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Default Boot Device Problem

Anonymous
2021-11-18T07:38:57+00:00

I bought a new SSD drive along with my old HHD.

I moved windows to the new SSD and from the BIOS I changed the Boot device to the SSD. The problem is when I restart the PC it runs the windows again on the HHD by default and I have to change the boot device manually every time I run the PC.

How can I set the SSD as a default boot device ? I already tried in the BIOS and the system configuration but nothing worked

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  1. Spigolo 135.3K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-11-18T14:21:45+00:00

    Hi Ghamdifa11

    EFI and Recovery partitions are still on the old disk.

    Procede as follow.

    Remove the old disk and start the system from a bootable installation support

    Chose Troubleshooting then Startup repair

    If it works connect the old disk and remove partition 1 and partition 4

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-11-18T13:53:25+00:00

    I also included a screenshot form the disk management . disk 0 is the HHD, I changed it from the OS boot manager to the SSD and saved the change but didn't work

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  3. Sumit D - IA 170.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-11-18T13:33:43+00:00

    Everything is perfect here. Can you also send a screenshot of current BIOS settings?

    Use your Phone's Camera to take pictures.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-11-18T09:33:51+00:00

    Right now the windows is running on the SSD. I already formatted the HHD after installing windows on the SSD so I don't thing there are still any files left.

    I have HP pavilion gaming desktop TG01-0xxx with x64 based and

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  5. Sumit D - IA 170.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-11-18T08:32:15+00:00

    Hi Gham,

    I am Sumit here to assist you with this question.

    Looks like the boot files are still on HDD.

    Press Windows+R keys on the keyboard, or Right-click Start on the taskbar, and choose Run.

    Type msconfig

    Press Enter.

    Go to Boot Tab, take a screenshot and post in the next reply.

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