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Trouble booting automatically after SSD swap-over
Hello all,
I had an SSD that was 120 gig. I recently bought a larger 240 gig samsung SSD since I got a free copy of far cry 3 and my old SSD was nearly full.
I used the program that came with the samsung drive to swap the data over. It had all the appropriate settings listed, and it seemed pretty straight forward. I attached the new SSD drive and had all the space on it listed as "unalocated" as the Samsung Wizard explained. I copied over the two partitions on the old drive over to the new Samsung. I then removed the old 120 gig drive and tried to boot with the new Samsung and the 1TB data drive that I had attached all along.
I shut down, removed the 120 gig drive and moved the 240 over to the same sata cable that the 120 was on. When I tried to boot, it failed. A screen came up that offered to automatically repair the install, but it was unable.
It looked like it would boot into this same error over and over. I used the boot manager thing on my mobo using the f8 key. I chose the Samsung SSD from the list and it offered up 3 choices.
1. Windows 7 premium
2. Windows 7 premium (recovered)
3. Windows 7 premium (recovered)
If I choose option 1, it repeats the same "unable to repair so lets reboot...."
If I choose option 2, the computer boots normally, it looks exactly like before, and all is good. Till I reboot.
So.... I don't know where the 3 installs that its offers as options. I need a way to set it to always boot to the
Windows 7 premium (recovered) install.
How can I do this ? What happend to my install ?