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Laptop can't detect an OS

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lurch61390 Posts 1 Registration date Wednesday November 9, 2016 Status Member Last seen November 9, 2016 - Nov 9, 2016 at 09:29 PM
xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Nov 10, 2016 at 02:09 PM
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 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,827
Nov 10, 2016 at 02:09 PM
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
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