Windows 10: Trying to boot windows10 on my upgraded PC from my existing boot disk..

I have an i7-14700k processorMSI z790 tomahawk max wifiMSI RTX 4070 GPUA Kingston 2TB NVME2xSSDs2xHDDs1xbluray RW driveI am on the latest BIOS, I had to change the drive type from UEFI to CSM to be able to select my old boot drive but no joy. Tried a recovery USB but it won’t let me recover to the NVME drive or the old SSD. I a, a bit stuck as I don’t want to lose any data and I don’t have any windows 10 media as it was a download update to when this was a windows 7 pc a few years ago. Just trying to get back to windows 10 so I can upgrade to 11.

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no boot

hi, new pc builder here. i just built a pc and tried to boot it up with a windows xp disk that came with my old computer. nothing happens, and it may be because i have a crippled disk, that is, maybe it is just a restore or repair disk. in any event, i won't buy windows again until windows 7 is issued and maybe not even then. in an attempt to get the new system to boot up i just ordered an ubuntu linux disk. if the linux disk does not get the pc booted up, what suggestions does the forum have? for background info, i can get the bios without a problem. i also get some memory test screen all the time also (the odd thing about the memory test screen is that it says that the system has a cpu that i definitely did not build the pc with). any ideas from the forum members for getting this system booted up? thanks for your suggestions.

 

Booting GRLDR

during install did it ever give the option as to which boot loader youd like to use? because sounds like your boot loader is F@#$%d you can pop in the disk and try reinstalling the boot loader or you can reinstall the OS and i suggest using GRUB

 

upgrading to SSD and unable to boot into Windows10 (EFI hidden)

Hi,

I am unable to boot into windows 10 after completing the installation successfully. PC is HP Prodesk G3 small form factor (business PC)

All files are being written to the SSD but just can not boot. The disk is GPT and secure boot is enabled. I am unable to find an option for AHCI in bios so hope its set correctly.

Startup repair returns (couldnt repair your PC) > C:\windows\system32\logfiles\srttrail.txt

Disk Part shows a 100MB volume listed as FAT32 which is the EFI volume and I am guessing that becasue this volume is hidden the PC is unable to use boot manager? When attemptimg to boot afer install it does list UEFI: Windows Boot Manager , but only a black
screen after.

Would really appreciate assistance in sorting this as I am trying to upgrade.