windows keep boosting up from portable drive

[victrelis]

Hi, I have a pc running windows 7 pro 64 bit. I am wondering why everytime I turn it on with my portable drive plugged in, it would attempt to boost from that drive and give me an error. I have checked the boost order and did not see anything strange in the setting. This is a picture that I took (ADATA CH11 is the portable drive in question- there are other thumb drives plugged in too but they do not cause any problems).

http://postimg.org/image/5md2cngk3/

can someone take a look at this for me? Many thanks!

PS: inside that portable drive I copied the C drive of my old vista computer and put it in a folder- I do not think it causes the issue but just in case...

 

[Layback Bear]

Double check you boot order.

Please complete this tutorial by Golden.

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

 

[victrelis]

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]

Right now you are booting from the Sandisk Cruzer.

 

[Layback Bear]

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

The reason I ask is because it is flagged Active.

 

[victrelis]

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

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

 

[Layback Bear]

Remove the Active flag from the "I" partition.

 

[victrelis]

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!

 

[Layback Bear]

Your very welcome. That is why we are here; to help and learn.