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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The thread discusses an issue where a user previously cloned Windows 7 from an HDD to an SSD and now wants to revert to booting from the mechanical hard drive. The user reports that the HDD isn't appearing as a boot option in the BIOS, possibly indicating it isn't bootable. Respondents suggest checking drive properties and partition types, implying the HDD may not be configured as bootable or may be set up as a non-bootable partition, rather than a straightforward issue with the drive itself.
The thread discusses an issue where a user previously cloned Windows 7 from an HDD to an SSD and now wants to revert to booting from the mechanical hard drive. The user reports that the HDD isn't appearing as a boot option in the BIOS, possibly indicating it isn't bootable. Respondents suggest checking drive properties and partition types, implying the HDD may not be configured as bootable or may be set up as a non-bootable partition, rather than a straightforward issue with the drive itself.
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Ed Hoffman
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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.
Maybe you set it up as dual boot so you can boot from either.