my bf plugged in a hard drive and now his pc wont boot

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Naturalhighz@reddit

as people wrote. Could be a faulty drive, unplug it. Also could be boot order, again. unplug it.

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Suspicious-Web-631@reddit

If he plugged a hard drive in and it won't boot, the boot order in BIOS is most likely incorrect now, since the sata cable he connected it to might be in the primary master slot on the motherboard.

Have him check the BIOS settings for which drive to boot to first. Not saying this will fix it, but it might. Also if it's still plugged in and he can't get the PC to start no matter what, just unplug it.

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Maverick_Wolfe@reddit

maybe 20+ years ago.... Bios boot order hasn't been much of a problem since about 2009 even then rare. OP said the PC won't boot... Does it power on and just not go beyond the bios screen? Adding a drive shouldn't prevent the boot order from going south. Only way I could think this would happen os if it were a prebuilt or if the motherboard is an Asus or Gigabyte board.

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Kent_Knifen@reddit

OP, this above is probably your answer.

If that doesn't fix it though, disable fast boot in your BIOS. I had a similar issue a while back and that's what fixed it for me.

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theh0tt0pic@reddit

unplug it

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RayOronoz@reddit

with the details they mention, this is the deserved answer fr

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AllAboutYourBase@reddit

I don't even understand why this thread is getting upvoted so much..

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Matasa89@reddit

Indeed. No pictures, no description, no drive model or even brand, no idea if it is a USB HDD or 3.5 inch SATA. Hell, for all we know, it could be a NVMe drive, since so many people call all drives hard drives.

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Warcraft_Fan@reddit

Probably forced the 20 pin MFM cable in backward.

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Several-Turnip-3199@reddit

Nah its a Flipper Zero with the USB Killswitch and an enclosure to look like a HDD.

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nas2k21@reddit

Fr, like I'm sure it's just his boot order, but for all I know it's just as likely this hdd has " destroyyourpc.exe" on it

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semidegenerate@reddit

If it's not booting into Windows, it's probably destroyyourpc.efi

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KLEBESTIFT_@reddit

Unplugged the PC, now what?

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silverlightBeing@reddit

Water it so it can grow a new BIOS

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theh0tt0pic@reddit

Unplug the harddrive... not the pc

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theh0tt0pic@reddit

Try and power it back on?

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dankmemelawrd@reddit

Maybe take out the hdd and test it out? So many questions with so less details. Was the pc on when the hdd was plugged in? Any power source damage?

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MommysLilMisteak@reddit

She's clearly farming follows for her only fans. Everyone ignore her, y'all.

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steaksoldier@reddit

Making these kinda comments with that username is hilarious tbh.

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MommysLilMisteak@reddit

What comments? I'm a fact

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dankmemelawrd@reddit

What only friends? When his/her account looks like something else lol

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GodsBadAssBlade@reddit

Make sure both ends are secured, sometimes it fucks with the system if its ajar

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speczor@reddit

A malfunction hdd/ssd could fuck the boot EVEN if it's not the boot disk. One of sata ssds died and I could not get past MB logo, when I unplugged it I could complete the boot.

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illtakeontheworld@reddit

how would you know if your hdd is malfunctioning?

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OakleyNoble@reddit

Thought I was in a different subreddit when reading the title.. 😳👀

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Bcronic@reddit

Had a friend who ran into this issue. Ended up him accidentally pulling the cases power button cable from the motherboard.

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codyl0611@reddit

The computer automatically changed the plugged hard drive into the computers boot drive, and unless you happened to have an operating system like windows on that drive, it was bound to fail. Turn the PC on, press the BIOs button, find the setting to change the boot drive, change it to the hard drive that is actually in the computer, save, turn off, turn on.

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TheLonelyAsian1@reddit

Be more specific . A random hard drive?

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North_Passage@reddit

Check the boot order in BIOS if the HDD is the prio. Just simply switch the boot priority to your old disk then it'll be okay

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SuperEarth_President@reddit

Get a new bf

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Terrible-Hornet4059@reddit

Then she'll be unplugged. Can't let THAT happen.

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zoredache@reddit

Go into the system setup (sometimes know as the bios, cmos, setup). Is the original drives still detected? Do you see multiple devices in the boot order setting? Make sure the original drive is first?

Or

When the computer boots can you press a button to select which drive to boot from? The button will often flash on the screen. Sometimes it will be a key like F11, F12, or something else. If you can try doing that and see what is listed. Try booting some of the other things listed.

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unexpectedemptiness@reddit

Boot him instead

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TicTac_No@reddit

Older hard drives required setting jumpers on both drives, and motherboard.

If the jumpers are not set correctly, and the bios is not set correctly, the pc will not boot.

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Temporary_Slide_3477@reddit

Unplug it, if the boot order has USB first it will just hang there forever usually.

Had a friend with the same issue, drove 30 minutes to unplug a flash drive.

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Jjhijoe@reddit

Get new boyfreind with better PC gif

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cheechyee@reddit

Send it to me, I'll fix it right up.

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jcoffin1981@reddit

Boot order most likely. It's also possible that the comp does not like that device for whatever reason and I've seen this happen with various thumb drives too, just remove it.

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awuerth@reddit

Throw it out the window

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N1TEKN1GHT@reddit

Yes

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Bucknerds@reddit

Have you tried turning it off and back on?

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RandomDude04091865@reddit

I've done this sort of thing before. Inevitably what it is is that my tower is cramped and I accidentally bumped something just enough to be loose but not obvious. If I were to give advice, I'd suggest he look at the major connections and make sure he didn't accidentally knock a plug just slightly loose or something in that vein.

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