[SOLVED] System Boot Problems

[razor1773]

I was attempting to run a program off an external hard drive and the program needed an installation of some kind so i quickly installed it without thinking and it turns out it changed the boot drive to the external hard drive. i have attempted through the bios setting to change the doot to to where windows was installed, on an ssd but this simple showed errors. when pluging the external hard drive back in and booting the pc from that it shows a dell system recovery program. i am not sure what to do. should i run the dell system recovery or what im kinda lost

 

[Colif]

Do you have a Dell? I wouldn't run the program if you don't.

what program was it, as its possible we can find instructions to resolve this problem

Do you have a Win 10 installer? Its a handy boot drive and might be able to use it to fix the problem. if you don't, on another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

If its not fixable via bios, it makes me think it has altered the boot files in windows.
unplug external hdd
see if this helps

change boot order so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install.
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose command prompt
Follow this: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-rebuild-the-bcd-in-windows-2624508