I bought a new HDD and I was trying to boot from the new one. I had cloned the Old drive onto the new HDD and I followed this (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/223188/how-to-restore-the-system-boot-drive-letter-in-windows) guide in an attempt to boot off my new HDD. If you read the guide it tells one to change certain values in the registry, I suspect this might be the problem? As my computer is now when I turn it on I get the motherboard splash art and then a black screen where I can move around my cursor. I don't think its a hardware Issue as my computer was working fine before and after cloning the old drive. My PC runs windows 10.
So far I've tried:
Running in safe mode, which doesn't change anything
Changing the boot order of my drives, which doesn't change anything
Repairing my computer, which yields a Windows failed to start screen, with three steps, and an error code, telling me insert my Windows installations disk.
How do I fix this? And is my data lost to the abyss? Thanks.
So far I've tried:
Running in safe mode, which doesn't change anything
Changing the boot order of my drives, which doesn't change anything
Repairing my computer, which yields a Windows failed to start screen, with three steps, and an error code, telling me insert my Windows installations disk.
How do I fix this? And is my data lost to the abyss? Thanks.