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Originally Posted by Adraco
Check:
Boot order in BIOS
Internal harddrives used to have/still have a way of selecting if the drive was Primary, Secondary or Cable select. Check backside of the harddrives.
There is usually a setting in modern BIOS to always try booting from a USB first, that is usually done to load for example Winfows Pre-load Environment. You can disable boot from usb.
Check your cables so that they are connected to the motherboard in the right order. Since you switched the cables, there is a small possibility you put them back in wrong order.
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The BIOS is set UEFI/Legacy. I do have it so that is selects the USB 1st in case there are issues, as I have now.... This has always been set to this....
I did run a system file check, there was some corruption and it was fixed. Thinking this was a good thing and it would be back to normal... Nope! But the boot up was not as bad.
Once I saw the system was still acting up, i just loaded linux from a usb, then rebooted. Windows started fine after that. So you are correct, there must be something in the bios that is causing this....
I have tried resetting the BIOS but that did not help.... as for the drive order, does that really matter? It looks like it will look for an OS automatically. USB 1st, CD 2nd HDD 3rd. however I do notice that only the one hard drive is listed without UEFI or USB added to it. It looks like the other HDD is not showing at all or if so, as a USB HDD.
Oh yes.... the jump switch on the HDD itself... i totally forgot about those. Good catch.... I know the 1tb was set as the main for sure. The 2 tb should be secondary. Not sure why the OS chose the secondary drive as the primary though. Not sure why this would start happening all of a sudden after 2 years of fully functional operation.
Thanks for the tip, will start looking more at the BIOS now.
