blue screen help

Discussion in 'Computer Hardware' started by Thez71guy, Apr 11, 2016.

  1. Thez71guy

    Thez71guy
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    Ok guys my pc has 2 hard drives in it both with windows 7 installed on them but only use my primary drive the other I use for back up files well I was playing around on beamng drive and my pc blue screened and then restarted from my second drive so I restarted it and whenent in to the bios screen and disabled the second drive and only enabled the primary drive but when I whould save and exit it whould go to black screen and then back to the bios screen it will only boot from the second drive but when I go to my computer it shows the primary drive and I can go in to it and all my files are there I just don't know why it won't start from it thanks for any help.
     
  2. BlueScreen

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    You sure your Windows install is on your primary drive? Sounds like it's corrupted, and you've been booting from the second drive. Why do you have two Windows installs anyway? BSOD error code would also help.
     
  3. Thez71guy

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    Well long story short I don't know a whole lot about pcs I know more about them then some people but not a lot I had a so called friend that owned his own his own pc shop and when my pc blue screened one time before I took it to him and he told me it needed a hard drive so I had him put me one in and keep my old one hooked up as a second drive so I could copy my files over so I would not lose everything so finely got it back good for maybe a week and blue screened again then he said it needed a motherboard so I just upgraded the motherboard cpu and gpu and he had it for 2 years and when I got it back worked fine for over a year now but when it blue screened this time and I went into the bios screen I realized he had made the old drive he told me was bad my primary drive so they was never anything wrong with the drive to begin with but I had took it to a pc shop and he told me that the drive is bad now it won't read and write like it is supposed to.
     
  4. SixSixSevenSeven

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    Please use punctuation, that was incredibly difficult to read.

    Migration from your old drive to new drive was never done properly.

    Might need to reinstall windows from scratch on the newer drive (and it may be a good idea to remove and just bin the failed one entirely). Make external backups of any critical files first so you can get them back later of course.
     
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