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Problem converting two bootable drives to one
A few months ago I swapped out one of my drives for a new SSD and installed Windows 7 on it, installed all programs, configured everything, and gradually moved data over while still using the old one to get work done during the transition.
I'm at the point I'd like to wipe out the old drive and just use it for data; however, my PC seems to need that one to boot. I tried removing the drive and booting from a system repair disc, running the repair several times, to no avail.
In Disk Management, the one I don't want is showing as Disk 1: System, Active, Primary Partition; and the SSD I want to be booting off of is Disk 0: Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Logical Drive. There are no partitions.
Is there a way to fix this without having to completely reinstall or lose data/programs?
What would happen if I upgraded to Windows 10, would I still have the same issue (or worse)?