Alright, so I've bought and built a brand new PC. I got a fancy new case, motherboard and cpu, gfx card, ram, and of course a psu. The hard drives I transfered from my old PC. I thought this might cause trouble, but I found some info saying that W8 should not have issues:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/can-i-move-my-hard-drive-installed-with-windows-8/7c25c362-5d92-4203-8ee3-706ff1876969
Well, that turned out not to be true in my case. I have one SSD with Windows 8.1 on it, and two internal hard drives. I hooked everything up but when I power up, before it ever gets to Windows I get an error:
0xc000000f, boot selection failed because a required device is unaccessible (translated from Dutch).
"Can't boot Windows. This may be due to changed hard- or software."
It also says I can try using the Windows disc to repair my installation. I want to do that, the only problem is I didn't install a DVD drive (I haven't used my old one in years). I wanted to install my old drive to remedy this, but it's an IDE and the new motherboard has no IDE connector. So, I figure I'll have to get a new one.
Now if I do, there might be another issue: my Windows 8 was a digital upgrade from a W7 installation from DVD (neither are OEM). So if I run the recovery, that'll be a W7 one. Do you reckon that will be a problem in this case?
So, I have 3 questions:
1. Am I doing something wrong and can I solve this error without using the recovery from the dvd?
2. Will the recovery even work from a W7 disk?
3. If not, I suppose I'll have to bite the bullet and do a complete reinstall. Any advice with regards to saving my data now that I can't access it?
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/can-i-move-my-hard-drive-installed-with-windows-8/7c25c362-5d92-4203-8ee3-706ff1876969
Well, that turned out not to be true in my case. I have one SSD with Windows 8.1 on it, and two internal hard drives. I hooked everything up but when I power up, before it ever gets to Windows I get an error:
0xc000000f, boot selection failed because a required device is unaccessible (translated from Dutch).
"Can't boot Windows. This may be due to changed hard- or software."
It also says I can try using the Windows disc to repair my installation. I want to do that, the only problem is I didn't install a DVD drive (I haven't used my old one in years). I wanted to install my old drive to remedy this, but it's an IDE and the new motherboard has no IDE connector. So, I figure I'll have to get a new one.
Now if I do, there might be another issue: my Windows 8 was a digital upgrade from a W7 installation from DVD (neither are OEM). So if I run the recovery, that'll be a W7 one. Do you reckon that will be a problem in this case?
So, I have 3 questions:
1. Am I doing something wrong and can I solve this error without using the recovery from the dvd?
2. Will the recovery even work from a W7 disk?
3. If not, I suppose I'll have to bite the bullet and do a complete reinstall. Any advice with regards to saving my data now that I can't access it?
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