Windows 7 - bcdedit shows device and osdevice = unknown

I recently added a new 2 TB drive to my desktop, and reordered how SATA cables were plugged into my motherboard for my other 3 disks (moving some to SATA 6 gb/s port on motherboard etc). This new drive was just an additional storage drive, the original OS/boot device was still in place, only the SATA port was changed.

I had some issues booting afterwards. Windows would get to loading screen and just spin and spin. I left it for over 24 hours with no changes. I ended up using a Windows 7 dvd and using recovery options. It found a previous system restore point and restored it. After this I was able to boot again.

However, when I go to command prompt and run bcdedit this is my output:

 C:\Users\Administrator>bcdedit Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device unknown description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {current} resumeobject {d9491a3a-d7dc-11dd-8382-b9347c3c15cd} displayorder {current} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 5 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device unknown path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows 7 locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice unknown systemroot \Windows resumeobject {d9491a3a-d7dc-11dd-8382-b9347c3c15cd} nx OptIn`

I am curious why it shows device = unknown and osdevice = unknown for the {current} boot entry? Is this a problem? Can it be fixed manually?

Thanks

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