Clean installation on new ssd, win7 now on sdb1

Hello
This might be more a win7 related post, or maybe grub, not sure:
I used to have dual boot Arch/Win7, with the following fstab:
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
Recently I bought an ssd, and made a new clean install(installed os-prober, updated grub.cfg with grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg), with the resulting fstab
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,relatime,noatime,nodiratime,discard,data=ordered 0 1 #new ssd
/dev/sdb1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 /media/oldroot ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb3 /media/oldhome ext4 defaults 0 1
"oldroot" (previous arch installation) boots ok (I changed the /media/oldroot/etc/fstab to the new sd# order)
windows (Win7) tries to boot (windows logo appears on screen), but after a few seconds the machine reboots.
Does anyone know how to make my old windows partition bootable (maybe I have to edit some windows files?)
Thanks!

Thanks @DSpider
I removed some flags, but left noatime and discard.
From the archwiki
Mount Flags
There are several key mount flags to use in one's /etc/fstab entries for SSD partitions.
noatime- Reading accesses to the file system will no longer result in an update to the atime information associated with the file. The importance of the noatime setting is that it eliminates the need by the system to make writes to the file system for files which are simply being read. Since writes can be somewhat expensive as mentioned in previous section, this can result in measurable performance gains. Note that the write time information to a file will continue to be updated anytime the file is written to with this option enabled.
discard - The discard flag will enable the benefits of the TRIM command as long as one is using kernel version >=2.6.33. It does not work with ext3; using the discard flag for an ext3 root partition will result in it being mounted read-only.
About my win7 non-booting thing, I'll try later this week to rearrange my drives.
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