Tuesday, May 26, 2015

windows 8 - Computer claims operating system not found but the hard disk drive is fully operational

I’ve got this Dell XPS 15z laptop laying around with a broken hard driving. I swapped the hard disk drive (same format) of another laptop for an SSD. So I thought I could try to make it work again by replacing the broken hard disk drive with this other hard disk drive which is still working.



Dell Laptop is working, I actually had it working with another hard disk drive on Ubuntu and Pear Linux.



But I need it on Windows 8 for a demo.



My spare hard disk drive, has already Windows 8 installed and if I were to put it back into my other laptop—a Vaio—it would boot and work properly.



But when I put that Windows 8 hard disk drive in my Dell XPS 15z I get the message





Operating System Not Found




I decided then I would try to reinstall Windows 8 with a USB bootable device as explained here.



But when I boot from the USB device I get the error message again:





Operating System Not Found.




I really don’t understand why this is not working.



PS: In the BIOS, I see the hard disk drive with it’s name and everything, so the BIOS is detecting it properly.



I tried to have a windows bootable usb, (OS running on key) when I boot in my usb flash drive, i have the same message again

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