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I think the issue is with my BIOS/UEFI , when my Win7 was booting, it would only boot with the Windows Boot Manager. If I'd select my drive in Boot override, it would ask me to select a proper boot device... And guess what, this is the same thing with this new Win10 install: the computer starts normally with the WBM but I get the proper boot device error message if I manually select my HD in the Boot override section.
Unfortunately I can't update my UEFI firmware because my motherboard is an Asus P8P67 B2 and not B3. B2 got replaced by B3 because of 4 faulty INTEL SATA II ports. The SATAIII ports are ok. Asus released a BIOS update for the B3 but not the B2. Maybe this is related to my issues, maybe not.
@FreeBooter
sfc /scannow didn't not find any problem.
Win7 is on my SSD so no chkdsk is required and CrystalDiskInfo marked the SSD as Good. All drives are in perfect condition, I ran chkdsk /f r on my HD, used Seatools etc, everything is OK.
@AddRAM
I'm not sure what you mean by the Boot menu, are you talking about the boot menu from the BIOS/UEFI with the Windows Boot Manager?
Yes it's strange I can't boot on Win7 since installs were done with the drives disconnected like you mentioned. I actually need Win10 to do some testing.
@NavyLCDR
I actually have a backup image of my Win7 system with all boot partitions so I can use their WinPE rescue media to restore my boot partitions. It's just that, I don't understand why the Win10 install messed up with my Win7 system, even though the SSD was unplugged... really scratching my head around this.
Here are pictures from my UEFI BIOS
This is what I get when I select my Win10 system HD directly from the Boot override selection:
Last edited by PODxt; 01 Feb 2018 at 07:00.