Unintended Dual Boot After Bios Update

[Misato]

I was putting together a new system, and for the first time I used an SSD. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on there. In the system I also have an old drive, a 2tb traditional hard drive. When I installed Windows, it made a partition called System Reserved, about 100 megs in size (I assume on the traditional hard drive, since my SSD didn't seem to shrink in size.) Apparently this isn't unheard of.

The problem came when I updated my motherboard's bios a few days later. After I did that, there's now 2 System Reserved partitions, and when I boot the computer it gives me a boot option, I can choose to boot into Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Ultimate. Two of the same choice. Now I got no clue why this happened, and frankly I'd rather this whole thing just go away; make it for only one choice and when I reboot the computer just boot, not stop to ask me for a moronic decision. Is this somehow reasonably possible? (And no reformatting/reinstalling Windows doesn't qualify, that's a lot more trouble than this dual boot annoyance is worth.)

 

[t53186]

This will answer your question-

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/210983-dual-boot-delete-os.html

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

As t53186 says.

The mistake you made was when you installed Windows you left the old hard drive attached to the PC.
In future, if you don't want dual boot, make sure all other storage devices are disconnected when you install.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Please post screenshot of your Disk management and
output of bcdedit (must use elevated command prompt).

You can delete unnecessary bootloader entries with bcdedit also.
But it is rather inconvinient.

Vista Boot Pro or EasyBCD - have graphical interface and are more convinient to use.

 

[Misato]

This will answer your question-

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/210983-dual-boot-delete-os.html

Ok, tried what's there, but I screwed something up. Thought I followed the instructions all, but when I rebooted the computer couldn't find any bootable partition it seems. Used my windows disc to recover and it's just fine now it seems. I'm not sure what I did wrong though.

 

[t53186]

This will answer your question-

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/210983-dual-boot-delete-os.html

Ok, tried what's there, but I screwed something up. Thought I followed the instructions all, but when I rebooted the computer couldn't find any bootable partition it seems. Used my windows disc to recover and it's just fine now it seems. I'm not sure what I did wrong though.

Glad you fixed it!