New Win8 Pro with WMC install to a new Intel SSD on an old Dell Inspiron 530. I got everything activated and working fine, and then I swapped the SSD for the old HDD to finish getting all my data. But when I swapped the SSD back in, I can no longer get Windows 8 to boot--it goes into automatic repair, but none of the options are available to me. Refresh won't work, reset won't work, I can't even get system restore to work (it shows me two restore points available, but it won't let me select them.) I'm lost and seeking help.
This was a clean install, so it has the 350MB recovery partition. I believe the RAID is set properly (I have no straight up AHCI option in BIOS, but I installed Win8 under RAID [it shows "AHCI Bios enabled!" during POST], and remembered to change to IDE mode to boot the HDD, and back to RAID before trying to boot the SSD).
I've always been able to troubleshoot these sorts of problems under XP or 7 thanks to Google, but I'm just not familiar with these Win8 processes (or SSDs/AHCI/RAID stuff) yet. I've got all the linux tools, Hirens, etc. available, and can verify that the files on the SSD appear to be fine, but no idea what to try to fix. I could reinstall if necessary, but really don't want to have to deal with the upgrade and re-activating--and even if I do have to reinstall, it'd help to know what went wrong to avoid/be able to fix it in the future.
Appreciate any help--happy to provide more info if needed, just lemme know. Will be checking back regularly today. Thanks!!
This was a clean install, so it has the 350MB recovery partition. I believe the RAID is set properly (I have no straight up AHCI option in BIOS, but I installed Win8 under RAID [it shows "AHCI Bios enabled!" during POST], and remembered to change to IDE mode to boot the HDD, and back to RAID before trying to boot the SSD).
I've always been able to troubleshoot these sorts of problems under XP or 7 thanks to Google, but I'm just not familiar with these Win8 processes (or SSDs/AHCI/RAID stuff) yet. I've got all the linux tools, Hirens, etc. available, and can verify that the files on the SSD appear to be fine, but no idea what to try to fix. I could reinstall if necessary, but really don't want to have to deal with the upgrade and re-activating--and even if I do have to reinstall, it'd help to know what went wrong to avoid/be able to fix it in the future.
Appreciate any help--happy to provide more info if needed, just lemme know. Will be checking back regularly today. Thanks!!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Inspiron 530
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Motherboard
- stock
- Memory
- 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce GT430
- Hard Drives
- Intel X25-M SSD + spinners