Questionold windows is gone
Questionold windows is gone
So I have two hardsisks, named drive1 and drive2.
I had Windows installed on drive1 and it still works.
I added Windows to drive2, but in the BIOS I only see one boot loader—drive1—but it’s trying to launch drive2.
I’m wondering why this happens and how to fix it.
What operating system is being used?
Were both storage devices linked during installation?
What appears during the startup process?
Hi thanks for the update.
Both systems are running Windows 10 64-bit. When I installed them, both drives were already connected and had Windows 10 64-bit on each. Switching was easy—I used to go to BIOS and swap the first disk at boot.
I wanted to perform a fresh installation of drive2, formatted it, and install Windows. The fresh install is working fine. It seems the old bootloader got overwritten by drive2.
In my BIOS, the boot order is:
disk1
disk2
bootloader disk1 (which launches disk2)
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Disk1 represents the active Windows (Disk2 is mentioned in the explanation)
Disk0 refers to the Windows that isn't visible (Disk1 is referenced there)
Disk 0 is the location of your boot partition.
This occurred because both drives were physically connected, both times.
What outcome are you aiming for?
A single Windows installation?
How recently did you perform this second install?
Are you open to starting fresh this time? (correctly)
I need two separate windows, keeping the current and the old one so I can swap them in BIOS as before. I want to avoid starting over, since the old drive had a complicated server setup that made fresh installation difficult. Is there a way to recover it? It was about two months ago.
Well, how you did this was pretty much the absolute worst way to do it.
What OS(s) is this?
When you boot up, what do you see, exactly?
Unfortunately, I wasn't aware that I needed to disconnect the other drive; this problem never occurred. Both drives are Windows 10 64bit. When I power on, it immediately launches the new OS as if the previous one didn't exist, and the issue arose right after installing the new system. If you're referring to the BIOS settings, I notice something similar: old drive name, new drive name, Windows boot loader: old drive name.