Solved Boot problems from multi drive system

skcusime

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Firstly, let me explain my setup.
I have just installed a new 2TB hard drive, the plan being to test drive windows 10 on one partition of a triple boot with windows 7 & 8. There is a 4th partition named Data. Windows 7 & 8 are installed and both work (when I can get them to boot!). Windows 10 in an empty partition at present.
There are 2 other 1TB drives for data in the system.
Problem is, the 2 1TB data drives Disc 1 & 2, both have bootmgr on them but they should not have. It depends on how I cable the 3 drives as to what choices of operating system I get presented with.

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I'm writing this on a clean install of Windows 8.0, but as can be seen from the screenshot of EasyBCD, it shows Windows 8.1 as entry number one. This was on my old hard drive, now removed from the computer.

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How can I get just the main drive to be the one to boot (with a choice of operating system) regardless of which cable is plugged into which disk?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Hybrid
    CPU
    AMD FX-8350
    Motherboard
    MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640)
    Memory
    8 MBytes DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon R7 360 Series
    Sound Card
    AMD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG W2353
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 WD 1TB SSD
    1 WD 6GB HDD
    PSU
    Coolermaster G750M 80+ Bronze
    Case
    Coolermaster
    Cooling
    4 internal fans
    Keyboard
    Microsoft wired
    Mouse
    Microsoft wired
    Internet Speed
    50Mbps up
    Browser
    Chrome
    Antivirus
    Malwarebytes
    Other Info
    ODD - PLEXTOR PX-891SAF PLUS
I suppose some info might be in order. When you install an MBR configured system, the install will put the boot files on the drive listed as primary in the Bios. This is probably what happened when Disk 2 was made the System partition and it boots into Windows 8 on Disk 0.

Any active partition has the potential to be a System (boot Files) partition and able to boot your system if configured to do so.

The system will boot to the first active partition it comes to following the drive priority in the Bios. When you change the connections, you are effectively changing that order, but it is better to change it in the Bios.

You might want to set the current Disk 0 as first priority in the Bios and see where the System partition is. If it doesn't boot, set it back to its present configuration.

Have you made any changes using EasyBCD, and if so do you remember what they were?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Grown
    CPU
    i7 3770K
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z77 -v Pro, Z87-Expert
    Memory
    16 G
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GTX 680 Classified (2)
    Hard Drives
    Kingston SSD 240 GB
I made disks 1 & 2 inactive and that solved the problem. Now with only 1 active partition, the computer has to boot from there. I used EasyBCD to set the right options, but needed to boot from windows disc and run disc repair to completely solve it. Thanks
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Hybrid
    CPU
    AMD FX-8350
    Motherboard
    MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640)
    Memory
    8 MBytes DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon R7 360 Series
    Sound Card
    AMD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG W2353
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 WD 1TB SSD
    1 WD 6GB HDD
    PSU
    Coolermaster G750M 80+ Bronze
    Case
    Coolermaster
    Cooling
    4 internal fans
    Keyboard
    Microsoft wired
    Mouse
    Microsoft wired
    Internet Speed
    50Mbps up
    Browser
    Chrome
    Antivirus
    Malwarebytes
    Other Info
    ODD - PLEXTOR PX-891SAF PLUS
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