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Windows not recognized without another empty drive

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old drive is seen as boot and the newer drive is being seen as an extension to the C drive.  that is a very simplistic description.

you need to ensure that the newer drive has the boot sector 

open CMD as admin and run the BCD commands to fix things

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/bcdedit-command-line-options?view=windows-11

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I have several drives, and reinstalled windows onto another one
256GB ssd
1TB ssd
I used to have windows on the 256 one, but reinstalled it onto the 1TB one. 

 

Ever since, it kept loading up with dual windows, although I only have it installed on the 1TB one (the 256GB drive is EMPTY, and wanted to remove it eventually)

 

Today I removed the 256 drive and windows couldn't load, did not recognize the windows folder from C:. I put the 256GB drive back and I'm typing this thread now, looking for solution without cleaning off windows and reinstall everything.

 

Have you ever met with this issue?

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old drive is seen as boot and the newer drive is being seen as an extension to the C drive.  that is a very simplistic description.

you need to ensure that the newer drive has the boot sector 

open CMD as admin and run the BCD commands to fix things

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/bcdedit-command-line-options?view=windows-11

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