Windows 10: Forcing a boot drive to boot

Discus and support Forcing a boot drive to boot in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I recently had problems with my DELL Alienware Aurora R7. Running Windows 10 Pro.I took it to the local computer shop It is a good shop owned by a... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by IanCockerill, Oct 14, 2022.

  1. IANCOCKERILL
    IanCockerill Win User

    Forcing a boot drive to boot


    I recently had problems with my DELL Alienware Aurora R7. Running Windows 10 Pro.I took it to the local computer shop It is a good shop owned by a friend of my son. They found that the M.2 SSD had given up. They got it all working again with a new SSD but used a new install of Windows 11 Home.When I got the computer home again I tried to recover my old ,Windows 10, system by booting from a Macrium Reflect 8 recovery USB and overwriting my new SSD with a clone of my old SSD. Reflect would NOT recover the system as it claimed that the new SSD was too small. Both SSDs are nominally 500GB but th

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    IanCockerill, Oct 14, 2022
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  2. BTARUNR
    btarunr Win User

    Can't boot from DVD drive

    Is your controller in RAID/AHCI modes? If so, the DVD drive will be listed as a separate device in the list of available boot devices, not as "CDROM". Remember that when setting boot device priority. Otherwise, read the manual to see which hotkey during POST brings up the boot menu that lets you select which device to boot from. Even here, the drive will be listed separately, and not as "CDROM".
     
    btarunr, Oct 14, 2022
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  3. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User
    Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

    Please move if this is in the wrong place.

    I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

    If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

    My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
    I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.
     
    speedy11131, Oct 14, 2022
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  4. CARING1
    Caring1 Win User

    Forcing a boot drive to boot

    Windows Booting beep!!

    Check the boot order in the BIOS also, it might not have the hard drive as primary in the boot list.
     
    Caring1, Oct 14, 2022
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