Installed windows on a new ssd, wiped data on old ssd and removed old ssd from my pc. Doesn't appear to boot?

HugoBruins · Oct 13, 2016

So, recently i installed windows on my new 180gb 520 series intel ssd and i wanted to remove my old 60gb ssd. I removed the partitions on it so everything on the old ssd should be gone right? So i removed it. Sadly i couldn't boot up windows after removal. It told me: Missing crucial component. What happend here?!

Boogieman_WD · Oct 13, 2016

Hey there, HugoBruins.

Did you happen to have the old SSD connected to the motherboard during the Windows installation on the new SSD? It's not a rare occasion that some of the system files and/or partitions might get written on a secondary drive during a Windows installation process, that's why it's always recommended that you have all secondary storage drives disconnected from the mobo.
Try repairing your Windows via the installation media, to see if it fixes things up. Unfortunately if that doesn't help, you might have to do a fresh install once again. If you decide to do that and if you have data which you need to recover from that drive, you could use Ubuntu Live USB to access it and transfer the files to another HDD.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

HugoBruins · Oct 13, 2016

Well, i installed windows again and removed the old one and everything appears to work fine. Thanks for writing it down for me.

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