Booting from the wrong drive?

Question

I recently got an SSD to be used as a boot drive for my laptop with the intention of using the old 1TB HDD for storage, but when I start up my laptop, it keeps trying to boot with the old HDD?

I migrated the OS from the hard drive to the SSD and set it to boot first in the BIOS. After booting from the SSD, I formatted the hard drive and I figured that would be that. Now, however, whenever I start up my laptop I keep getting stuck in the automatic repair loop because, I assume, it's still trying to boot from the HDD even though there's nothing there anymore. I have to hit F12 on startup and manually select to boot from my SSD every time. 

If I remove the HDD and leave only the SSD inside, then everything works 100% fine. I couldjust leave out the hard drive entirely but I'd really prefer not to since I want the extra space. How can I get my system to stop trying to boot from the hard drive? Here's a screenshot of my disk management if that helps. 

Answer 1

Hi kvp21 from looking at the Disk Management window . . .

You need the SSD to show up a Disk 0 and the HDD to show up as Disk 1

Move the SATA data cables around on your Motherboard - connect the SSD to SATA 1 and the HDD to SATA 2

Also, even though you formatted the old HDD, you still have a UEFI partition remaining on the Data Drive - that needs to be removed!

Answer 2

Boot into the recovery environment then try all of the following:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/fix-windows-10...