Booting Windows off new SSD from grub boots old Windows instead
- by wuputah
After a new SSD install, I have:
Original Windows 7 on sdc1 (to be retired)
Copy of Windows 7 on sdb2
A Windows system partition on sdb1
Ubuntu 12.04 on sda, /boot and ergo grub is on sda1
Grub is MBR on sda and set to boot from BIOS. I prefer to not change this; grub is great!
I've run update-grub (the Ubuntu grub scripts are, at present, unaltered) and grub seems to be correctly configured as all options are available: I can boot any of the 3 Windows partitions and Ubuntu.
I also ran the repair tool to get Windows to add both installations to BCD.
The problem: choosing particular options seem to have no effect; the old version of Windows on sdc1 always boots. I'm stumped!
My thought was to only boot Windows off sdb1, and then let BCD do the rest (present a menu to boot between sdb2 and sdc1, but I can't seem to get BCD to boot sdb2), but this has been unsuccessful.
Reference:
BCDEdit output