Windows 10: Hard drive no longer boots, cant repair windows, but it recognises a previous installation...

So i suffered a bunch of hardware failures, had to replace motherboard and ram, but the hard drive also appears to have been effected. i put it in a secondary laptop and was able to copy files across as backup.Next i treid to repair via windows media on usb, but it said i could only do a fresh install as i cant enter windows, meaning it will overwrite my filesBut when i went to install it says it recognise there was a previous install of windowsso my question is, is there anything else i can do before doing a fresh install and wiping the drive?i checked in cmd prompt and it says the disk isnt

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Installing windows from usb hard drive

i repair alot of computers and install windows alot. currently i have to carry about a big cd wallet with all my disks but i use a usb hard drive just now for installing windows 7 32 because its soo much faster to install.

now my question is is there a way to put all my windows disks on the one hard drive and boot the iso i select? like a boot manager for iso files? that way i could have all my windows, linux and boot disks all one one drive rather than a load of dvds.

my only other option was a flash drive for each operating system but thats an expensive way to do it.

 

Hard drive as if wondows is not installed

My pc is acting as if there is no OS even tho it is installed on the hard drive. NO bios setting are funny and nothing was changed, i got a random blue screen and when it restarted it went all funny.

I have tried the windows vista disk and tried to do a fixboot and fixmbr but there is no hard drive when you go to repair. And as such comand prompt is X: becasue it dosnt recognise the file system

It comes up tho when you go to reinstall it says 500gb drive 300gb used, if you search for a driver you can see that every file is there same as before.

The hard drive is fine and NO i am not going to simply reinstall.


How can i repair this. I have it set to just boot from hard drive and boot from boot from cd for second? No funny settings nothing its strange like *Wtf :wtf:

Im on my back up pc btw. Yes i did google first for some help but i couldnt find anything.

EDIT: that should say WINDOWS in the title not WONDOWS argh!

 

Samsung M3 portable hard drive not getting recognised on Windows 10.

Hi,

Thank you for your response with the current status of the issue.

To assist you better, please provide us the below information

• Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the external hard drive on the computer?
• Are you logged into the Administrator Account while assigning the driver letter to the external hard drive?

I recommend you to follow the steps below to update all the pending Windows updates and also try to reinstall the hard drive driver in the Device Manager. Check if it helps.

Step 1: I suggest you to update all the pending Windows updates in the computer and check if it helps.

1. Click on Start Menu.

2. Then select Settings.

3. Choose Update & security >
Windows Update >Check for updates. Install any available updates and restart your PC if required.

Step 2: I recommend you to uninstall and reinstall the Hard drive as suggested in the previous post. Also you can run Hardware and Device troubleshooter.

Step 3: Then try to boot the computer in safe mode and check if the hard drive is getting recgonized in it or not.

Start your PC in safe mode in Windows 10:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-10/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode

Please get back to us with an update on issue in connecting External hard drive into Windows 10, we will be happy to help.

Thank you.