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strange results attempting to repair boot
I just wanted to share a weird experience I had and wanted to see if anyone had this experience before
So I installed an old hard drive into my pc then removed it. When I started up windows again, I was getting the "please install a proper boot device" I couldnt boot into my windows SSD
I created a windows 10 usb stick on another computer but instead of reinstalling, I wanted to see if I could fix the problem.
I went into command prompt and realized the boot partition didnt have a letter assigned to it so I assigned the letter E which still didnt work
I went back into command prompt and used the command bcdboot C:\windows but forgot to switch the C to an E so when I restarted the computer, instead of booting into the usb windows installation/repair menu, it booted up windows...
Heres the weird part, it didnt boot windows on the usb...it booted into windows on my regular windows SSD, I could see all my files and my local disk was my ssd and not the usb stick (see photo attached)
Now the only problem i'm having is, if I remove the usb stick, windows freezes.
Does anyone know the next step I can take to resolve this and make windows boot from my SSD again?
UPDATE: so it doesnt add a boot to the usb, it adds it to my samsung ssd ( i tried again since my samsung ssd is now C:") but it still boots from the usb and changes the usb from an installer to a booter for some reason