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So i bought an ssd yesterday and everything is fine but sometimes my pc will boot into a wrong harddrive so sometimes when i turn it on it goes to windows 8.1 instantly and sometimes it'll boot into recovery mode and i have to restart my pc go to boot option and select the SSD And the SSD Isnt showing in the bios
 
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This happens, when you install windows with multiple drives present in the system.
OS is installed onto 120GB SSD, but bootloader is placed on 1TB HDD.

If you remove 1TB drive from system, your pc would not boot anymore.

What you have to do is to:
  • 1. Shrink C: partition by 300MB;
    2. Create a new partition in freed up space, format ntfs, assign some drive letter (for example X: ) ;
    3. mark X: partition active;
    4. create bootloader files onto X: (execute from elevated command prompt or you'll get an error) :
    • bcdboot c:\windows /s x:
    5. Shutdown your pc, disconnect all drives except OS drive (120GB SSD);
    6. Verify boot sequence in BIOS;
    7. Try to boot up your system;
    8. If everything boots up normally, then shutdown...
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You put in an SSD.
Did you install the OS on it?
Is there another OS on a different drive?
If you installed the OS on the SSD, was the other drive still connected when you did it?
 
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Yes the os on the ssd only
And what i figure out once i boot into windows an external harddrive will open automaticly so what i think is windows is trying to boot from external harddrive
 
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If the OS is on the SSD only, how can it be trying to boot from some other drive?

Maybe you still have the install USB stick still connected?
Trying to get Windows to boot from an external HDD is a deliberate action. It can't do that accidentally.
 
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That is the thing the install usb isnt in the pc and the hdd has nothing on it not its still empty al i installed is like 3 programs on the ssd i think this happened after i install driver booster and it updated something which made this problem
 
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"driver booster"

Don't do that. Ever.

If this is a brand new install, I'd start over.
Install the OS on the SSD, with only the SSD.
During this new install, delete ALL existing partitions and start over.
 
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I installed the intel / invidia drivers manually but i dont know the other required drivers that’s why i use driver booster is there anything else that tells me what drivers should i install?
 
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This happens, when you install windows with multiple drives present in the system.
OS is installed onto 120GB SSD, but bootloader is placed on 1TB HDD.

If you remove 1TB drive from system, your pc would not boot anymore.

What you have to do is to:
  • 1. Shrink C: partition by 300MB;
    2. Create a new partition in freed up space, format ntfs, assign some drive letter (for example X: ) ;
    3. mark X: partition active;
    4. create bootloader files onto X: (execute from elevated command prompt or you'll get an error) :
    • bcdboot c:\windows /s x:
    5. Shutdown your pc, disconnect all drives except OS drive (120GB SSD);
    6. Verify boot sequence in BIOS;
    7. Try to boot up your system;
    8. If everything boots up normally, then shutdown, reconnect all drives, boot up;
    9. Delete System reserved partition from 1TB drive;
    10. Remove drive letter from partition X: .
Done.
 
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Solution
i wasnt home so i couldn't read what u said
so i think i fixed it
what i probably did is
went to the bios and as i said there was no SSD
i just been playing with bios for couple of minutes and i found how to make the SSD the 1# boot option so i tried it and it worked 😀 thanks for your help guys
seems ok for now but i will keep trying for couple of hours to see if its still working or not
thanks for everything by the way.
 
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its fixed.
What i did exactly is i went to Boot Option priorities
and i saw the main disk was the HDD but i couldnt change it to the SSD
so i was playing in the boot option until i Disabled the external harddrive from boot option and made the SSD the Main Boot option
and now its working perfectly fine
Diskmgmt > https://imgur.com/a/CI6MG
 
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You haven't changed anything.

As I said it before - OS is installed onto 120GB drive there.
But your system boots from 350MB System reserved partition on 1TB drive ("System" in description means bootloader partition).
You can't boot from SSD (not until you move bootloader to SSD).

This is, how Disk Management picture should look, if pc was booted from SSD.
disk_management_4.png
 
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https://imgur.com/a/jnEog
so when i deleted the system reserved partition from the 1tb hdd both of them changed colors like as u can see the Disk 0 / 2 is blue while the disk 1 is a different color and is there a way to hide the F: ?
 
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To hide F: - remove drive letter from the partition.

After you deleted system reserved partition from disk 1, you should have left unallocated space there. You obviously tried to extend D: partition to those 350mb and in the process converted disk 1 to dynamic.
Not a big problem now, but if you decide to move dynamic disk to another system, there will be additional steps necessary, for it to become usable there.
I'd probably
  • move all data from d: somewhere else (it's only 26GB anyway),
    delete all partitions from disk 1,
    convert it back to basic,
    create one large partition and
    restore data.
 
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