change the boot order and select sata 2. It boots up. I restart and try it again and gets stuck.

What happened?

When i select sata 2 it says preparing automatic repair then diagnosing your PC then it says it cannot fix it.

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What is hanging on? disable the HP splash, and see what it is hanging on. Could be bad RAM.

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Can you go into your BIOS and check the boot order? Sounds like it is looking for an OS on the HDD instead of SDD first.

It shows sata 0 which is the SSD.

IM going to try and reinstall it again.

Where in PA are you.....

Half tempted to take a ride if you are close by.

Lancaster county.

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Take all of the drives out of the machine, leaving the ssd in.

 

Install windows on that ssd. 

 

Windows may try to boot off of the other drive, which can and will cause issues. 

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Take all of the drives out of the machine, leaving the ssd in.

Install windows on that ssd.

Windows may try to boot off of the other drive, which can and will cause issues.

Thanks doing that currently.

do I need to turn secure boot on again? If I do I can't boot from usb later.

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I would not turn on secure boot.

Thanks and leave legacy boot enabled then?

It's currently installing. Once I get it up and to the desktop. Do I turn it off then plug in the other two hdd's and continue like Normal?

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read the edit above.

 

 

When you plug in the other drives you want to go into the bios and make sure that the system is not booting to them, only the ssd.

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read the edit above.

When you plug in the other drives you want to go into the bios and make sure that the system is not booting to them, only the ssd.

Thanks. Is secure boot really useful?

I am booted to the desktop now. I'll turn it off. Connect them and check the boot order out.

God damnit. Connected them and restarted and got told "preparing automatic repair."

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Are you installing windows from HP OEM disc that came with your PC?

 

Did you re-format the other hard drives. If there's still windows installed into one it might be a problem. Try deleting the partitions of the HDs using a Parted Magic boot disc or something similar. Then see if windows boot correctly with the HDs plugged. Then reformat the HDs in windows.

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Are you installing windows from HP disc that came with tour PC?

Nope. Using media directly from Microsoft that I downloaded from their media creation tool and put it on a flash drive.

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Completely erased all the drives and now it boots normally. Hmmm

I would like all my software installed on this HDD and the most used stuff on the SSD.

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Completely erased all the drives and now it boots normally. Hmmm

I would like all my software installed on this HDD and the most used stuff on the SSD.

 

You probably had some system files left from the old installation that caused problem with windows.

 

Why do you want to put software on the HDD? You surely have enough of 120GB to install all the softwares (+ a game or 2). Install the OS and all softwares to the SSD and install the games and copy your personal files to the HDDs.

 

Here's my setup. I have 3 SSDs but you can just pretend that the 2nd and 3rd SSDs would be HDDs instead.

 

120GB SATA 3 SSD : OS and all softwares (Visual Studio + Xamarin, Office, Aptana Studio, Photoshop, Krita, Xara, Android Studio, MySQL Workbench, PowerDVD, PowerDirector, AudioDirector, Paint.NET, Notepad++, PeaZip, FreeFileSync, Comodo, Sketchbook Pro, AOMEI Backupper, Avidemux, Handbreake, ...). I still have something like 50GB left on the drive.

 

old 240GB SATA 2 SSD (could be an HDD) : All my personal files. Music, pictures, videos, documents, projects, some portable apps and downloads, ... (still have 80GBs left)

 

480GB SATA 3 SSDs (could be an HDD) : All my games and some downloads (still have lot of space left).

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I had a similar issue with my SSD in Windows from an ASUS motherboard (2007 motherboard). Turned out that my SATA mode was set to "IDE" or something in bios and I had to switch it to "ATA". Then I had to reinstall Windows. Has worked fine since.

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I had a similar issue with my SSD in Windows from an ASUS motherboard (2007 motherboard). Turned out that my SATA mode was set to "IDE" or something in bios and I had to switch it to "ATA". Then I had to reinstall Windows. Has worked fine since.

I can't change ones by itself. I only have an option to change everything.

You probably had some system files left from the old installation that caused problem with windows.

Why do you want to put software on the HDD? You surely have enough of 120GB to install all the softwares (+ a game or 2). Install the OS and all softwares to the SSD and install the games and copy your personal files to the HDDs.

Here's my setup. I have 3 SSDs but you can just pretend that the 2nd and 3rd SSDs would be HDDs instead.

120GB SATA 3 SSD : OS and all softwares (Visual Studio + Xamarin, Office, Aptana Studio, Photoshop, Krita, Xara, Android Studio, MySQL Workbench, PowerDVD, PowerDirector, AudioDirector, Paint.NET, Notepad++, PeaZip, FreeFileSync, Comodo, Sketchbook Pro, AOMEI Backupper, Avidemux, Handbreake, ...). I still have something like 50GB left on the drive.

old 240GB SATA 2 SSD (could be an HDD) : All my personal files. Music, pictures, videos, documents, projects, some portable apps and downloads, ... (still have 80GBs left)

480GB SATA 3 SSDs (could be an HDD) : All my games and some downloads (still have lot of space left).

I may put one or two games on the SSD. most used software is on it.

Pictures,videos, documents are all on one of the HDD's. 90 gig of pictures.

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