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How to make a harddisk standalone bootable?

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deaffob

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I recently got an extra SSD and I installed Windows 7 on it. The problem is when I installed it, I installed it from Windows 7 on my old HDD. I installed all drivers and did all the choirs for the new OS. Then I went to BIOS and changed boot priority to:

1. SSD
2. CD-ROM

So I boot it up and then it gave me "No bootable disk, please change boot priority" error.

Basically this is what happened, the old Windows 7 installed boot loader on the old HDD so I have to boot from the old HDD. Then it will give me the bootable os options and I can choose from which os to boot.

My question is, is there a way to install a separate boot loader on my new SSD so that it can boot standalone?

Thanks,
 
I don't know if this will work, but you can try running the Windows 7 install from the DVD (boot from the DVD) with only the SSD attached, and choose the repair option.
 
I had a similar problem lately, except my main drive wasn't an SSD. Win7 is weird that it'll put the bootloader on a secondary drive.

Boot from the old hard drive and use EasyBCD to move the bootloader to your SSD. After that you shouldn't need the old drive to boot anymore.
 
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