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So my friend got this new SSD he bougth for a old computer and he lent it to me while I installed winsows 7 on it and some programs. The operating system was working fine on my computer and it lauched just fine.

However when he puts the SSD in his computer he gets the error message: reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.

We've tried some solutions we found on the internet:
-Check CMOS battery
-Set priority order for the SSD (it's the only thing connected and BIOS detects it)
-Checked that cables were firmly in there.

So does anyone have any idea what we might try next?

In advance thank you.
 
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Darkbreeze
If you're sharing the hard drive between computers, which it sounds like you have done, that's not going to work. Each computer has a different BIOS with lots of different hardware settings, different motherboards, processors, memory, hard drive controllers, graphics and sound adapters, all of which most likely use completely different drivers. In most cases you can't just take the hard drive, with an operating system already installed on it, and plug it into another computer and expect it to work. Usually you will at the very least get driver conflicts and at the worst, recurrent blue screens or total corruption of the operating system. You need to put the drive in the computer it's going to stay in and either do a system repair or...
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If you're sharing the hard drive between computers, which it sounds like you have done, that's not going to work. Each computer has a different BIOS with lots of different hardware settings, different motherboards, processors, memory, hard drive controllers, graphics and sound adapters, all of which most likely use completely different drivers. In most cases you can't just take the hard drive, with an operating system already installed on it, and plug it into another computer and expect it to work. Usually you will at the very least get driver conflicts and at the worst, recurrent blue screens or total corruption of the operating system. You need to put the drive in the computer it's going to stay in and either do a system repair or reinstall the operating system and then leave it in that computer unless you plan to reinstall windows each time you swap it into another computer.

On a separate note you need to go into the BIOS on whichever computer it IS installed in and make sure that SATA controller is enabled and that the SSD is set as the first boot device unless you want the CD/DVD drive as the first. (Not IDE or RAID unless you are in fact using those types of hard drives.)
 
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I installed Windows 7 on it and some programs, yet the only driver I installed was the ethernet driver from my own computer, is that enough to ruin it?

I suppose he would have to get an USB to install from as he doesn't have CD-R on his PC.

We do have completely different motherboards so I was afraid the different specs might be the problem. What do you recommend we do now?

Thanks for the quick answer!
 
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any way you put it you need to reinstall the OS while its in his computer, hopefully you didn't register the OS while it was in your computer and it locks the key to the motherboard (win 7) win 8 you will be fine to move the keys around.

As you can see moving an os from one board to another will cause all sorts of issues and is best to just do a fresh install.
 
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It doesn't matter what driver files YOU have installed, Windows installs driver files behind the scenes any time there is a hardware change, if it has access to drivers that it thinks will work. You only get asked about drivers if windows doesn't have any cached that it thinks are the correct ones. And sometimes even when it thinks they are, they're not, and then you have to update them manually to correct issues. In my opinion you should do a clean install of Windows in the system the driver is going to stay in.
 
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