Computer booting from wrong drive

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The boot partition is on my 120GB SSD and the system partition is on my 320GB WD HDD. I've just discovered that my boot and system partitions for windows 7 are on different hard drives. However, some computer users ran into the following situation: System partition: This disk partition contains the 2 boot files Bootmgr and BCD.īoot partition: It is a primary partition that contains the boot loader that is a piece of software responsible for booting the operating system. In other words, these two partitions are indispensable for booting an operating system.

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These two partitions must exist and be probably configured for a computer to operate. The system partition and boot partition are computing terms for disk partitions of a disk drive. System Partition and Boot Partition on Different Drives