Got a new ssd, popped it in with the rest of my drives and now won’t boot

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indridcoldxx

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Hi. I received a new SSD and plugged it in no problem. This was not a replacement, just added storage. Unfortunately my main SSD now won’t boot. It kept saying that the operating system was not detected. I reseated all the cables and nothing happened. Tried a few different SATA cables but no dice. The main ssd is recognized in the bios but won’t boot. I decided it might be faulty boot order but no it was in the proper booting order, in fact it is set as booting device #1. I then disconnected all my drives aside from my main one and it now says please insert proper boot device.

There was no power surge, my pc was off while I plugged in the new one.

Windows 10. Desktop PC. Mobo is Z87MX-D3H. Bios version F2
Let me know if I need anything else.
What should I do?
 
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It might be that the boot manager for you windows install is on one of the hard drives even though you have windows on the SSD. If you PC is funny about what SATA ports it will access first it will need the HDD with the boot manager hooked up in the port that the motherboard accesses first. I had some problems like this with a PC that swapped a bigger drive into recently and it refused to boot into windows because the boot manager that makes windows boot was on the the old HDD so the motherboard thought there was no operating system. I just installed a windows fresh on the system after I found out what SATA port reads first. That might be what's happening. You may have to find out what port reads first put you Windows SSD on another...
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dragonstar914

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You may need to set boot order in BIOS, change the order that your SATA cords are plugged into you motherboard, or both. Some older motherboards require you to have your boot drive plugged into the lowest number SATA port being used for it to boot.
 
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dragonstar914

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I have had finicky PC's before. If you get everything working I would close the case and not open it again unless I have too :lol:
 
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dragonstar914

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It might be that the boot manager for you windows install is on one of the hard drives even though you have windows on the SSD. If you PC is funny about what SATA ports it will access first it will need the HDD with the boot manager hooked up in the port that the motherboard accesses first. I had some problems like this with a PC that swapped a bigger drive into recently and it refused to boot into windows because the boot manager that makes windows boot was on the the old HDD so the motherboard thought there was no operating system. I just installed a windows fresh on the system after I found out what SATA port reads first. That might be what's happening. You may have to find out what port reads first put you Windows SSD on another port then try all your HDD's in the boot port.
 
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dragonstar914

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If you can put your drives on there original Sata ports with out the new one connected and get it to boot that may be your problem. The one I had to do that with was a Gigabyte board too
 
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indridcoldxx

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I don;t know why I didn't try that first. I tried booting from another HDD and it seems to have started the windows repair. Before I close this, there are small files in a folder that I had, namely documents. The repair thing said it would keep my personal files and delete the rest. Are those considered personal files? or will everything be removed
 
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dragonstar914

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It says it can do that it will save the files in your documents and I believe pictures and music files too. Anything not in those user account associated files on that disk will be erased. Those files it will save are the ones windows created and anything you put in them
 
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