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Solved "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media"

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ThePerfectName

ThePerfectName

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Hello,
a few days ago, while I was rebooting my computer after updating windows, my CPU died, such amazing luck. I am sure of this because I replaced the PSU, MOBO and RAM. After changing all of this components my pc wouldn't POST. Today I borrowed a pc from my parents and I insert my SSD. And i have this "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". My disck is visible in BIOS. I set this disk boot priority to 1, this doesn't help. I'm also confused, because I have other HDD disk with installed windows 10 on it that boots windows just fine. I checked all of files on my "broken" SSD and non of the files are missing, I run chkdsk on it. Nothing wrong. I also benchmarked it and it works as fine as I remeber. What's wrong with it then? Sorry for my english it isn't my native language.

My specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P7H55/USB3
CPU: i3 530
RAM: Kingstone 2x4GB.
SSD: Trion 100 240GB
HDD: Seagate 250GB.
 
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ThePerfectName said:
Today I borrowed a pc from my parents and I insert my SSD. And i have this "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". My disck is visible in BIOS. I set this disk boot priority to 1, this doesn't help. I'm also confused, because I have other HDD disk with installed windows 10 on it that boots windows just fine.
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You cannot take a storage device that has Windows on it out of one PC, put it into another and expect it to work.

Reason why not, Windows tries to load the drivers for the original motherboard and they will obviously not work with a totally different board.

Solution, keep the present boot drive and use your drive as a second storage device to access your data.
 
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Thank you very much. I asked the same question on two other big hardware forums and no one could help me. So in order for it to work I just need to clean this disk (restoring it to factory settings) and installing windows on fresh disk right?
 
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