Make my SSD bootable? (Solved)

[Oxides]

Win 8.1x64.
Currently i have a SSD (c drive), and a few hard drives.
The bios boot order is SSD, (old stinky drive D, some other drives.

D: drive is a data/program drive. I copied the contents to a new faster/larger drive, un-allocated the drive letter, and made the new one d:. Everything works fine.

But, if i disconnect the old D: from the motherboard, the computer wont boot up.

The SSD is partitioned: System Reserve(system,active,primary partition), c: (boot/page file/crash dump, primary partition), and some un-allocated space.
The old D: says primary partition (nothing about boot and no drive letter).

It seems like the computer will only boot off D:, switch to the SSD and shift the drive letters around or something strange.

How can I fix this so i can remove that old D drive?

 

[deustroop]

Is the new faster drive a Samsung SSD ? Does it have cloning software ?

 

[jkauff]

Windows, for some strange reason, puts some of its boot files on a second drive if you have one connected when you do your initial install. You old D: drive had a hidden partition on it with those files, which is why you can't boot now, because you only copied your files from the old disc instead of cloning.

Disconnect the new D: drive (and any other drives as well) so this doesn't happen again, then use your Windows install disc to do a boot repair on the SSD. All your boot files will then be on the SSD.

 

[Oxides]

Disconnect the new D: drive (and any other drives as well) so this doesn't happen again, then use your Windows install disc to do a boot repair on the SSD. All your boot files will then be on the SSD.

It's been a while, but i figured I would come back and say thanks. That was what happened and your fix worked.

 

[Puffnstuff]

With as many versions of windows as we've seen you'd think that MS would've fixed this problem by now. I always make sure that only the boot drive is present when I install windows to prevent this issue.