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We had a SATA3 drive that was performing poorly and making noise, and installed Windows 7 onto a new drive. The install went well, but left the bootloader on the old drive, and so I could not remove it; Windows treated it as a multi-boot system with a new boot option on the new disk. Everything worked, so I figured I'd have time to fix it. Well, the old drive died a few weeks later and now I have no idea how to address this.

How can I instruct the PC to boot to the new disk, when there isn't a bootloader present on it? Do I need to reinstall Windows from scratch? From looking at the board specs, it supports UEFI, I am unsure if this is relevant.

Thanks!

EDIT: I've been able to get the original boot drive running. That drive has a 100MB EFI partition, can I simply resize the new disk to add a new partition at the beginning of the drive, and copy it there?

mikewaters
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  1. Boot from your Win7 installation media
  2. Choose Windows 7 Setup Language and Other Settings
  3. Click on the Repair Your Computer Link
  4. Choose Your Windows 7 Installation
  5. Choose the Startup Repair Recovery Tool

This process should locate your installation and make a new Windows boot loader that points to it.

SOURCE: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-perform-a-startup-repair-in-windows-7-2626170

HackSlash
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