boot drive

On a windows 10 PC, I am trying to restore a system image. The PC itself is the same unit except that I've replaced the physical hard drives. The previous setup had a 256GB SSD as the boot drive, and a 1TB HDD as the data drive. The new setup has a 1TB SSD intended to be the boot drive, and a...

Hi, I have recently reinstalled windows on my disk. And I wanted to create a backup of this disk in case I need it in the future. I am using macrium for this, but upon opening it, I have noticed something weird (see image). It seems as if my HDD (Disk 1 - D) has a Windows EFI Partition, for some...

I apologize if this has already been discussed, but I am confused from the posts I've looked at there seem to be more than one answer, and I'm confused- first off- how much of a problem this even is in the first place ? It seems I have 2 boot sources- 1 on the main NVMe c: drive and 1 on the...

I recently built a new computer and it boots into bios just fine. I moved the drives from my old computer into the new, and they're recognized in the bios however they aren't listed as a boot option. I believe this is because I upgraded from the am4 to am5 chipset. Any ideas? Both old and new...

To make a long story short, I have two desktops in my home, and one of them currently doesn’t work. Both PCs only use a single M.2 SSD, therefore both have Windows 11 installed onto them, and both are the boot drives for their respective desktops. Each system also has an Intel processor, so...

I had this server working and booting to debian (or atleast I remember it as debian) but ever since I moved I can't get it to boot. The farthest I get is the efi shell. I have tried changing the sata mode. Fast boot is off. I tried changing the port on the motherboard. Reseating the cmos did...

I'm running an ASUS Prime B560-Plus board with an i5 11400F processor, 48GB DDR4 ram, 2TB M.2 NVMe boot drive and a dedicated GPU. I just tried to upgrade to an i9-10900K processor but the BIOS no longer sees the M.2 boot drive. I reset CMOS. I checked the BIOS compatibility and it should have...

I have a 3070ti and a gigabyte z490 vision g. I am trying to upgrade from a 10300 to an 11700k. When I switch them I get no display and none of my peripherals will display. Also the red light for the cpu is on the motherboard. I tried taking out the gpu and plugging the display into the...

Asus strix b450 f gaming 2 Rog strix 750w psu Ryzen 5800x (just installed) 32 gb trident z royal 3200 (16gb added) Kraken z53 (just installed) 970 evo 500gb, boot drive (switched to different slot) 980 pro heatsink (just installed) Rx6600 Just upgraded the wifes pc pc boots up fine. I was in...

Typing this with my phone so apologies if this message is typed poorly. Was transfering a couple big video files from my boot drive to my second SSD drive when I noticed the transfer bottom out. Whole computer froze with a blue loading circle then I got a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD and upon...

so my friend installed a new motherboard and M.2 drive in his computer and a new installation of windows 10 on it. He still has his old boot drive in the computer, but when he goes to access the files there he only sees "Recovery" text doc. But the drive is still like 90% full. He really needs...

I already have files on the ssd, how do I make it a boot drive without losing what’s on it?

Hi all, I have seen my boot drive’s free space slowly disappearing and I believe Windows updates are the cause. The last update (1/13/22) brought my free space down from 94gb to 89gb. I feel like there is a large portion of free space that has been used that I can restore, I have not found...

Will the Crucial bx500 240GB be good for a boot drive and some games. I have a 1TB HDD for my large games. I'll just keep games that take a long time to load on the SSD. I'll mainly be using it as a boot drive. The Crucial MX500 240G and WD blue 240G both are about 14 USD more than the bx500 in...

I've got a gigabyte x299 ud4 pro motherboard. I have 6 SATA SSD's in RAID 0 as my current boot drive (i know it's flippin stupid that's why i bought the m.2). When I installed my new m.2 it would only boot to bios and only 2 of the 6 drives showed up. I took it out and it works fine again. I was...

Can I create an USB OS installation drive with multiple OS in it? If so, then which software can I use to create one? I want to install an OS from the USB drive, not run an OS from it.

I thought my main problem was just my inaccessible HDD because the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) is missing. Searched for some answers and one of the most promising way to fix the missing BCD is by using a bootable drive and use the command prompt it has. I made a boot drive and I encountered...

I've noticed a problem where my boot drives will reset configuration whenever I manually reset my PC (its a ~1 week old one). I have to reenter the BIOS and reconfigure the priority to my Windows Boot Drive every time it happens. It only happens on manual restarts. Auto restarts by updates or...

I just bought an SSD for my PC and I was wondering if it's possible to do a clean windows install instead of copying it on the new drive without losing data (mostly apps/games). I'm asking this because a few weeks ago I realized that my Win10 was completely [mess up] (can't update, Bluetooth...

I bought a crucial MX500 1TB to use as storage and to launch windows off of, so I used the Acronis True Image software that it comes with to clone my hard drive to it. After 6 hours it was done cloning and I restarted my PC. It automatically set itself as the boot drive which is great but...

Hi. I have the following: Asus Rog Strix Z490-E Gaming Motherboard. 250GB Nvme SSD (BOOT DRIVE) 1TB Nvme SSD (OTHER DRIVE / GAMES) My build is made for gaming and it is just about finished. However, I have doubts about the 250gb SSD with respect to storage space. I want to upgrade it to 500gb...

