Laptop HD into Desktop

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thedoors27

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Every couple of years or so I make a thread regarding the laptop from hell.

The laptop fails to start- endless cycle of Windows repair and recovering Windows/reinstalling Windows fails to work. (Just hangs at the options screen)

So me being naive took out the Hd and connected it to my desktop. I have a spare sata space along with data/signal cable and power cable. Set BIOS to load from my Hitachi drive, which is my main desktop hd etc , the laptop hd is a western digital.

Low and behold nothing happens...

All I want to do is format the laptops hd and then see if that fixes it.

Any info would be grand!
 
Yeah you won't be able to boot from the laptop HDD because it has the Windows installation from your laptop on it and of course your desktop has different hardware.

Attach your laptop hard drive to your PC, boot up using your usual boot hard drive, and then in Windows right click on the laptop drive in My Computer and then select format.
 
It should boot to your main drive if you set it like that. Then you can go ahead and format the drive. I'd also run the diagnostics on it to be sure the drive is good.
 
Yep, I'm trying to boot from my main hd - the hitachi, but nothing happens. Just loads to black. I've changed settings in BIOS but still nothing. I take the laptop HD off and then my desktop HD works again.
 
Sounds like the laptop hdd is shot providing you have correctly setup the correct hdd as first boot device.
 
If I set laptop HD to main it goes into an endless cycle of start windows repair and nothing happens. So it's safe to say a new HD will fix my issue?
 
Can't do anything with the drive. Just that endless repair windows loop. I can put it into recovery it attempts to reinstall but again just hangs at windows screen. Also it's a Western Digital.
 
Do not keep trying to boot into it. Download hirens boot cd and boot to it, then load western digitals drive diagnostic and do a long test on the drive. Most likely its shot.

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip

Unzip that file and then use burning software to write the iso image to a cd and then boot to the cd.

Disconnect your main drive and only have the laptop drive connected when booting to the cd.
 
Ok, ran Hirens and did a long test. The HD has partitions on it. One with the recovery etc and the other with all the files which is not loading and corrupt etc. Is there any programs in Hirens where can I choose which partition to wipe?
 
Fire up PartedMagic (included with Hirens) and use GParted to delete the partition.
 
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