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Win7 Pro Giving Problems Booting on SSD
I swapped out my HD with a Samsung 860 Evo SSD. I used the migration software from Samsung. The first few times I booted my machine it worked well. Then I started getting problems booting. If I shut down or restart my machine, the only way Win7 will start is if I enter the bios and F10 out. Sometimes I have to do this a few times.
I am new to SSD's so I'm not sure how this is supposed to work. The migration software has created 2 partitions on the disk: "C" which is my Win7 operating system and "G" (which wasn't there/didn't show up on the original HD and is very small). The G partition contains a file named "bootmgr", a folder "BOOT", that contains several language folders. In the US folder are files "bootmgr.exe.mui" and "memtest.exe.mui" . In the BOOT folder there are files named "BCD", "bootstat.dat" , "memtest.exe" and .log files.
In Computer Management:
G partition is marked "Healthy (System, Active, Primary partition)
C partition is marked "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary partition) but NOT active
I was just going to mark "C" as active, but I didn't want to attempt this without asking for expert advice in case it totally screws everything up and I brick my system. So, suggestions how to proceed so this thing will boot normally ?