Windows 10 asks me which operating system to boot when I only have one installed.

[May2ko]

So recently, I bought an SSD so I could reinstall Windows 10 on it and start afresh instead of having it on my hard drive. So now I have an empty hard drive and a 60GB SSD.

Every time I boot my computer, whether it's from shutdown or restart, it asks me whether I want to boot into Windows 10 on volume 0 (being my SSD) or volume 3 (being my HDD), however, I only have Windows installed on my SSD.

Is there a way I can remove this option so I don't have to choose the operating system every time. Did I do something wrong during installation?

Thanks in advance.

C: drive is where Windows 10 is currently installed. D: drive is where it used to be installed.

 

[4745454b]

Doing a super fast web search I'm assuming this will help you fix things.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/change-boot-defaults-options-dual-booting-windows-10

You formatted D? I saw it's 100% free. I also saw to the right of that drive you have two more partitions that you should just fold into D. So you have the extra space.

 

[dvd03cr]

you can use "msconfig" command them go to the boot tap and delete the older one

 

[May2ko]

Doing a super fast web search I'm assuming this will help you fix things.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/change-boot-defaults-options-dual-booting-windows-10

You formatted D? I saw it's 100% free. I also saw to the right of that drive you have two more partitions that you should just fold into D. So you have the extra space.

That's what I'm trying to do but I can't figure out how to "fold it"

 

[May2ko]

you can use "msconfig" command them go to the boot tap and delete the older one

How do I go about doing this?

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out, I didn't know you meant tab and not tap

 

[May2ko]

you can use "msconfig" command them go to the boot tap and delete the older one

Ok, so I've done this and it no longer asks me which operating system to boot into, however, the recovery partition and the system reserve is still there

 

[ko888]

you can use "msconfig" command them go to the boot tap and delete the older one

Ok, so I've done this and it no longer asks me which operating system to boot into, however, the recovery partition and the system reserve is still there

Those partitions can be deleted. If you don't have any data on the HDD you can just delete all of the partitions on the HDD and create a single partition.

 

[USAFRet]

You installed the OS on the SSD, while you had the HDD still connected.
This just overlaid the new boot info alongside the old.

Hence, the 'choice' you're given.
You can, via msconfig, remove the second 'choice'.
But that partition still lives on the old drive. If you ever take it out, or it dies, no boot for you.

 

[USAFRet]

Before you fully wipe that HDD of all partitions....TEST.
Power off
Disconnect it.
Power up.

Does it boot correctly? If so, good.
If not, the boot process depends on that second drive.

 

[May2ko]

Before you fully wipe that HDD of all partitions....TEST.
Power off
Disconnect it.
Power up.

Does it boot correctly? If so, good.
If not, the boot process depends on that second drive.

Ok, I will test that now;

However, let's say that that it's all good and it doesn't depend on the second drive, how do I format it and remove all partitions.

Also, let's say it does depend on it, what do I do to stop that?

UPDATE: It won't boot if the HDD is unplugged. I formatted the hard drive before I installed the new operating system on the SSD so I don't see why this has happened. How can I fix this?

 

[dvd03cr]

you can use "msconfig" command them go to the boot tap and delete the older one

How do I go about doing this?

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out, I didn't know you meant tab and not tap

oh! sorry i didnt notice so sorry

 

[USAFRet]

UPDATE: It won't boot if the HDD is unplugged. I formatted the hard drive before I installed the new operating system on the SSD so I don't see why this has happened. How can I fix this?

Right.
The boot partition is on the HDD.

How old is this OS install? You might consider just redoing it.
This time, with ONLY the SSD connected.

Formatting the drive did NOT remove that boot partition. You just formatted the old C partition.
Actually getting rid of those little partitions generally requires the /clean command in the diskpart commandline.

 

[May2ko]

I'm re downloading the windows 10 media creation tool, I'll just reinstall windows 10 again.

What are the commands to remove those partitions?

 

[USAFRet]

I'm re downloading the windows 10 media creation tool, I'll just reinstall windows 10 again.

What are the commands to remove those partitions?

For your clean install, this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3567655/clean-installation-windows.html

To wipe that other drive:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3076355/clean-clean-diskpart.html

 

[May2ko]

Thank you very much @USAFRet, it won't let me reply to your answer on mobile for some weird reason but it's all sorted now, everything is working!