Windows 10: Windows 11 Can't Find Boot Drive

Discus and support Windows 11 Can't Find Boot Drive in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; My PC was working fine until today when I turned it on. I have three internal drives connected and two are bootable and I have two external nonbootable... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by richardryals, Jun 5, 2022.

  1. RICHARDRYALS
    richardryals Win User

    Windows 11 Can't Find Boot Drive


    My PC was working fine until today when I turned it on. I have three internal drives connected and two are bootable and I have two external nonbootable drives connected. This is the message I'm receiving on startup:Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected booty device and press a key.

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    richardryals, Jun 5, 2022
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  2. 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, Jun 5, 2022
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  3. 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, Jun 5, 2022
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  4. LITTLE CAT
    little cat Win User

    Windows 11 Can't Find Boot Drive

    little cat, Jun 5, 2022
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