Dual boot screen even though I only have one OS installed

[senjougahara]

Hey! Today I did a clean win7 install some hours ago but I had to change some settings to disable UEFI boot on the bios or something similar I set the main boot thingy to DVD-RAM instead of DVD-RAM UEFI, so as to boot from the cd and create a master boot record.

Everything went fine and I don't know if this is related to what I just mentioned but when I boot up my PC I get to the dual boot screen where it lets you choose what OS you want to use. I get two options Windows 7 (the one I installed) and Windows 8.1 which I never had lol, I haven't picked Win8.1 on the menu yet because I'm afraid something terrible might happen and I might lose all my data (I got 2 HDDs both are MBR, in one I got all my important stuff and the other one is for the OS). Is there a reason why that happens and a way to disable it? Thanks in advance. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Gaming 3.

 

[Ranger4]

Could you please supply a screen shot of Disc Management, including everything on that screen. The Forum link below shows you how to do that & included in this link is a link on how to do a screen shot if you need it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[senjougahara]

Hey, thank you for your reply. Here it is:

 

[senjougahara]

Alright I had it fixed today! It was one search away but I swear I always search it's just that I did this at like 3AM and was halfway dead so the words I inputted on the google search weren't the right ones apparently. What you have to do is:

Open msconfig, go to the bootloader tab, and delete the OS that is no longer on your system, save, exit (you may have to restart).

I don't know what caused it but this fixed it! Thanks a lot for your answer though!

 

[Ranger4]

Glad to hear you have it fixed & thanks for getting back.

 

[senjougahara]

You are welcome

 

[AddRAM]

Why is H marked Active and has the system files on it ???

You installed windows with 2 drives plugged in didn`t you ??

Is H just a data storage drive ?

If so, it`s wrong.

 

[senjougahara]

Why is H marked Active and has the system files on it ???

You installed windows with 2 drives plugged in didn`t you ??

Is H just a data storage drive ?

If so, it`s wrong.

Hey, thanks for your reply. I got your message.

The system files are on C:/. I've kept H untouched through various formats and never had any issues (I mainly keep movies, shows and some games backups in there).

And yeah I installed Windows on my SSD (C:/) but didn't alter the other one in any way!. I've also seen this problem is quite common among users according to google, but I don't know, why do you say it's wrong?

 

[AddRAM]

If that is your current layout of disk management, then it`s wrong, your system files are not on C, and C is not marked active.

H should not have the system files on it and it should not be marked active.

If you ever format H, windows would not boot.

If you have a different more current picture of DM, then please post it.

C should look like this.

 

[senjougahara]

If that is your current layout of disk management, then it`s wrong, your system files are not on C, and C is not marked active.

H should not have the system files on it and it should not be marked active.

If you ever format H, windows would not boot.

If you have a different more current picture of DM, then please post it.

C should look like this.

I see, how can I prevent this from happening next time I install windows? in the partition screen I had Disk 0 (SSD) and Disk 1 (H). I chose Disk 0 (and formatted it) but for some reason it says System on H. Thanks for the warning, i don't think I'll format H right now but you never know . I've never formatted H (I bought this computer exactly 1 year and 1 month ago) but never installed any OS's on it either. Every OS I've installed was on my SSD

 

[AddRAM]

I said how above. Whenever you install windows, you unplug any other hard drives connected to the motherboard, just disconnect the power cable.

If you wanted to fix it you unplug disk 1, then mark C Active, then run startup repair until disk 0 boots on it`s own.

Then you hook disk 1 back up, and mark H inactive with Disk Management or your install disc and Diskpart.

It`s better to fix it asap, b4 something happens to H.

 

[senjougahara]

I said how above. Whenever you install windows, you unplug any other hard drives connected to the motherboard, just disconnect the power cable.

Ahhh well, seems like a bit of trouble given my overall lack of knowledge regarding computers but I think when the time comes I'll look into it. Now that I think of it it's possible that I never knew of this because it's my first time having 2 hard drives running at the same time Thank you for your time

 

[AddRAM]

I will post the tutorials, I want you to read them 10 times so you know how to do it LOL

Disk 0 can be marked Active 3 possible ways, with Disk Management (maybe) just right click on disk 0 and there will be a drop down menu, one of the options will be set Active.

Partition Wizard will do it in the same manner.

And it can also be done with Diskpart, which is the most complicated for the novice, but still easy enough.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71432-partition-mark-active.html

Then you run startup repair (using your install disc) up to 3 separate times to write the system files to C (disk 0)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html

Bootable Partition Manger | MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Edition

 

[AddRAM]

You say you never had Windows 8 on this pc, but.......

1) Why was there a dual boot screen and 1 of the entries was Windows 8

2) How did disk 1 get marked Active and have the system files on it.

Those are rhetorical questions

Even if you had 2 hard drives setup like you do and you installed windows to disk 0, windows would never mark disk 1 Active.

Windows will always use the 1st available drive.

That`s why I`m real suspect as to how it got marked Active, wink wink nod nod

 

[senjougahara]

You say you never had Windows 8 on this pc, but.......

1) Why was there a dual boot screen and 1 of the entries was Windows 8

2) How did disk 1 get marked Active and have the system files on it.

Those are rhetorical questions

Even if you had 2 hard drives setup like you do and you installed windows to disk 0, windows would never mark disk 1 Active.

Windows will always use the 1st available drive.

That`s why I`m real suspect as to how it got marked Active, wink wink nod nod

Hey, thanks for the tutorials. I read and bookmarked them

I know these are rhetorical questions but I don't know what you are getting at so I'm gonna answer them:

1) I don't really know about this one, that's why I was surprised. When I bought my computer I installed my Win7 disk (It already had Win7 installed but it wasn't activated, had a lot of programs I don't use and it wasn't in English (it was in my countries language, but I rather use it in english in case there are problems or I have to look something up) so I decided to do a clean install. It's possible that Win8 was installed before I got hold of my computer?

2) I don't know that either, as I said before I've never installed an OS in my HDD nor would I mark it as active for no reason. Maybe it has to do with me meddling with the BIOS settings like I said in the first post, I changed the boot options so as to avoid UEFI DVD boot and place it as a fourth boot option.

If you are implying something please do say it because I'm clueless lol

 

[AddRAM]

a Rhetorical question is a question asked of someone for them to ponder in their own mind, but you got the picture and even answered all the questions that needed to be answered in the 1st place, now we know why your computer is in the state it`s in. You can leave it like it as and may never have a problem, but when you`re ready to correct it, come back and we`ll be glad to help you.


"If you are implying something please do say it because I'm clueless lol"

I don`t imply, I spell it out :sarc:

 

[senjougahara]

Alright man, thanks. I guess I'm gonna have to sort it out sooner or later yeah