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Laptop can't detect an OS

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lurch61390 Posts 1 Registration date Wednesday 9 November 2016 Status Member Last seen 9 November 2016 - 9 Nov 2016 à 21:29
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday 8 October 2008 Status Contributor Last seen 15 June 2019 - 10 Nov 2016 à 14:09
Im trying to take an old laptop hardrive and put it into my wife's desktop. It has windows 7 and all that on it it, its a hardrive that i used to use. But when I put it into my wife's computer all i get is a message saying that it can't detect an OS and it just keeps rebooting with that message.
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday 8 October 2008 Status Contributor Last seen 15 June 2019 1,824
10 Nov 2016 à 14:09
Perhaps the old hard drive is not assigned a drive letter by the desktop BIOS.

You need to boot into the BIOS and examine/modify the drive assignments.

Good Luck