Windows 10: Boot error w/ replacing 500GB internal secondary drive?

Hi all

This is so confusing to me, and after three hours of finagling, I've decided to ask for help!

I have a Dell Studio 1737 laptop.

Inside are two hard drive bays.

Drive C --- contains my OS (Windows 10) and program files. --- 500 GB
Drive E --- contains my documents, pictures, etc. ---- 500 GB

Tonight, I bought a 2TB internal drive to upgrade my E drive (the documents, etc.)

So, I opened up the laptop, took out the existing drive, swapped in the new larger drive, closed up the laptop and restarted.

Upon trying to boot, I get a message

PXE-E61 : Media test failure
PXE-MOF: Exiting Broadcom
PXE ROM Opertaing system not found

which is rather odd, since my OS resides on the C drive that I haven't removed.

I booted to BIOS and made sure the C drive was still in the first position, and it was and tried rebooting. Same error message.

So, I plug in the old drive I just swapped out into a USB port and tried to boot from it through BIOS, and surprise, Windows starts up normally.

The only thing I can find in disk management is that the OS indeed resides on C: drive, but there's an OEM Partition for some reason on the old E: drive that I'm trying to replace. Could that be the cause of these problems?

I didn't think swapping out a smaller, non-OS drive would be this difficult but it's stymied me.

Any suggestions?

:)

 

N80 fault with clock & date

I guess there must be a secondary internal battery for the clock like on a PC - maybe that needs replacing?

Whatever - as the previous post suggests, it's a service center job, I'm afraid.

 

Blue Screen error (winload.efi missing or contains error)

Hello,

This is my first time asking question here and sorry for bad english.

PC hardware: i5-7400, mb - Gigabyte H270M-D3H, HDDs - 1tb seagate barracuda and 500gb seagate hdd.

At that time i only had seagate 1tb hdd. I dont know why but my 1tb hdd somehow converted to dynamic disk and i cant install win10 in it, all options are disabled format, delete, next, extend etc. I was installing win10 beccause my old win10 got some error
and cant be loaded and i formated drive C by cmd ( dont know why, i just thought that could enable next button). So i purchased new 500gb hdd and installed win10 successfully on it and backuped all my data from 1tb hdd to 500gb hdd then i deleted all partitions
of 1tb and converted it to basic disk with gpt partition style. Then i installed win10 on 1tb hdd and when i tried to copy all data from hdd my pc very slowed down and all partitions of 500gb hdd gone from This pc. Then i tried to boot my pc with 500gb hdd
and it showed winload.efi missing error and 500gb hdd started makeing clicking sound. Then i changed power cable connted to 500gb hdd (which is unable to load win10 and making clicking sound and can't be shown its partitions when i boot from 1tb hdd) and clicking
sound is gone and then i booted my pc from 1tb hdd and all partitions are accessible by opening This Pc icon. So i copied all data from 500gb hdd to 1tb hdd. Then i thought i should also install win10 correctly in 500gb (which is showing winload.efi missing
error) and when i did installed win10 in 500gb hdd i can't boot from 1tb hdd now (it is showing same error winload.efi missing).

I was installing win10 in 500gb hdd again bcz if 1tb hdd shows some error or again converts to dynamic disk so i change boot option and boot from 500gb hdd and backup all data from 1tb hdd and i could try to solve error.

And then i tried to install win10 in 1tb hdd again and it always shows some error, after finishing last step of installation and restarting, like winload.efi is missing and sometimes other files also. I have tried 7-8 times to install win10 in 1tb hdd and
i can't it always endup in showing some error. But i can install and run window from 500gb hdd. I also deleted all partitions of 1tb hdd and created again after copying all data from 1tb hdd to 500gb hdd but nothing happens.

The reasion is C drive is of 50gb only of 500gb hdd and other left size is D drive in which all my data is currently present.

So please guys help me i want to install win10 in 1tb hdd and make it my primary hdd and i want to use 500gb hdd as secondary hdd for backing up etc.

My current conditiong is i am able to run win10 installed in 500gb hdd and i can't install windows in 1tb hdd

 

Hello. Have you tried telling BIOS to boot from your C drive?

 

It's possible that during windows installation part of it is also on second drive. That OEM partition on second drive makes me think of that and also symptoms you describe.
A place to start: Startup Repair - Run in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

get your PC to boot into windows with whatever you have to..

What is the size of the OEM partition on drive E ??

And how many partitions are on drive E ??

Do you know if your PC is booting in BIOS Mode or UEFI mode ??

you can RUN system information to find out.. > "C:\Windows\system32\msinfo32.exe"

Can you post a picture of Disk Management