windows 10 install and boot issues

Question

Currently running 7 on my desktop unit. I have the 6 sata drives on the motherboard and an additional 8 sata drives on a sata card, for a total of 14 drives.

Removed all of the drives except for a brand new SSD drive, booted on the win 10 usb install drive, installed 10 with no issues. Booted 3 or 4 times from that drive with no problems. Left that as my bios boot drive, added in the disconnected sata drives, and tried to boot. 10 refused to load so I took everything off again, tried to boot for the 10 SSD and it refused to do so,

Reinstalled 10 again from the USB drive, booted several times with no problems. Again, added in the other drives and went to boot, and it failed.

I have repeated this sequence maybe 6 times, all working find with just the 10 SSD and all always failing when I add the other drives back in again. Why anything would in essence, modify the SSD to not boot, is most strange.

So much happening in the MS world, outlook support for 7 stopping in mid September, etc etc... I need to get 10 running but I clearly need my other drives accessible as well.

Any suggestions? Thanks kindly in advance. :)

Gary

Answer 1

"We are not sure what happened... etc..." "Error code 0x80072F8F - 0x20000"

The Media Creation Tool requires TLS 1.2 enabled. Install KB3140245 as well as EasyFix 51044.

https://support.microsoft.com/help/3140245

Answer 2

Well, talk about frustrating :)

So I booted on the 10 ssd, no other drives installed... been a while so naturally windows update had many things to put in. Got all of that done, no other updates to install... booted again with 10, no issues came up.

Shut everything down, added in the 5 other mother board sata drives, accidentally booted into 7. Checked all of the drives and everything looked good. Reset the BIOS to only use the 10 sata drive to boot... none of the other sata card drives were connected.

The system refused to boot :( :( So at least it would appear that the LSI Corp card (which remained plugged into the motherboard) was not causing any issues.

Shut every thing down, booted into 7, ran diskpart to removed all of the partitions on the win10 ssd, full drive was empty. Did a standard format on it, then shut the system down again, removed the other 5 drives, inserted the USB win 10 install, tried to install it again and got nowhere.

Shut everything down again, still just the 10 ssd in, freshly formatted. Put the win10 USB drive back in, tried to boot from that and it would not do it. Checked the USB drive and it was empty!! Rolls eyes. Booted back into 7 again (just the 5 drives installed, win10 ssd was left out).. Went to the MS site and grabbed a fresh copy of the media creation tool so I could re-install the win 10 install onto the USB drive... ran it.. and yeah... pfft...

"We are not sure what happened... etc..." "Error code 0x80072F8F - 0x20000"

So now I am totally stuck. Cant install 10 install onto the USB drive, no OS on the 10 boot drive... searched the net, downloaded the easyfix program, ran that.. now installing the 10 install to the usb drive..

Once thats done, I will install 10 again, and then get all the updates, and start adding in the 5 motherboard sata drives one at a time and see what happens..

*sigh

Gary

Answer 3

Hello，Park Avenue1

Thank you for your reply and rest assured that I will be here waiting to hear back from you.

Best Regards，

Rota|Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Answer 4

Thanks for the response. On my "last round" of putting 10 into the new SSD and booting several times with it, I did not add it back into the system.

I will try putting the 10 boot back in stand alone, make sure it will function properly, and then add in the rest of the motherboard drives one by one and see what happens. If that all passes, then I will start to add in the sata card drives in the same manner...

This will take me a few days, I'll let you know the results.

Gary

Answer 5

Hello，Park Avenue1

Thank you for posting in the Microsoft community.

According to your description, it may be because you did not correctly read other hard disk data when reinstalling Windows 10, and other hard disks still have system data, which caused boot data conflicts after insertion.

We recommend that you reinstall Windows 10 on the SSD alone after connecting the six onboard SATA drives, and then install the other eight SATA drives back one by one. According to experience, there should be no conflict problem after you remove the disk with Windows system. You can try it first. We are happy to discuss your problem with you.

After you refer to the above steps, you can share some information in this thread and I will answer your questions further. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!

Best Regards，

Rota|Microsoft Community Support Specialist