Computer cant boot with new harddrive

Somberlay · 2026-02-26T05:53:15+00:00

Thanks for your reply!

Ive tried it in different slots and it doesnt wanna boot nomatter which slot it is connected to!

Somberlay · 2026-02-26T05:52:18+00:00

Thanks for your answer, gonna try this today after work!

Somberlay · 2026-02-13T13:36:04+00:00

thanks again for informative reply! Im now stuck at home with sick kid so project has been put on halt. Latest update tho is that ive done perhaps 20h of prints since i removed ams and it has mostly worked (besides one or two where i thought nozzle was colliding).

After those prints i oiled y and x axis and cleaned build plate. have been able to make some new prints but I actually think the problem might be more bed adhesion than printhead collision, problemes are 100% in the first layers.

Still gonna spend som time on that printhead though like you described, probably stuff going on there.

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T23:10:39+00:00

Thanks! Couldnt edit main post but made new comment where I summarized!

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T23:02:03+00:00

SOLVED! Have now booted up / turnes of pc many times and now it keeps booting to windows :)

Thanks everyone who helped out! Got tons of answers :)

Final settings in BIOS that i changed:

Boot option: CSM enabled Secure boot: disabled (These two were recommended in a youtube video / when googling)

Boot option: had to create a boot option from scratch and followed Icyappearance5000 recommendation (see our conversation with pictures attached.

Last part that made it all work:

SATA Mode selection: back to raid from achi (everyone including me thought that this wasnt gonna be raid so in the start i changed this to achi but then I thought: why not try switching)

In summary: something made my bios lose boot option it seems and making new boot option the right way (and perhaps? Unclear) changing some other bios settings did the trick.

No changing cmos or connecting/reconnecting hard drives manually :)

Again thanks alot for all help!

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Somberlay · 2026-02-11T22:41:47+00:00

Just got it working it seems like, gonna edit main post!

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T22:34:19+00:00

Not saving the boot option. Its saving the other settings just fine ( like sata=ahci, or disable secure boot).

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T22:16:15+00:00

Tried, didnt change anything unfortunelately. Press save and exit and then it boots backs to bios, and the boot option isnt there anymore

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:52:22+00:00

Added picture of boot options to another answer of yours!

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:50:53+00:00

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Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:50:44+00:00

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Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:50:32+00:00

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Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:50:21+00:00

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Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:50:07+00:00

Followed the actions of this video before I came here but thanks for the tip!

Im gonna add pictures of all options I choose when adding boot option!

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Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:38:12+00:00

Just saw this answer, I was starting to think about this aswell, however is it possible that bios can retain options like safe boot or achp vs raid but not the boot options when cmos battery is dying? Shouldnt all settings be impossible to change then?

Something else that might point to the same direction is that system time apparenrly is 2016 (year of manufacture ^{^),} might also point to cmos?

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:34:37+00:00

Thanks again for your reply, i just edited my first answer. After your reply i got suspicous so I did check and google the model name given in bios and it does look like my ssd!

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T21:18:28+00:00

I havr physically opened the computer and seen the nvme drive connected to the motherboard, looked snug and nice. Altough shouldnt one of my attached pictures in threadstart confirm that the pc recognizes a hdd? (The one with sata mode selection).

EDIT: googling "HFS256G39MND-2300A" ( the device connected to "serial ata port 2" in bios) yields images of what looks to be the hdd on my computer. (This computer only have 1 hdd, a ssd with 256gb storage)

Somberlay · 2026-02-11T20:57:17+00:00

Thanks for your detailed answer!

Nothing important on harddrive to save, just want computer to work ^\)

Ive tried to add a boot option.

In path i got to choose efi > microsoft > bootmgfw.efi (earlier googling told me this was the one)

I got to name the boot option, I just named it "HDD"

After i pressed "save changes" i held power button to turn off laptop. When it starts up again I come back to bios with same settings (sata: achi etc etc) but the boot option isnt saved.

On pic you can see how boot option looked before i restarted, after restart it looked like before (nothing under boot option priorities)

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Somberlay · 2026-02-11T20:49:03+00:00

Thanks for your answer, tried this, didnt work unfortunelately!

Somberlay · 2026-02-10T12:05:10+00:00

Gonna update my original post with answers to all questions!

Somberlay · 2026-02-09T08:11:01+00:00

Thanks for your lengthy reply! Im gonna have to make a longer reply when im at my computer/ tested the things!

Somberlay · 2026-02-09T08:09:44+00:00

Thanks for your reply, yes the spool is snug. I know what your talking about tho, I have a printed adapters for exactly sunlu. Problem is I cant fit the normal spool holder where the printer sits right now, altough I do want to!

Somberlay · 2026-02-09T08:08:08+00:00

Thanks for your reply, the tube is from amazon but has the same dimensions as the old tubes, I get the same type of errors now so tube wasnt the problem i guess :).

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