Hello,
I am having an very frustration issue, that may already be solved by tomorrow if my friend's format/fresh install works. But this is so troubling for me I just want answers in possible. So long story short we added a boot drive to his Dell Inspiron 660 and were having issues with it prompting us to select which operating system we wanted. So while on his old HDD's operation system we went to msconfig and deleted the secondary windows 7 and made the other one the default. Now we cannot get the SSD to boot at all. The prompt is gone as it should be, but will only default to the HDD.
The boot order in BIOS is correct, along with the "boot drivers" (per dell's bios) which has the SSD first and the HDD second. When we disable the second HDD so that the boot order should only be the SSD it doesn't boot and prompts a insert cd/dvd over and over until we reset it. We've tried F12 and using the one time boot menu and select the SSD, but it will still boot from his HDD. We've tried a system restore from an earlier date with no luck. We've gone into the advanced system settings and the startup and recovery options and there is no secondary operation system to choose.
What did I do wrong? Should I have only deleted the other boot option in msconfig when I was on the SSD operating system rather than the HDD. Should I have disconnected the HDD and forced it to boot from the SSD? Is there anyway to add the other SSD's boot option in msconfig without having to partion the SSD? Any information would be useful, I haven't found anyone having the same problem as this, usually the issues are to add another OS to a single drive or to partition the second drive, etc.
Thanks
I am having an very frustration issue, that may already be solved by tomorrow if my friend's format/fresh install works. But this is so troubling for me I just want answers in possible. So long story short we added a boot drive to his Dell Inspiron 660 and were having issues with it prompting us to select which operating system we wanted. So while on his old HDD's operation system we went to msconfig and deleted the secondary windows 7 and made the other one the default. Now we cannot get the SSD to boot at all. The prompt is gone as it should be, but will only default to the HDD.
The boot order in BIOS is correct, along with the "boot drivers" (per dell's bios) which has the SSD first and the HDD second. When we disable the second HDD so that the boot order should only be the SSD it doesn't boot and prompts a insert cd/dvd over and over until we reset it. We've tried F12 and using the one time boot menu and select the SSD, but it will still boot from his HDD. We've tried a system restore from an earlier date with no luck. We've gone into the advanced system settings and the startup and recovery options and there is no secondary operation system to choose.
What did I do wrong? Should I have only deleted the other boot option in msconfig when I was on the SSD operating system rather than the HDD. Should I have disconnected the HDD and forced it to boot from the SSD? Is there anyway to add the other SSD's boot option in msconfig without having to partion the SSD? Any information would be useful, I haven't found anyone having the same problem as this, usually the issues are to add another OS to a single drive or to partition the second drive, etc.
Thanks
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