Windows 10: After Partition was updated having problems with Booting

Let me start by saying I am not sure that this is the correct Forum to post this problem in.

Some background: I upgraded my Windows 7 Laptop to Windows 10 back in August 2015. Other than some minor issues/annoyances, it has worked reasonably well. Earlier this year I created another Partition and installed to Windows 7 which was then upgraded to Windows 10. More reecently I created a third Partition and formatted it (NTFS). Nothing was installed in that third Partition.

A few days ago, I booted into the second Partition and allowwed it to install various updates including the latest Windows 10. I let the updates complete unattended. Booted back intop the second Partition to let the updates complete. I then shutdown and powered back up to Boot from my first Partition. There was no choice of what Partition to Boot from, it simply booted into the second Partition.

This is what I have done so far.

I have deleted the third Partition (now unallocated).

Having noticed that my first Partition had a boot path of *:/ I have renamed the drives so I now have a C Drive and a D Drive (first and second Pertitions respectively).

I have (some how) managed to get back to seeing an option of what Partition to Boot from. From the first Partition I can see from using BCDedit that thre is something awry with the Partition. First, there is only one entry shown and ther is something in there that references the D Drive (second Partition). Note that I have not used BCDedit to edit anything.

I would appreciate some help with resolving this problem. Thenk you.

Norman

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Feature update to Windows 10, version 1607 - Error 0x800703ed

In my case, I have a boot manager partition that is the Active / Startable partition. The BIOS boots the boot manager. From the boot manager, I pick Windows. That setup prevents some Microsoft updates from working. The workaround is to make the Windows
partition (most likely, C, be the Active / Startable partition. Then the updates are applied with no problems. Once the updates are applied, I made the boot manager the Active / Startable partition and everything is OK.

 

Messy GRUB after upgrading to windows 10

Thanks for your reply. Apart from the partition reserved for ubuntu, I have two other partitions related to windows now. The first partition is a partition which contains the operating system windows 10. Inside that partition I have a boot folder which is
not working. If I boot from that partition I get a message problem about signature. (Note that I could boot using that partition when I was on windows 7). This is where the problem is.

The second partition is a very simple partition which contains only boot folder for the same windows 7. I can use this one to boot the windows 10 system located in the previous partition. (I could also use this when I was on windows 7).

So what I don't understand is why the upgrade to windows 10 updated the boot folder from a separate partition but did not update the boot folder from the same partition as the operating system.