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Need to move Windows boot manager from Win 7 drive to Win 10 drive
I have found that when I installed Win 10 Pro 64 on my PC, on a new SSD drive, it put the boot manager on the old Win 7 drive. Perhaps that was because it was in the Drive 0 Sata port and the new SSD was in port 1. Didn't know that at the time. I've used the " which OS do you want the launch " blue screen all this time. Win 10 being the default. If I unplug the old drive, my PC finds nothing to boot to.
I looked at the drive partition info in the "Computer Management -> Disk Management" part of Win 10 and see my C drive is not set as active, but a small System Reserved partition at the front of the Win 7 partition is. The Win 10 partition is set as " Boot, page file, crash dump, Primary partition " and Healthy. With a secondary partition as Recovery Partition.
I used diskpart to verify I am not using an EFI type partition. Doesn't say EFI on any partition in the Manager screen either.
I looked in the c:\boot\ folder on the Win 10 partition and it was empty. I couldn't find where it is supposed to be hiding on Win 7 partition. The Reserved partition is empty as well, but it is listed a " System, Active " I assigned a drive letter to it long enough to browse it.
Where is the boot manager and how do I move it ?