Windows trying to boot off the wrong drive.

shauncr91 · 28 Sep 2011 at 21:58

Today I replaced my old HDD for a new SSD. I formatted the new drive and installed Windows 7.

When I boot up I get "Drive error, please insert CD and press any key" (Or something to that effect). I put my CD in and do as it says and it continues to boot as normal.

I've checked in Disk Management and it's showing my new SSD as "Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition". But it's also showing one of my secondary storage drives as "System, Active, Primary Partition", and so I can only assume Windows is trying to boot from this drive instead of my SSD.

Without formatting the second drive, how can I make it so it just sits there as a normal drive and doesn't make the PC think it's a boot drive?

Ta

shauncr91 · 28 Sep 2011 at 22:19

It's set to boot off HDD first then CD second, same as it was before I changed drives.

shauncr91 · 28 Sep 2011 at 22:36

The drive it's wrongly detecting has never had windows on it, it's simply a 1TB drive for storing files and large applications. The drive which had Windows on before isn't even in the PC anymore :/

But yes, the drive was still connected, along with 2 others but those are working fine

shauncr91 · 29 Sep 2011 at 11:36

BloodyL do you have a guide for doing that? I think I've done it correctly but I'm still getting the problem

shauncr91 · 30 Sep 2011 at 18:08

Thanks for all the help guys, unfortunately none of the things mentioned seemed to work so I had to reformat windows with all drives disconnectcted, this although awkward has fixed the problem