Windows boot manager in wrong drive

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Mitchell.scott48

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I've looked everywhere about this to no avail, the solution is either to just reinstalling windows (which is not what I'm about to do) or so convoluted with techy stuff I don't understand. Now the problem is that for some reason, windows boot manager is on an empty drive that I've always had empty, but I keep windows on my m.2 SSD, that wasn't what I originally installed Windows on, but I've since wiped the drive it was and it doesn't require that.
 
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Lutfij
The best course of action is to have all other drives apart from the drive you intend to install your OS on, to be disconnected from the system/board/ports. This rule applies to all Microsoft OSes. I'd suggest backing up your critical content from your existing OS, move them to a portable storage device, recreate the bootable installer using Windows Media Creation Tools and then reinstalling the OS, with only the SSD connected physically to the system.
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The best course of action is to have all other drives apart from the drive you intend to install your OS on, to be disconnected from the system/board/ports. This rule applies to all Microsoft OSes. I'd suggest backing up your critical content from your existing OS, move them to a portable storage device, recreate the bootable installer using Windows Media Creation Tools and then reinstalling the OS, with only the SSD connected physically to the system.
 
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It's pretty easy. Just need to recreate bootloader partition on the correct drive.
Can you post screenshot from Disk Management?

 
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