Windows 10: Problems Installing a Working HDD in Another Laptop

I have a Dell Inspiron 5555 laptop that came with Windows 10, but the hard drive failed about 6 months ago. I also have another Dell laptop - Inspiron 1546, that came with Windows 7 but was upgraded to 10 about a year ago. The 1546 is old and has some physical problems with the hinges and power cord.

Now the 5555 boots up just fine when I put in the HDD from an identical 5555. And the 1546 boots just fine with the current HDD. But when I put the 1546 drive in the 5555 I get this Dell diagnostics screen that ultimately tells me that I have no bootable device. I even ran the 1546 drive through chkdsk and it found no bad clusters.

My guess is that there's something in the BIOS of the 5555 that's causing a problem.

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Hi Johan,

It is possible that your
HDD was unreadable
causing the error message to appear. We recommend that you perform these troubleshooting steps and check if there are any changes:

• 
  Shutdown
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Unhooked
  the
  HDD
  and
  turn on
  your
  PC.
  
• 
  Reconnect
  your
  HDD
  and
  restart
  your
  PC.
  

If the issue persists, we suggest that you contact your
laptop/computer's manufacturer
for further assistance.

Update us on how it goes.

Regards.

 

Problems booting HDD / win10 install problems


Thanks for the reply.
Fixed the wifi problem on my own laptop that way, but my step dad did not know how to do this so he just started win7 recovery and than got stuck in loop. Want to try to restore win7 but Microsoft wont let me dowload the file and my step dad cant find any recovery disk. I can try to run from the backup, but the backup file was made by connecting the hdd as external to another laptop when he got stuck in the windows install loop. Tried clean installing win10 from media creation time for like the 10th time yesterday, but at the end of the install the laptop automatically restarts and starts the process over again (using the custom install option).

Another major problem atm is, as mantioned, that the laptop wont read / boot from the hdd. I can find it in the boot menu(as number 1 when not using usb). But the toshiba skips this step and goes straight to booting from network card. This means that i cant use the automatic install option on media creation tool, since it tells me to remove usb unit and restart (boot from hdd), and continue installation...

any tip on getting the hdd to boot or how to get a leagal win7 install file?