windows keep boosting up from portable drive

thank you for your reply. here is the screenshot.

as far as the boot order, should I move legacy to be the first (though I still don't get how the system chooses the portable drive first)?

whs said:

Right now you are booting from the Sandisk Cruzer.

really? that is my thumb drive. But it boosts fine even with the thumb drive plugged in

Layback Bear said:

What is CH-11 (I)?
What data is on CH-11 (I)?

The reason I ask is because it is flagged Active.

That's the portable drive that my pc is trying to boost from. I saved some acronis backup file in there. I also saved the c folder of my old windows vista pc in case i need anything from it. But I basically just copied those things into the portable drive. They are in their own folders and not hanging outside all over the root directory. I didn't do any special formatting to the portable drive either. It is just storage

thank you so much! that seems to solve the issue. this is how I do as as copy and paste from google How To: Mark Partition As Inactive Open up a command prompt and type DISKPART. Type LIST DISK. Type SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the old Win98 drive) Type LIST PARTITION. Type SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the active partition you wish to make inactive) Type INACTIVE. Type EXIT to exit DISKPART. Layback Bear, You have been very helpful. . I want to swap out my hard drive for ssd so I will probably make another post inquiring about clean installing windows 7. In the mean time thanks and repped!