Windows 10: Fully wiped hard drive still trying to boot windows.

Discus and support Fully wiped hard drive still trying to boot windows. in Windows 10 Customization to solve the problem; I recently wiped a 1 tb laptop hard drive. In Windows Disk Management it shows that all partitions are 100% free, when I search through the hard drive... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Customization' started by GabeBlackwell, Jul 27, 2020.

  1. GABEBLACKWELL
    GabeBlackwell Win User

    Fully wiped hard drive still trying to boot windows.


    I recently wiped a 1 tb laptop hard drive. In Windows Disk Management it shows that all partitions are 100% free, when I search through the hard drive no files are shown either. I installed the drive back into my laptop and I expected it to boot to bios but instead it tried to boot windows and loaded the boot/startup/windows manager thingamajig. The laptop only has 1 drive which is the one that I wiped, so I don't understand how it could be booting from windows.

    :)
     
    GabeBlackwell, Jul 27, 2020
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  2. FLORIDAJERSEYGUY
    floridajerseyguy Win User

    How to wipe a hard drive

    modder I already used kill-disk. The deletion is done, I need to reinstall everything.
     
    floridajerseyguy, Jul 27, 2020
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  3. 2WICKED
    2wicked Win User
    2wicked, Jul 27, 2020
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  4. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User

    Fully wiped hard drive still trying to boot windows.

    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, Jul 27, 2020
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