Boot on Wrong Drive

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aerouta

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Well I am not sure what is going on but I will try to explain.

I have installed EasyBCD2.2 to attempt to fix some boot issues I am having with Win7. I just recently installed Win7 on my SSD(C: drive). However during the install I had another HDD, lets call it (HDD3 currently G:smile: installed on the computer. Once I pulled out HDD3 I started having boot problems(BOOTMBR missing). After going through several of the CMD boot recovery processes with no luck, I re-installed HDD3. That is when I noticed that the boot record for Win7 is on HDD3 instead of the SSD. However, I have to select the boot drive manually (F12) for it to find the boot record.

I hoped EAsyBCD would solve this issue however, after using EasyBCD to create another boot entry on the SSD I still have to manually select the boot drive, and the strange part is that I still have to select HDD3 to boot from the newly created entry which EAsyBCD is showing on the SSD?? I do not understand why this could be happening.

I noticed that the Boot Drive is showing as G:\ in EasyBCD. How do I change this to C:\

I have included a screen shot of EasyBCD and my Disk Management settings

Any thoughts??
 

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You'll have to refer to @Terry60's post: Disk Management Flags (multilingual - please add your language)

Microsoft anachronism to repurposed the meaning of the word 'boot' seven different ways. It can mean 'boot' as in "this is my boot drive and it has all my bootladers and bootloader configuration files, and will be called by the BIOS on system startup to boot my PC," or, somehow, it can instead mean it "this is the partition Windows is booted (read: loaded) from."
 
In Disk Management, the flags have the following meanings


"boot" = "this is the system you're running"
"system" = "this is where I found the boot files for the currently running system"
"active" (on the first HDD in the BIOS boot sequence) = "this is where I started the search for the boot files"
"active" (on subsequent HDDs in the BIOS boot sequence) ="this is where I will look if I don't find something in the MBR on the first HDD"

(there is no boot or system flag in the physical sense. Only "active" actually exists, in the MBR partition table as a 1 bit entry.
The other "flags" are merely Disk Management reporting facts to you.
This causes a great deal of confusion, as the MBR "active" bit is called "boot" or "bootflag" in Linux and some partition managers.
The above list is what MS Disk Management means, not necessarily bearing any resemblance to the rest of the universe.)
 
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