I'm going to try and remember all the steps I took here hopefully there is something that can help. I was trying to install an SSD on my acer laptop, it has two bays so it should have been easy. I connected the ssd in the second bay without problem. I then cloned my initial hardrive using easeUS total backup. I restarted and all seemed fine. PC could find the new ssd and the original harddrive no problem, however it was not booting from the SSD. I tried using easybcd to set it so it would set the SSD as the primary harddrive, but it would not let me (I'm sorry I don't remember the error). So far no problem, however at this point I formatted my original harddrive (from within windows 81.) thinking this might force the issue and make the laptop default to the ssd to boot.
This didn't work. I got to a stage where I could either boot with windows boot loader or boot from windows 8.1 on the ssd. But neither actually worked. If I tried windows boot loader it would fail, and if I loaded 8.1 it would say preparing windows, stayt like that for aobut 20 minutes and then go to a black screen.
After this I tried resetting windows using the windows recovery tools. It ran till 100% but didn't work, all it did was now when I reset my computer I get an error that says:
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information.
If I go into the bios and change to legacy bios I can boot to a usb drive and using slacko-puppy I was able to get in and see that all my files are on the ssd still. I also tried to use a borrowed USB of windows 8.1 to see if I could repair it, but trying to repair startup fails, and trying to reinstall windows doesn't work because it says the selected disk is of the GPT partition style.
I'm wondering what my next step should be. I was thinking either try
A) cloning BACK from the ssd to the original hardrive using linux (which I imagine I can do but don't know how),
B) using windows USB, removing all partitions from the original harddrive and reformatting to see if I can do a fresh install. There seem to be 2 recovery paritions, one mrb partition, and one pusth button to reset partition
or C) figure out if there is a way to repair boot so that I can bood from the ssd. Obviously this would be the ideal as I wouldn't lose anything.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or advice.
This didn't work. I got to a stage where I could either boot with windows boot loader or boot from windows 8.1 on the ssd. But neither actually worked. If I tried windows boot loader it would fail, and if I loaded 8.1 it would say preparing windows, stayt like that for aobut 20 minutes and then go to a black screen.
After this I tried resetting windows using the windows recovery tools. It ran till 100% but didn't work, all it did was now when I reset my computer I get an error that says:
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information.
If I go into the bios and change to legacy bios I can boot to a usb drive and using slacko-puppy I was able to get in and see that all my files are on the ssd still. I also tried to use a borrowed USB of windows 8.1 to see if I could repair it, but trying to repair startup fails, and trying to reinstall windows doesn't work because it says the selected disk is of the GPT partition style.
I'm wondering what my next step should be. I was thinking either try
A) cloning BACK from the ssd to the original hardrive using linux (which I imagine I can do but don't know how),
B) using windows USB, removing all partitions from the original harddrive and reformatting to see if I can do a fresh install. There seem to be 2 recovery paritions, one mrb partition, and one pusth button to reset partition
or C) figure out if there is a way to repair boot so that I can bood from the ssd. Obviously this would be the ideal as I wouldn't lose anything.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or advice.
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