Recent content by Sunshine I

THANK YOU SO MUCH. This command worked perfect, and everything starts up quickly, just like it should, and with the old HDD as backup storage! Thank you!!!!!

Ok, so pressing F1 just kept bringing me back to this exact recovery page for some reason so I made a Win 10 USB bootable media. Booted recovery environment, went to repair your pc, advanced options, command prompt. I did the bottom section of code you sent me to check the volume names first...

View: https://imgur.com/a/NOc3Hef Wow! Ok awesome. I set it to UEFI and moved Windows Boot Manager to the 1st priority. Then got this recovery screen. Thats progress in my book cuz I was getting nothing everywhere else. This is my first time seeing a screen like this. Im assuming I'll need to...

View: https://imgur.com/a/KKlOuZK So the Diskpart thing worked. The HDD now has 1 NTFS Healthy Primary Partition. Thank you for teaching me how to do that SkyNetRising :) . It should be just fine as an extra storage now that the EFI System partition is gone. Sorry for the confusion on which...

I will do the diskpart thing for sure. That makes alot of sense. Ill let you know how that goes. The reason Im not sure about the ssd being bootable is because (sry i should have said this earlier) after nothing was being recognized, I DID take out the HDD and left just the ssd in there and the...

for sure View: https://imgur.com/a/bUFgLgO So, I cant do anything with these other 6 partitions. No idea why. (Theres no option to delete/format/shrink etc.) but the New Volume (F: )is formatted and it lets me modify that partition. Are those partitions the problem maybe? If so, Is there a...

@USAFRet I have a very similar issue- I did all of these steps in your original post to the letter EXCEPT at the very end, I formatted the old drive using the windows disc management program but DID NOT remove the multiple partitions that were on the drive. I reinserted the old drive and now...

Thank you for your willingness to help! The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 7720- CPU is 2.3-GHz Intel Core i7-3610QM, 8gb Ram, Intel HD Graphics 4000. The SSD is a Silicon Power 1TB SSD 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Performance Boost SATA III 2.5". The HDD is a Seagate Samsung Spinpoint M8 ST1000LM024...

So on my laptop with 2 sata drive bays, I cloned my HDD to the new SSD. Cloning went great. I took the original (source) HDD out of the laptop after shutdown. I then started it up and it booted PERFECTLY on the new SSD. I then took the old HDD and hooked it up via SATA onto my desktop, and...