Saturday, May 17, 2014

Installing SSD on new windows Machine and unlocking a locked windows 8 drive


1) Had to enable legacy option for hard drives/usb devices in bios
2) Had to disable bios checking of boot files in bios
3) Had to use this to unlock the drive:
Codes:

stpe 1:type
bootrec /fixmbr

step 2:
bootrec /fixboot

step 3:
bootrec /RebuildBcd

after thet press
 Y

eg Screenshot:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2klpWppQXGNMkYHGNmsw44u2H83BT7ReSxQKId5hr0fH9Af3twkEPIw_y9ZP6PwLhzZRQ0SpLJiprO649rHOWHlhT4uBS5q_8py-7f_2Qns0lBLsTyfDkM5InJVL0igu9zluv7NCaXZCF/s1600/drv_unlock3.JPG

4) Booted into windows 8 install disk, used advanced options to perform automatic repair.

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