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So my laptop recently stopped working and I have a desktop so I moved my laptop hard drive to the desktop. The desktop originally had its own hard driver which is still there. When I added the laptop hard drive to the dektop windows 10 still boots from the desktop hard drive and I don't know how to change the settings so the windows 10 will boot from the laptop hard drive. Please can anyone help me with this I would really appreciate this.

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Go into your bios, and there should be a tab for boot priorities 

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4 minutes ago, DarkDragon2K04 said:

I have changed the boot priorities but it still does not boot from the new hard drive

You should also be able to force boot into a selected drive

If not, just unplug the other one

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1 minute ago, Slottr said:

You should also be able to force boot into a selected drive

If not, just unplug the other one

I have tried removing the other drive but then it tells me no boot media seen but if I go to bios it shows me it sees the second one that is still plugged in

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1 minute ago, DarkDragon2K04 said:

I have tried removing the other drive but then it tells me no boot media seen but if I go to bios it shows me it sees the second one that is still plugged in

So there's no bootable data from that drive, that means your windows boot manager is probably goofed up somewhere or your hard drive is done.

 

Boot to a windows boot drive and try to repair your disk from there

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