Pulled out SSD cable and now windows 10 won't boot

Disk 1 is the one you want to keep. You will need to make the C: partition... Active.

RealZeal said:

Okay, thank you. How do I 'keep' it?

Just right click the C: partition and choose: "Mark As Active".

RealZeal said:

I can't, it's grayed out and not selectable.

Might have to use Diskpart to do that. I'm not sure. I don't really ever use Diskpart.

@RealZeal
Your Windows system is using GPT disk, You cannot mark it as Active.
When you use Macrium to fix the Windows boot problem. It created a dual boot entry since you have 2 disks (disk 0 and disk 1) containing EFI System partitions.

Boot up as normal then:
Win+R then type msconfig
click on boot tab. There will be 2 entries, Keep the Default OS then delete the other.
Reboot

@Ghot
His system is not the same as yours. You are using MBR disk, not GPT disk.

topgundcp said:

@RealZeal
Your Windows system is using GPT disk, You cannot mark it as Active.
When you use Macrium to fix the Windows boot problem. It created a dual boot entry since you have 2 disks (disk 0 and disk 1) containing EFI System partitions.

Boot up as normal then:
Win+R then type msconfig
click on boot tab. There will be 2 entries, Keep the Default OS then delete the other.
Reboot
@Ghost
His system is not the same as yours. You are using MBR disk, not GPT disk.

Thx. I do things a bit differently... like I have Win 10 on an MBR partition. As you can probably tell, I'm NOT a big fan of quite a few of MS's "improvements".



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@RealZeal
Isn't that Macrium bootable media, fantastic?