15 R3, boot order management

Question

Got a weird issue. I am in the process of selling my 15 R3. When I had it originally it came with a hard drive so I bought a M2 drive and cloned my OS to the new drive. It always then booted from the M2 drive despite the hard drive also still having the original OS. I took the M2 drive out today to place in new system but forgot just how slow a hard drive is when I rebooted the 15 R3 so put the m2 back into the 15 R3. Now the 15 R3 will only boot from the M2 if I select it in boot manager. Once I restart it uses the hard drive. I even formatted the hard drive but then it attempts a repair so is still being sent to that drive and not the M2. It worked fine before so not sure what's up. There does not appear a way of changing boot drive order. If I took the hard drive out would that solve the issue?

ejn63 · Answer

See here for changing the boot partition: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/bcd-system-store-settings-for-uefi

A51-06 · Answer

I say just install a fresh copy of windows and not use the clone data. That should be the answer because maybe something in the cloned data is causing the issue.

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