Windows 7 Restoring Boot Order: Making Mechanical Hard Drive Bootable Again After SSD Clone

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When I purchased a SSD, I cloned my Windows 7 mechanical hard drive to the SSD and set the SSD as the boot drive. I need to make the mechanical HD the boot drive again. The BIOS (American Megatrends) lists both drives: SATA Port2 - the SSD drive; SATA Port3 - the mechanical HD. However, the HD does not show up for selecting the boot drive. Does this mean the drive is not bootable? If this is the case, is there a way to make it bootable?
 
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Take a look at the properties for both drives. I suspect your mechanical drive is mounted as an extended partition (not bootable).
Maybe you set it up as dual boot so you can boot from either.
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Take a look at the properties for both drives. I suspect your mechanical drive is mounted as an extended partition (not bootable).
Maybe you set it up as dual boot so you can boot from either.
 
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