- Apr 16, 2015
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Hi All,
Can't seem to find a summary - and it's been a while, hoping somebody can assist.
Long story short, two drives were installed during original W10 install. One is no longer detected (as far as I can deduce, it's dead - but haven't been able to try on another MB yet) and as a result, the remaining SSD doesn't boot & I need to add a boot partition.
Personally, I'd just nuke & reinstall .... but this is for a friend and their backup procedures are pretty much non-existent & things like software passwords are saved in a Word doc.... also local (sigh!)
I believe in the past I've done it via DISKPART..... but don't recall if I needed to boot from a USB installer & run CMD from there, or if it was done from within another working W10 drive. Ideally I'd do it from a USB installer, but can do either way.
Appreciate any assistance.
Can't seem to find a summary - and it's been a while, hoping somebody can assist.
Long story short, two drives were installed during original W10 install. One is no longer detected (as far as I can deduce, it's dead - but haven't been able to try on another MB yet) and as a result, the remaining SSD doesn't boot & I need to add a boot partition.
Personally, I'd just nuke & reinstall .... but this is for a friend and their backup procedures are pretty much non-existent & things like software passwords are saved in a Word doc.... also local (sigh!)
I believe in the past I've done it via DISKPART..... but don't recall if I needed to boot from a USB installer & run CMD from there, or if it was done from within another working W10 drive. Ideally I'd do it from a USB installer, but can do either way.
Appreciate any assistance.
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