I recently added a new 2 TB drive to my desktop, and reordered how SATA cables were plugged into my motherboard for my other 3 disks (moving some to SATA 6 gb/s port on motherboard etc). This new drive was just an additional storage drive, the original OS/boot device was still in place, only the SATA port was changed.
I had some issues booting afterwards. Windows would get to loading screen and just spin and spin. I left it for over 24 hours with no changes. I ended up using a Windows 7 dvd and using recovery options. It found a previous system restore point and restored it. After this I was able to boot again.
However, when I go to command prompt and run bcdedit this is my output:
C:\Users\Administrator>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device unknown
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {d9491a3a-d7dc-11dd-8382-b9347c3c15cd}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 5
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {current}
device unknown
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice unknown
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {d9491a3a-d7dc-11dd-8382-b9347c3c15cd}
nx OptIn`
I am curious why it shows device = unknown and osdevice = unknown for the {current} boot entry? Is this a problem? Can it be fixed manually?
Thanks
