Windows 10: Booting problems on SSD

Hi everyone!


I have been using my PC with an SSD as my primary drive for about half a year now. I used a cloning software to clone my old HDD onto the SSD, and it worked perfectly, until now. Today my pc bluescreened while playing Overwatch, don't know if thats relevant and afterwards it just wouldn't boot. I get the error code 0xc000000e, it gives me the option to resume the booting process, but when I do I recieve error code 0xc000021a. I plugged in my old HDD, which still has windows 10 installed, as a primary drive and am running the SSD as secondary right now. Everythiing seems to show up on the drive and it seems to work just fine, so it leads me to believe that something is wrong with the booting. I tried thing that were recommended on a different thread, using the repair tool on the windows installation CD, but it didn't work. Windows has been asking me to update for about a week, I was waiting to have more time to install it, but I didn't think it could have such catastrophic consequences to ignore an update for a bit.


Is there a way to return to a previous point of windows on a secondary drive? Or maybe to update it? Or something else I could try? If nothing works I'll have to completely reinstall everything on the SSD, but I live on the outskirts of my city with very slow internet, and I would like to avoid downloading all my stuff again.


Thanks to eveyone in advance, cheers.

:)

 

Windows 10 1709 System Restore problems...

That seems to be an attempt at Option 2 in the tutorial, which requires you to
a. Boot to a command prompt (Did you?)
b. You then seem to be mixing steps 3,4 and 5, thus your command is incorrect.

I suggest Option 1 is easier.

If you still have problems, please repost listing each specific step and saying which option from the tutorial you are using. Thanks.

 

Unable to boot Windows after cloning it to SSD

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand that you are facing issues while booting the PC after cloning Windows to new SSD. I would like to know what happens when you try to boot the PC to desktop using SSD?



The reason you are not able to boot the PC is that the files required to boot Windows are still recognizing the HDD as the main drive. I would suggest you to try rebuilding the BCD files and see if you are able to boot the PC using
SSD.



Kindly follow the steps below to rebuild the BCD.

1. Create a bootable media and boot the PC using the media.
2. On the Install Windows screen, select Next >
   Repair your computer.
3. On the System Recovery Options screen, select
   Troubleshoot> Advanced options > Command Prompt.
4. Now type in the commands and hit enter: BOOTREC /FIXMBR
   
   BOOTREC /FIXBOOT
   
   BOOTREC /scanos
   
   BOOTREC /rebuildbcd
5. Restart the PC.

If the issue persists, please get back to us with the results of the troubleshooting steps to assist you further.



Regards,

Prakhar Khare

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

SSD booting problem

I recently purchased an SSD drive (Lexar 480GB) and installed Win10 on it. I had 3 other hard drives but when I installed Windows on the SSD, I had all 3 hard drives disconnected to ensure the whole installation is all on the SSD. After the installation,
I confirmed the SSD boots no problem, then re-connected the other 3 hard drives back, and the system also boots up perfectly. After the system has been running a couple of weeks, I decided to reformat one of the drives (will call it "D" here). Following are
the sequence of events:

1) Booted up from SSD, disk manager showed D: drive had 4 partitions, so I tried to delete a couple of them but didn't have the option in Disk Manager (when right-click, only show "Help" option).

2) Started Command Prompt in admin mode and tried "diskpart - list disk - select disk - clean" but got an error saying clean could not be perform because the drive contained boot partition (can't remember the exact message). That D: drive indeed was once
a boot drive.

3) I then disconnected the SSD and 2 other hard drives (just to ensure I don't erase any data on those drives in error), leaving only the D: drive connected and booted my PC with a Windows Installation Disk on a USB drive, went to the Command Prompt (i.e.
"Trouble-shoot"...... ) and tried again "diskpart - list disk - select disk - clean" and it was successful.

4) Shut down PC to remove the USB and re-connected all drives, re-booted, but the PC couldn't boot (I see cursor flashed a few times, and seems to go into a loop, never saw any message). It seems almost like the PC couldn't find a bootable disk.

5) Re-started my PC but pressed F2 to go to the boot menu. I could see all the hard drives listed, along with the SSD, so I selected the SSD and re-booted .... only to get the same result as "4" above.

6) Re-booted with the USB drive again (i.e. installation disk), went to Command Prompt and checked the SSD: all files and folders appear to be intact.

7) Tried "Repair Start-up" with the installation disk but wasn't able to repair.

I don't understand why I now couldn't boot from the SSD considering everything is the way it was when the PC booted fine. Any assistance would be much appreciated.

SSD Disk Manager info: GPT, NTSF, Primary Partition (a "reserved partition with about 16GB on the same drive).