From that point forward, my system would boot directly to Windows 10 Preview, bypassing the previous dual-boot configuration completely. Windows 10 Preview configured that drive as the boot drive. I installed Windows 10 Preview many months ago to a second SSD that I purchased for that purpose, plugged into the third port on my motherboard. I had the usual boot options on this drive. So, I had Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 successfully dual-booting from an SSD drive plugged into in the first port on my UEFI motherboard. This seems like a good thread for this question. Remember that what ever drive you boot to will show up as drive C:\, so look at the drive size to make sure which one of the drives you are dealing with in EasyBCD. (This makes it so the computer will only boot from this drive automatically, you have to put in a special key combination during the POST process to get it to boot from any other drive.)Īs I said I didn't have to do this but you may.Īnyway, if you tell it to boot to the SSD and it does you can check or change the setup using EasyBCD. Once in the BIOS if you go to the BOOT tab and find Hard Drive BBS Priorities, you can select the new SSD as the first boot option and disable all other boot options in this menu. Then reboot but as you are rebooting tap the key to get into the BIOS.
After you are done installing Windows 10, turn the system off and reconnect the other drives.
Disconnect the data cables from the other two drives when installing windows 8 and upgrading to windows 10 (so you are only working with a single drive) Ģ. Now on a different note, here are the instructions that the tech at Falcon NW gave to my about restarting the compute after installing on the new drive.ġ. What I found was that my old install didn't even show up.Īfter rebooting a couple of times to be sure, I removed the old Windows install and formatted the drive.ĭon't remove the old install until you are sure that it boots to the new drive directly, without asking you which one. I then opened Easy BCD to remove the old Windows install from the boot sequence. I was prepared to do tricks in the Bios but all I had to do was select the boot menu, tell it to boot to the SSD and it did. My old boot drive was on my hard drive and I installed a new SSD and reinstalled my new Windows 10 install on that.
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