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Processor | Ryzen 9 7950X3D |
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Motherboard | Asus ROG X670E GENE MATX |
Cooling | Phanteks Glacier One 280MPH AIO |
Memory | G.Skill 48GB (2x24GB) F5-8000J4048F24GX2-TZ5RK Trident Z5 RGB 8000MHz DDR5 |
Video Card(s) | ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX OC Edition 24GB GDDR6 |
Storage | Crucial T700 Gen5 2TB NVMe | Crucial P5 Plus Gen4 2TB NVMe | Crucial P5 Plus Gen4 1TB NVMe |
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I have a problem with a family members PC, the PC would not boot from the SATA HDD, corrupted Windows 7 boot sector or the drive is gone bad. Tried to repair boot sector, still no dice. Disconnected HDD, installed a spare SSD which I had lying around and installed Windows 10 without any issues. When I turn off the PC and connect the bad HDD to the one of the SATA ports (tried all) and set the newer SSD with Win 10 installed as the primary boot drive, Windows 10 just sits in limbo unable to boot to the desktop. Removing the bad HDD allows it to boot into windows with no issues from the SDD. I can not fathom how when the HDD is connected it is somehow confusing windows and not allowing to boot from the SSD? All I want to do now is recover whatever files are on the HDD but being unable to boot into windows with the two drives connected is impossible? I've tried connecting the bad HDD SATA whilst booted into windows but I suspect as the specific drivers have not loaded during boot and hot swapping is not achievable this is also impossible.
Is my only option a SATA to USB cable and try and read the drive this way?
Is my only option a SATA to USB cable and try and read the drive this way?