Cloned drive works, but new drive had 2 separate drive letters

[ghmj07]

Hi,

I went from a 64GB Kingston SSD to a 250GB Samsung SSD on my Windows 7 desktop. I used Macrium free edition to clone the old Kingston to the new Samsung using a USB SATA docking station.

Initially I had trouble booting from the new drive, but I found a HDD boot order option, changed the new SSD to 1, and now it boots up fine.

However, I've noticed the new SSD has 2 drive letters. For disk 0, the system is F:, and Windows is C:.

F: is 100MB and healthy (primary partition). C: is 233GB and healthy (system, boot, page file, active, crash dump, primary partition).

I don't remember this from the original drive. Is this anything I need to fix?

 

[RealBeast]

The 100MB is the system reserved partition, and is usually not given a drive letter if properly cloned. Unless you want to do it all over again I would just use it as is since it will not cause any issues as long as you just leave the F partition alone.

 

[ghmj07]

The 100MB is the system reserved partition, and is usually not given a drive letter if properly cloned. Unless you want to do it all over again I would just use it as is since it will not cause any issues as long as you just leave the F partition alone.

Just a few minutes ago, after some googling, I used Windows Disk Management, right-clicked the system reserved partition, and removed the drive letter. I rebooted a couple of times to make sure it stuck, and it seems to have worked. I now have disk 0 with the 2 partitions, the system reserved partition has no drive letter, and the main participation is C:

Thanks for replying!

 

[RealBeast]

Sure, glad that all is well -- and welcome to the forums! 😀