New HDD, broken MBR (no bootable device found)

krneki

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I've recently replaced my secondary HDD in HP Pavillion dv7 (primary is SSD@W8.1) and as soon as I booted up computer, I got error "no bootable devices found". The first thing that I tried out was bootable USB with Windows 8.1 whereas I ran "automatic repair" several times, without any luck.


Then I opened up command prompt under advanced menu and ran:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd


None helped, probably because of "element not found" error. I also tried with diskpart where I manually selected (see screenshot) SSD system partition for active one, but still without any luck.


I'm really out of ideas, nothing seem to work. I also created bootable Minitool Parition Magic USB and ran Rebuild BCD from there and it still didn't help.


What else could I do, this is really frustrating?


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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1 x64
Windows Boot Manager might be in your old HD. Re-connect your old HD and set it to the first boot device in BIOS to see if it will boot again. If succeeded then download: EasyBCD Portable | Portable X Apps. Run it, and follow the screen shot to move the Boot Manager to C: drive (SSD), disconnect your the old HD then try to reboot again.

NOTE: From the screen shot, replace Z: to C:

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
It looks like you have set the first partition on the SSD as active. I assume this is the Windows install.

That being the case, removing other drives as topguncp suggests is always helpful, but it may take 3 runs of a Startup Repair to replace the boot files in that partition. Since this is Windows 8, the Startup Repair option is, I believe, in the second occurrence of an Advanced Repairs option in the Recovery options.

Or, you could make sure what the OS partition drive letter is and use the command below. You need to use the correct drive letter for the Windows partition, and in the command, I will assume it is C: but use what you show.

bcdboot c:\Windows /s C:
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Grown
    CPU
    i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z77 -v Pro, Z87-Expert
    Memory
    16 G
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GTX 680 Classified (2)
    Hard Drives
    Kingston SSD 240 GB
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