I have three hard drives: Primary, which has my Win8.1 install; Secondary, which has my Win7 install that I use on occasion; and Tertiary, which has all my Program Files for my Win8.1 install (Primary is a SSD) as well as extra room for storage. My original Tertiary drive was showing signs of failure in its SMART stats, so I replaced it with a new one. However, when I go to boot up, it no longer boots to Primary (Win8.1) but will only boot to Secondary (Win7). Before I replaced Tertiary, my system would boot to Primary every time, unless I changed the boot order in the BIOS if I wanted to boot up Win7.
I double-checked the boot order in the BIOS, and I've got the Primary drive set as the first drive to boot to; I even go to the Boot Menu when I'm starting up and select that drive, but it still boots to Secondary. All I did was a straight-up swap from the old Tertiary to the new one; same cables, same SATA ports, same everything. How can I get it to boot to Primary (Win8.1) again?
I double-checked the boot order in the BIOS, and I've got the Primary drive set as the first drive to boot to; I even go to the Boot Menu when I'm starting up and select that drive, but it still boots to Secondary. All I did was a straight-up swap from the old Tertiary to the new one; same cables, same SATA ports, same everything. How can I get it to boot to Primary (Win8.1) again?
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