Windows 7 only boots from bios, Start-up repair cannot identify windows.

So I recently bought a Samsung SSD 840 PRO 256GB to replace my 80GB Intel SSD. My plan was to migrate Windows 7 to the new drive, delete the old drive and install Ubuntu 14.04 on it. I used this tutorial to transfer the data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYK-C4rIxrI
It didn't work the first time, so I tried a second time (it overwrote the data from the first try.) and it looked like it worked. I unplugged everything except the Samsung, and it booted fine. Then I took the Samsung off and installed Ubuntu 14.04 on the
old drive (which seems to have its own issues, but I will deal with that later.)
When I try system repair, I am unable to choose an OS to repair. When I try bootrec /rebuildbcd it says it cannot recognize the file system and to make sure the system drivers are loaded.
BUT, I can still boot to Windows if I select the drive in bios. (I think Ubuntu is broken, because that wont boot at all.)
My priority is to get windows working, hopefully without reinstalling.

I fixed it somehow, but that was not the problem. I re-installed Ubuntu on the old drive, except I completely deleted all the stuff on the drive first. Then I rebooted both drives separately, they both booted automatically. Now everything works except the
grub boot loader.
I did say that I could still boot to windows by selecting the Samsung in the bios... so your answer didn't help.
I think that the old drive might have been overwritten the wrong way and there was still something from that drive messing with the boot order. That might explain why it worked when I had only the Samsung hooked up.

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