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danielbr141

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So i had a problem with my windows 7 (stuck at boot animation) so i decided to install a new hard drive with windows 10 (i installed windows 7 and upgraded it to 10) so now i have 2 drives . 1 with windows 10 and 1 with windows 7(corrupted ) and all of my old files . but for some reason when i boot up the old drive (win 7) it boots to win 10 , and when i boot to the win 10 drive it sends a corrupted win 7 message and i have no idea why .
if you can help me solve this that would be great , thanks !



WD blue caviar 1TB (Win 7 - corrupted)
Hitachi HD 1TB (win 10 )
I7-2600
GTS - 450
Intel DH67BL
2 X Samsung DDR3 4GB (Total 8)
 
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bloc97
If you installed Windows 10 while the corrupted Windows 7 was the main drive, all the boot files are in the Windows 7 drive, while the windows installation is in the Win 10 drive. You will have to reinstall windows 10 by only plugging in the Windows 10 drive. Its a general rule of thumb to unplug all the hard drives other than the one you're using to install windows 10 when you're doing an fresh installation.
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If you installed Windows 10 while the corrupted Windows 7 was the main drive, all the boot files are in the Windows 7 drive, while the windows installation is in the Win 10 drive. You will have to reinstall windows 10 by only plugging in the Windows 10 drive. Its a general rule of thumb to unplug all the hard drives other than the one you're using to install windows 10 when you're doing an fresh installation.
 
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If you installed Windows 10 with both HDDs in the computer, the Windows 10 bootloader should have included Windows 7 in dual boot but it appears that for some reason it did not solve that part.

So.. you have to edit the Windows 10 bootloader to include Windows 7 or make the correction. And if Win7 still doesn't boot after that, it may be due to unrelated issues in Windows 7.

Once you get Windows 7 to boot, install EasyBCD in it also to verify both OS entries so that each OS can boot if you remove/unplug the other hard drive.

EasyBCD Community Edition
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/EasyBCD.shtml

EasyBCD screenshots
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/EasyBCD.shtml#sgal_0
 
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I never had 2 drive in the same system before so I didn't know that .
I disconnected the second drive and installed win 10 and now everything works great !
Thank you very much !.

But i do have a one question , how do i delete the windows 7 files from the over drive without loosing all of the other data ?
 
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Delete the Windows folder if you don't need the windows files anymore. Delete the Program Files and Program Files (x86) folder if you do not need the programs anymore. Don't delete Users folder, it contains all the stuff on your desktop and saves files from the programs.
 
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