Installed a new SSD, but now old HDD won't boot Windows 10

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myothra7777

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I'm in extreme need of help. I got a Kingston 128gb ssd for christmas, and after plugging it in, my pc would boot and say to insert a proper Bootable device. I unplugged the ssd and it persisted, and I have tried: checking boot order in bios, resetting cmos, scanning hdd for errors (found some and corrected apparently), and repairing and replacing the boot sector, yet it is still not fixed. I am now getting an error at boot saying that no os is found and to detach drives that don't have an os, even though one of the bootrec options in cmd detect windows. So I decided to install windows 10 on the new ssd in order to use disk management, but I still don't know what to do to solve this. I have more than 1tb of data, and I would like to not have to reinstall windows and lose everything. Any help would be great and thank you to anyone who contributes
 
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from what i can see it seems as if your boot priority is messed up try every single priority option and see if it works. Also with the ssd unplugged if the hdd boots note which it is in bootpriority because sometime it is model number and the set it to #1 when ssd is plugged in. i would also recommend keeping os on ssd and backing up your games the formatting HDD and putting your games and stuff back on it, it is the setup i use and is much faster.
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Just to get a clear understanding of your situation...

1. Before you installed the Kingston SSD you had a bootable completely functional system using your HDD? Win 10? It sounds like the HDD may have had a different OS installed on it - Win 7 - Win 8.1, yes?

2. So the problem surfaced only when you installed the Kingston SSD as your boot drive, right? How was Win 10 installed on that drive? Cloned from the HDD or fresh-installed, or MS upgrade?

3. Assuming the HDD still contains all your programs & other data as well as a viable OS, can't you continue to use that bootable disk until you sort out this problem? Why must you "lose everything" at this point?

4. And just as an aside - what do you mean by "(I) decided to install windows 10 on the new ssd in order to use disk management..."? DM is available on all previous OSs.
 
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1.yes, I had a fully functional windows 10 pro HDD that booted fine before. I installed the new empty ssd while the pc was off, and when I turned it back on, it told me to insert proper boot media.

2.Yes, the SSD has a fresh install of windows 10 and the problem only occurred after plugging in the ssd. I never meant to alter boot drives or anything, I merely wanted to have both drives functioning, but keep the HDD as the primary drive for the time being.

3. When I try to launch any of my games from the HDD while running windows on the SSD, they won't work, so the main thing u use my pc for is unavailable at the moment.

4.I mean that the ssd was totally blanl, and I can't boot from the HDD, so I was sick of using a recovery disk and cmd to try to fix things, so I decided to install windows 10 on the ssd so that I can easily manage the HDD from within wondows so that I'm not only limited to cmd. Thanks for responding.

 
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I'm not entirely clear on your situation but I gather you want to use your HDD as the "primary" drive, meaning the boot drive and the SSD will serve as a secondary drive. If that's the case, then ensure that the HDD is connected to the first motherboard's SATA port (connector) - either shown as SATA 0 or SATA 1) and the SSD to the following SATA port.

When you start the boot access the BIOS and check that the boot priority order indicates a first boot to the HDD and not the SSD.

As best I can tell from your description of the problem you're having with your games is apparently because the system is booting to the SSD and not the HDD.
 
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Thanks for the response. My HDD is I'm SATA 0 and the SSD is in SATA1. I tried to Mark the correct sector as the active boot sector, but still nothing is fixed. Sorry that this is such a confusing situation.

 
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from what i can see it seems as if your boot priority is messed up try every single priority option and see if it works. Also with the ssd unplugged if the hdd boots note which it is in bootpriority because sometime it is model number and the set it to #1 when ssd is plugged in. i would also recommend keeping os on ssd and backing up your games the formatting HDD and putting your games and stuff back on it, it is the setup i use and is much faster.
 
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