Ah sorry, missed that bit. If there's no windows then there's no way to boot into windows safe mode, period. Gotta have the BIOS/EUFI identify the disk.There is no Windows menu because I can't get into Windows at all.
Ah sorry, missed that bit. If there's no windows then there's no way to boot into windows safe mode, period. Gotta have the BIOS/EUFI identify the disk.There is no Windows menu because I can't get into Windows at all.
There's a lot of attempts to help the situation, which almost all require the disk itself to be detected in the BIOS.
Insert the Windows disk and reboot and push any key to boot from disk when you get a message. Make choice to repair Windows OS and see what it says.
Hi - thanks for that - initially the SSD was not detected by the BIOS - but turns out it was my fault - I had initialised the SSD as GPT (which I guess would have worked on a newer laptop). When I re-initialised it as MBT the BIOS recognised it and after a few hiccups all was good.
You did it incorrectly. You need to wipe disk and install W10 on the G550.
Anyway there is a thread where someone had a similar issue with their G550..
Do you have Win 7 disk to try and see if it is recognized once the OS is installed?.
You might still be able to repair the OS (MBR). In bios select the CD drive to boot first and the SSD second in boot order. Then reboot machine with Win 7 in the CD drive ... does it read the CD drive with Win 7? If so then you can get to the Win 7 repair selection.I have Win7 disc, I will install W7 to see if I can't get around MBR and GPT thingy first.
I've just run clean and convert MBR commands again in diskpart, then initialized and formatted the drive. Nothing changed, BIOS doesn't recognize it, and W7 setup can't see the SSD both via SATA and USB connections.
Before that, I did what you wrote pharma and same thing, message "Startup repair cannot repair your computer automatically" appears, because it doesn't recognise any OS on the SSD.
I don't think there is anything else I can try.
Wait, I'm confused. Diskpart detected it in your laptop or you were using a different computer to use diskpart and initialize as MBR?
btw have you tried unplugging everything as much as possible? So unplug odd, hdd (if any), wifi card. Just have the ssd plugged.
sorry, i meant to use gparted on another computer where the SSD is detected, then try to re initialize it as GPT.Btw, here's the GParted in action. As you can see, no partitions detected other than those on the thumb drive.
https://i.ibb.co/Vgd9rsn/Gparted.jpg
But this one works in the the other machines, so the problem is not with the drive but with this specific laptop. Yes, I can get a new one, both the SSD and/or a laptop, but it's the principles that matter as well.
sorry, i meant to use gparted on another computer where the SSD is detected, then try to re initialize it as GPT.