installed additional OS drive into old tower but can't boot from it

tuned2e

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Jan 15, 2015
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My main computer had the power supply go up on it and while doing so, took a lot of my other hardware and motherboard with it. I salvaged a few HDDs though, the main of which being the OS drive.

I've installed it in my bedroom computer and can write/read from it (while booted from a different OS drive) but can't seem to boot from it directly. The option is available in BIOS but when I select it as the drive I'd like to boot from windows logo hangs for a second and the BSoD flashes really quickly and reboot into continuous loop.

I've ran Error Checking for it (while booted from my other OS drive) as well as CHKDSK in command. All comes back clean. Windows repair (with original windows 7 disk) cant find an issue with it. I even went and did a recovery from a week ago (before the PSU blew). Still the same issue. Ran the following: Bootrec.exe/fixmbr, /fixboot, /rebuildbcd. Still experiencing the issue. Disabled auto reboot on sysfail to read BSoD. BSoD tells me to run chkdsk and to remove any recently installed hardware (but that OS HDD is the only hardware I've added) and I've ran chkdsk enough times already to prove to myself that the drive is not faulty. Drivers are up to date.

Any ideas?
 
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Them's the breaks.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The father apart the hardware, the less likely it is to work.

And when it doesn't work, there is little you can do about it short of a full reinstall.

USAFRet

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Them's the breaks.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The father apart the hardware, the less likely it is to work.

And when it doesn't work, there is little you can do about it short of a full reinstall.
 
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