Question Boot partition on the wrong disk

[kacper6768]

If there were two hard drives connected to the computer, one SSD for Windows 10 and the other HDD for data, and if the system was installed normally on the SSD, but the Windows 10 boot partition was installed on the HDD instead of on the SSD, would it be possible to move it? It's best to prevent such situations and disconnect the HDD during Windows installation, but what if it already happened?

Where would the boot partition be created if there was only 1 disk already partitioned. What if Windows XP was already installed on the first C: partition and the second D: partition was prepared for Windows 10 and there was no unallocated space to create a boot partition? Would Windows 10 then use the C: partition from Windows XP as the system partition and add the boot files to it?

 

[Zerk2012]

If there were two hard drives connected to the computer, one SSD for Windows 10 and the other HDD for data, and if the system was installed normally on the SSD, but the Windows 10 boot partition was installed on the HDD instead of on the SSD, would it be possible to move it? It's best to prevent such situations and disconnect the HDD during Windows installation, but what if it already happened?

Where would the boot partition be created if there was only 1 disk already partitioned. What if Windows XP was already installed on the first C: partition and the second D: partition was prepared for Windows 10 and there was no unallocated space to create a boot partition? Would Windows 10 then use the C: partition from Windows XP as the system partition and add the boot files to it?

I don't think you can just move it. Windows should be installed with only the one drive installed.

 

[hotaru.hino]

You can't move it, but you can make a new one on the drive you want it on, provided you also get rid of the old boot loader. The instructions reference Vista and 7, but they still work: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/p...ndows-7/ee829683(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

 

[TerryLaze]

You can't move it, but you can make a new one on the drive you want it on, provided you also get rid of the old boot loader.

You can also move it (if it is an actual boot partition so it only has a few hundred megabytes) although I do agree that making a new one is the right approach.
Moving it makes no sense, it's way too hard and there is no benefit for doing it.

Where would the boot partition be created if there was only 1 disk already partitioned. What if Windows XP was already installed on the first C: partition and the second D: partition was prepared for Windows 10 and there was no unallocated space to create a boot partition? Would Windows 10 then use the C: partition from Windows XP as the system partition and add the boot files to it?

Windows only makes a boot partition if the disk is clean, if there are already partitions on the disk then it will put the boot files on whichever disk and partition shows up as the first one in the bios. That's your systems boot drive so that's where the boot files will go.