windows Windows 10... Twice... Win20?

[The Pizza Man]

Sooooo here's the issue. Every time I boot up my PC now, I'll get a prompt to decide which operating system I want to use. My options are Windows 10 (on volume) or... Windows 10... Also on volume lol...

I tried using the first one on top of the list to begin with and actually, that's the wrong one. It's the second one I need to choose that actually boots up correctly and allows me to sign into my desktop etc etc.

Also, all of a sudden, my recovery partition seems to be AWOL. So, I don't do this very often and I'm asking for a little bit of tech support and reassurance (possibly a massage or something since this part of PC maintenance makes me tense). Here's my drive set up so you know what hymn book I'm singing from;

- (C:) (120GB solid state) This homes my operating system (well, perhaps it's plural now..?), supposedly my recovery partition and a few audio plugins for Pro Tools, and Pro Tools itself (ie: a ball ache to have to reinstall all of those)
- (D:) (1TB mechanical hard disk) This houses my games.
- (E:) (1TB mechanical hard disk) This houses all my mixing/mastering sessions.

How do I begin to resolve these problems? If preferable I'd rather not wipe my C drive but I suppose I could copy everything I needed over to another drive if there's truly no other way around it. If it helps the process in any way, I have a 500GB external USB3.0 HDD at my disposal too. There's nothing valuable to me on there.

I've never had an issue that potentially jeopardizes my Windows install before so I'm a complete newbie at this!

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. If you need screen grabs of anything, I'd be happy to oblige.

EDIT: Attached a picture that may or may not be helpful.

[ttam]

Open up your start menu (or press the windows key) and just type in msconfig

 

That opens system configuration.

Click on the Boot tab

You should see multiple listings in here

 

If you see anything other than Windows 10 (C:/Windows) Current OS, Default OS as in say a second listing, let me know. You may just need to delete the second one. It's nothing bad.

[The Pizza Man]

1 minute ago, ttam said:

Open up your start menu (or press the windows key) and just type in msconfig

 

That opens system configuration.

Click on the Boot tab

You should see multiple listings in here

 

If you see anything other than Windows 10 (C:/Windows) Current OS, Default OS as in say a second listing, let me know. You may just need to delete the second one. It's nothing bad.

Thanks for your reply! Here's what my msconfig says...

[ttam]

Just hit delete on the first one listed.

 

This is what Windows looks at when it offers the 2 OS's on boot.

[The Pizza Man]

2 minutes ago, ttam said:

Just hit delete on the first one listed.

 

This is what Windows looks at when it offers the 2 OS's on boot.

Thanks, just deleted the first one in the list and restarted my PC. Sooooo given that I'm typing to you and I've haven't died in a fiery ball of Windows boot loops and frustration I guess it worked!

Thanks again - I'm much better with audio software troubleshooting. Not so hot with OS's ^^