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Boot and System installed on two different drives
Hi
I had a setup running W7 with an SSD(M4) and HDD(WD). I had an earlier installation of windows on the HDD, but the new installation of windows 7 has worked flawlessly, until now.
I invested in an EVO 840 and decided that I wanted to install W8.1 on it, and due to some problems with the Sata-ports on my MB I had to unplug my HDD. Which was fine, but I wasn't able to boot my W7(installed on the M4) without the HDD being present. I didn't take notice of that and booted from my USB and installed W8.1 on the Samsung.
Now it's messed up. If I plug in both of the SSDs they both boot windows 8.1. The samsung should boot windows 8.1 and it is, but when I try to boot W7 from my other SSD it opens with the OS installed on the Samsung SSD. If I unplug the samsung the old SSD won't boot. The same goes if I plug in the HDD and the old SSD. It only "wants" to boot windows 8.1 off of the new SSD.
Can anyone shed some light on the matter? It's quite anoying and I've been trying to fix it for the past 4 hours, without luck. I'd like to keep my old windows 7 installation, and it's only as a last resort I'd be willing to reformat that drive. The W8.1 on the other hand, it's only a matter of the installation time!
In advance thanks!
I have included an image of my disk management, please note how the BOOT and SYSTEM sector are installed on different drives.
EDIT:
After a reboot the old SSD doesn't show up in Windows Explorer...