MikeYants

I ended up loading windows 7 on top of the old windows 7 and now the mouse and keyboard are working after that I used a partition...

Another small issue came up after I fixed the problem with the boot record This is only on the old windows 7 partition so that is kind...

I would not have had any problems if Windows 11 wasn't so slow so I had to mess with it. It was taking 3 minutes to load just for...

Good news ! I got it working I read some discussion about MBR that the boot from one drive maybe on the opposite drive so I installed...

I think I made it worse by using the diskpart to set the active partition I tried to use the windows 7 to get to the cmd prompt to see...

Unfortunately I don't have a disk for the windows 10 I got the pc with windows 10 preinstalled

About the last ditch effort I would not be able to do it because I don't have a windows 11 disk but I have one on order so that will...

I think you are right about that So I think it can see the drive but cannot set it as active It's a bit strange the way the bios is set...

Yes I did shut down and then disconnected It's possible that the partition got moved but how you explain the situation now that I...

I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the second drive but for some reason it is not recognizing it although it did recognize the dvd...

Here is another oddball situation When I was looking at easy bcd in the windows 10 desktop it was showing windows 11 and even using...

Thanks. I will try that later Will a windows 7 recovery dvd work to be able to use the bootrec command

I reset the bios but it did not detect my other drives but it did reset to secure boot to disabled I will try to unplug the drive see if...

No that was just from the cmd I don't think I can go into recovery environment without windows 11 dvd

The motherboard is an ASrock UFI version B85M-ITX P2.50 Chipset version: C2 At the exit from the bios it has the saving instruction plus...