Data Drive Showing as a Boot Drive?

TechyInAZ · May 11, 2016

My computer just a few minutes ago froze up and I couldn't do anything. After looking on the motherboard LEDs I found out the BIOS was not posting thru the boot devices properly.

After fixing that, I was able to jump into the BIOS to find something odd, my OS drive AND MY Data SSD (no OS on it currently) has shows as bootable in the BIOS.

Why is this? I formatted the drive which originally had windows 7 on it. I'm not storing any Operating system on it right now. Is the boot sector cached in the BIOS for some reason?

Thanks in advance.

Hellfire13 · May 11, 2016

are you able to boot from the OS drive only, with the ssd detached???
when u installed OS, was the ssd attached as secondary???...sometimes remnants of OS remains on ur disk even after formatting...
have u tried boot and nuke???

TechyInAZ · May 11, 2016

Hellfire13 :

I haven't tried booting from the OS drive without the ssd attached yet. HOWEVER, the data drive is very new. My computer already had windows installed when I put in the new drive (which used to have windows 7 on it then I formatted it to use it for storage).

Do you want me to try running my PC with the data drive unplugged?

Hellfire13 · May 11, 2016

yes...tht will be a gud idea...
if ur pc can boot without the ssd, then u can just boot and nuke the ssd for a clean format...

TechyInAZ · May 11, 2016

Hellfire13 :

Yep it boots without data SSD with no issues.

But, thing is I already nuked the data SSD. So idk why it still shows as a boot drive.

Hellfire13 · May 11, 2016

"Is the boot sector cached in the BIOS for some reason?"...
reset the cmos and motherboard jumper settings...
also check the disk in another pc, whether it gives the same issue...

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