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Windows Not Booting From Correct Drive
Hey everyone! Long time listener first time caller, I have a quick question about booting from a new drive.
I just installed an SSD with the intention of copying my system files over from my old standard HD and using the new one exclusively to boot off of (using this old guide) and despite a couple of hiccups the whole process has gone smoothly. Now I'm at the stage where everything is copied to the new hard drive, but when I go into the BIOS and change the boot order the computer still wants to boot from the old drive. So basically my question is: is this normal?
When I start up normally I can see the new drive (240GB) and the old drive (2TB), but it appears that Windows is running off of the old drive, which is still reading as the C: drive. Furthermore, when I either unplug the old drive or set the BIOS to only boot from the new drive, I get a "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" message upon startup. I'm pretty sure it should change the new drive to the C: drive once I format my old drive, and I have everything backed up in multiple places so I shouldn't be too worried, but I just want to be extra paranoid about my data and make sure nothing catastrophic happens before I do the any formatting. Any help or clarification would be appreciated, thanks in advance!