Im having strange issues with my ssd

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asdfwright

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okay me and a friend were testing out graphics cards in my rig and after removing the test graphics card and rebooting with the normal one in i kept being welcomed to a bsod, so it was saying i was missing winloader and i couldnt use my usb drive to repair it. I went ahead and put windows 10 on another ssd and installed it, there was another harddrive in my pc while i was installing windows but now when i remove that hd from the computer windows doesnt boot on the ssd but it only boots with the hd connected. And its booting to the ssd, but w/o the hd it doesnt
 
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You messed up the BootLoader that says 'where' things are to be loaded from AND you INSTALLED to the HD not the SSD.

SO... your course of action:
1) Make a USB thumbdrive of Linux (like Ubuntu)
2) Manually interrupt the boot and select to boot from Thumbdrive
3) manually delete the Windows install on the HDD
4) unplug HDD, plug in ONLY SSD
5) Install clean copy of Windows from another thumbdrive to the SSD
6) Plug in the HDD and again INTERRUPT the BIOS/UEFI, make sure to have the HDD at the lowest part of the BOOT LOAD ORDER, and the SSD FIRST
7) Reboot and see if it will fix itself at this point (SSD + HDD).
8) If not then you will need a MBR (Master Boot Record) tool to boot off of and manually edit the HDD to remove it being a boot device.
 
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What happens is the MS installer likes to hide some boot files on other drives if it detects them - and it doesn't bother to tell you this. It's one of the few things that really annoys me with windows. Always disconnect everything except the boot drive when installing windows or this happens. It's not necessarily that you installed to the wrong drive or set the wrong boot order, it's just an annoying quirk of the windows installer.
 
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I appreciate the answer,But i have a usb drive with windows, I only have a macbook pro, along with my desktop but i installed the windows from the usb to the ssd that is larger than the actual hard drive, I have no way of reformatting the ssd unless i can do from a linux distribution and i cannot see my ssd on diskpart. Any other suggestions?


 
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asdfwright

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well this quirk crippled my computer completely. I don't have another desktop to reformat the ssd and format it to the correct format and I'm out of a desktop till i can get windows onto something else



 
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Boot off the windows USB drive again, only have the SSD connected. Either do a repair install or a complete install again. You can choose to delete any partitions with the custom install option - no need to make new partitions just delete the old ones it'll partition the disk automatically if you point it at an empty unpartitioned disk.

I'd walk you through the steps but I would need to do it myself and I don't have access to my PC right now, but basically if you just do it again with only the SSD connected you should be fine.
 
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asdfwright

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Alright cool, atm I found a old laptop hard drive with win 10 so imma boot with that format the ssd disconnect the laptops hd then install windows on the ssd, but quick question does the ssd have to be mbr or gpt


 
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Ok basically me trying to format my ssd to gtp made my laptop hd unbootable. i dont know what the hell to do now.


 
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I'm sorry, it's hard to figure out what you're doing from here. Just connect the SSD, boot from the windows USB drive, and reinstall windows.
There was no need to use the laptop drive or reformat the SSD - just let the windows installer do it's thing. If you want to wipe the previous attempt just choose custom install, and when it lists the drive partitions select them and delete them all 1 by 1. Windows will recreate partitions and format them itself.

I'm sorry if I'm making things worse, maybe you need to wait until someone can give you more step by step instructions.

Windows 10 will work with either GPT or MBR, for larger drives over 2TB GPT is needed.
 
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