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Something on my windows 7 partition prevents win10 upgrade or boot
So I have gone through all the usual hoops I can find on the upgrade issues, mostly based off the one error I have managed to get spit back: 0xC1900101 - 0x20017
This is usually found to be a driver error, but after removing everything possible to no avail I said screw it and went for the clean install.
The install media would get stuck at the spinning dots even after booting directly to it, that is until I removed the older hard drives, namely the one with my win7 install. I now have a clean win10 sitting pretty (on an SSD), but here goes my issue, if I plug the win7 drive back in (with computer off) I get stuck on spinning dots again! After restart I can get a repair screen which only leads to a black screen with a mouse. Take out the one drive again and I can get in. Fun stuff so far.
What is most curious: I dropped in the drive when win10 was up (yay sata hotswap), and it read the other two partitions great! But the win7 partition isn't read, leading me to believe something is corrupted there.
Ultimately and ideally I would like to do an upgrade to keep my files around and not deal with restoring everything. less ideally would be getting the win10 install to see the win7 install partition, but I would bet these issues are one in the same.
I have run chkdsk and /sfc scannow, no errors on either.
For record is what I have in win7, and when I hotswap this drive in on 10 C: will not show up.
TIA