Booting to SSD shows black screen with green lines


  1. Posts : 6
    Windows 10
       #1

    Booting to SSD shows black screen with green lines


    Hello everyone,

    I have searched the entire internet for something similar to this problem and haven't found anything, So I decided to post here hoping you guys could help me debug this problem and help other people in the future.

    My system:
    2HDDs 500gb 2.5"
    i7-4790
    16gb RAM

    So I recently bought (1 week ago) an SSD from Sandisk, model SSD PLUS 120GB, the first thing I tried to do was clone my windows drive to the SSD but that didn't work, it showed a black screen as the one in the picture I am attaching.

    I gave up cloning and decided to install fresh, but since I didnt have any flashdrive lying aroud I made a bootable partition in one of my HDD and transfered windows installer there.

    I deleted all SSD partitions and let windows installer format a new drive and install there, installation went fine but the same black screen shows up when I boot to SSD, I inserted this SSD on another computer and the same result, black screen.

    The SSD is apparently working since I can read/write data on it.

    I am being able to boot into the windows in my SSD because my windows installer on the other drive recognizes that I have a windows 10 installed somewhere and gives me the option to boot there. But if I remove the drive that has the windows installer I get stuck in the black screen.

    Anyone has ever seen this? Do you have any suggestion of what I should do? Is this drive broken?

    Thanks in Advance
    Regards,

    Hugo

    Booting to SSD shows black screen with green lines-47b61023-fa8e-4bb6-89b8-eda805f3cdc8.jpg

    Update: I have never performed this Sanitization process in my SSD, I am also attaching a new picture showing How I am being able to boot into win10. After the bios tries to boot from ssd a couple of times it gives up and moves to the next drive, then this screen shows up:
    Booting to SSD shows black screen with green lines-697730d0-34fd-4e6f-bc6d-5d903b26ac29.jpg
    I know im booting from SSD when I choose Windows 10 because I dont have any other OS installed and the speed is lightning quick.
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  2. Posts : 18,432
    Windows 11 Pro
       #2

    The problem is because your boot files got written to the HDD that you booted the computer from to install Windows 10. You can either create a FAT32 EFI System Partition on the SSD and write the boot files to it using the bcdboot command - or bite the bullet, purchase a USB flash drive to create a Windows 10 installer and use that to install Windows 10 with - highly recommended that you disconnect the second Hard Drive when you install Windows 10 to the SSD.
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  3. Posts : 6
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    NavyLCDR said:
    The problem is because your boot files got written to the HDD that you booted the computer from to install Windows 10. You can either create a FAT32 EFI System Partition on the SSD and write the boot files to it using the bcdboot command - or bite the bullet, purchase a USB flash drive to create a Windows 10 installer and use that to install Windows 10 with - highly recommended that you disconnect the second Hard Drive when you install Windows 10 to the SSD.
    Thank for your reply, I was just doing exactly that and problem solved.

    Got a new flash drive, disconnected everything but the SSD and installed windows clean.
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