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09-24-2009, 06:55 PM
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Computer booting from wrong hard-drive
Hey guys, A while ago I installed the windows 7 RC and most recently Windows 7 Pro from MSDNAA and I'm having a weird problem. I have two hard drives, one is a 500GB Western Digital caviar Black which is the drive with windows installed on it. The other is an older Western Digital Caviar 320GB that I use for storage. I noticed that when I was starting up the computer, the boot priority is
1. WD32000 - Storage Drive 2. WD5001 - System drive. This is how it's been and it's been working. I thought that this is incorrect so I swapped it so my supposed windows drive is at the top of the boot priority. Lo and behold when I try and log in I get the message, "Reboot and select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key." From what I know the proper boot device should be the 500gb drive with windows 7 installed. I'm only worried because I plan to replace the storage drive with another HD but can't at the moment until I find a way for it to boot from the proper device. Is there a way to do this through windows 7 without doing a reformat or anything (which I already did to install windows) |
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09-24-2009, 08:48 PM
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I had the same problem recently when I accidentally left two drives plugged in, both of which had an OS installed. I cured the problem by resetting the bios by pulling the battery that keeps its flash memory. I then put the battery back in its slot and booted the computer with only the hard drive I want to boot from plugged in to the SATA port. The BIOS seemed to have learned which HD to boot the OS from. It worked for me at least.
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09-24-2009, 11:10 PM
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Your boot loader may be on the storage drive.
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09-25-2009, 05:09 AM
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is there a way to restore it if I do remove my hard drive
Edit, I used bcdedit to list the entries and found that I have the bootloader on the proper C drive, but on the F drive there is a Boot Manager. Do I need that on the C drive as well? Last edited by indigo0086; 09-25-2009 at 05:51 AM. |
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09-25-2009, 09:59 AM
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I stand corrected. The boot manager is on the storage drive.
I'm going to move this to the Windows 7 forum. |
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09-29-2009, 06:50 AM
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still floored. Tried to do somethiing I found online. My boot manager appears on drive c, but it still won't boot from it.
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09-29-2009, 11:28 AM
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What about the command 'fxmbr'. I don't rember how it worked exactly but it was the easiest to use for XP. Don't know if it would work for 7 or not. Worth a try, maybe?
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