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Migrated Win 7 to SSD. Now has dual Win 7 boot option
A few months ago I used Paragon migrate OS to SSD 4.0 to clone my 480gb HDD (partitioned C: OS and D: data) to a 240gb ssd (just C: OS). This is a somewhat older Asus laptop with a i5 processor.
Everything worked fine except that windows boot manager has 2 versions of windows 7. Its not a big deal and I more or less ignored it. I should note that selecting either boot option loads Win7 with no problems. After a bit of time passed I started getting windows popups asking me to re-authenticate windows, which I did using the phone system. But it won't work. Windows appears to accept the key, but within an hour I get another popup saying that my version of windows needs to be authenticated. I'm assuming these two things are related (i.e. windows recognizes 2 copies of windows running the same product key).
I've tried searching the forum for answers with no luck and any help would be appreciated. I'm certainly no pro at this and I'm guessing I just don't know the correct terms to use in my searches...
I guess to fully state my questions:
How do I identify and remove the incorrect windows 7 option in the boot manager?
Could this be causing my re-authentication problem?
Thanks!