So, here's the deal. I made this post about trying to boot off of my old drive and trying to keep the original configuration. The original post can be found here: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/upgrading-components-and-trying-to-book-off-old-boot-drive.3652495/ My new question is...

I just got done installing my new i7 10700K and Asus Prime Z-490A Motherboard. Along with some new Corsair Vengeance 32gb ram and a WD SN750 NVME. So here is my issue. Before doing the upgrade process this morning, I got on the phone with Microsoft to clarify if I would have to do a fresh...

hello, i just did a data transfer from may old ssd to new ssd. the new ssd can boot to windows now, but when i plug in the old ssd i cant boot to windows with that ssd, when i change the boot order in the bios i get a message that there is no proper boot drive. now i tried to wipe the whole boot...

How should I go about replacing my boot drive with another SSD that doesn't have windows yet? (I only have one M.2 slot) Should I download windows to my HDD and then just download windows on my new SSD? Thanks!

I have a new SSD I want to use as a main/boot drive, but right now I ONLY want to port the OS over. I'm still using the HDD and don't mind keeping all the other files on the HDD. I have a bunch of games and I don't want to spend an entire afternoon un- and re-installing 1.5 TB of them to the...

Hello, I want to get an SSD which I prefer nvme and durability like I want to use it for long time. Now what I saw these 3 are in my budget . But they are slightly differently priced in my country so please help me to choose among these 3 WD Blue SN550 250GB = $55 Corsair 240 GB MP510 = $60...

So I scrapped an old Alienware Aurora R3 for parts and my brother had JUST installed a new HDD in beforehand. 1. I was wondering if I would be able to use this Hard Drive in a new PC build right away. I went through Windows and already did a Fresh Reset. 2. If not, I'm buying an M.2 SSD for...

I am planning on switching from my i7 7700K and an MSI Z270A Pro TO an i7 9700K and a ROG Z390e Gaming motherboard. Is a windows reinstallation necessary or will the boot SSD be fine to plug back in? I may also plan to upgrade to an nvme as my boot drive but not sure what to do with the SSD...

Hey! I just got a new 500gb M.2, and I am hoping to move all of my files and Windows installation on my current 500gb SSD to my new M.2, and then wipe the old SSD to keep for storage. I'm not sure if I should migrate or clone the old drive, or if I should just do a fresh os instal. How would you...

This is my current storage setup: I have a 500GB HDD for Ubuntu and 1 TB HDD for windows, and the system is configured so that one startup I can choose which OS I want to boot to. I just ordered a 250GB SSD for a boot drive, and I have a spare 1TB HDD; I would like to have the following storage...

Hi, I just bought a nvme m.2 Samsung Evo 970 250gb ssd. I am looking to use the drive for booting windows and some games. How can I install windows to the drive? I looked into the matter beforehand and I don’t want to clone my hdd to my ssd because my ssd isn’t big enough to fit all the files...

Hi, My mobo/cpu died recently so im doing a mayor hardware change. Searching around forums I found that the best way is to do a fresh install of W10 when switching from intel to amd. However, I was using an ssd as a boot drive on my old build. If I reinstall W10 on this very drive does it mean...

I had around 400 or so .tmp folders in the root of my C drive and could only delete them by changing their permissions one-by-one. Getting annoyed at this, I looked up some solutions and ran a couple of commands in the command prompt. While I successfully deleted the files, I realized that I...

I bought the pc pre used and the boot drive is almost completely used up. 469 gbs are being used but when i check storage and other programs to see what is using it up i cant find what it is. Is there anyway I could just delete everything but keep the os and just start new? Also, when i check...

Hi, I know that there are quite similar questions to mine on here but I just had to make sure that it works for my specific lineup so please excuse me on that. So I recently got a whole new computer and the only thing that I kept was my GPU. I'm facing the problem that I want to clone my whole...

G'day, so right now I'm on windows 7 ultimate x64 and I am using my old system parts to write this as I just upgraded my system with new CPU, MOBO, RAM, COOLER and M.2 SSD. I already had a 120gb SSD and 1TB HDD, RX 580, etc. Before upgrading my RIG I updated my system to WIN 10 cuz my new 3rd...

I recently bought a 1TB SSD to replace my current 120GB SSD, and I've had absolute hell with copying my files over. Between cloning the drive and fresh installing windows and loading a backup, the closest I can get is having all of my files on my new SSD, but having them saved under a separate...

I recently installed a ssd (gave it letter D) and cloned my old hdd to it with Samsung data migration software Both are inside my PC as l want to keep hdd as storage/archive I changed boot priority to wbm <ssd name> But PC still boots from hdd ( task manager shows hdd under performance tab...

I spent hours trimming the fat on my windows boot drive so that I could clone it to my new SSD (only 250gb) and I have cloned it. Since my Windows boot drive ( C: drive ), is MBR format, I set up the SSD as a MBR format drive, then cloned the C: drive to it (for the cloning process I used EaseUS...