I'm trying to upgrade my boot SSD, from a an old 128gb to a 1tb I picked up for a decent price. My build also has a 2tb Seagate HDD that I use for most of my storage. Figured it'd be relatively straightforward to follow a drive cloning guide and swap in the larger SSD, and keep the HDD.
Full Disclosure: Built this pc a while ago, and made the classic error of installing Windows with two drives attached, so while the SSD is the Boot, there's a System Reserved partition on the HDD.
As a result, straight cloning the Boot SSD on to the new SSD didn't work, and I've done a (correct) fresh install of Windows on the new SSD, which boots fine by itself. When I reconnect the HDD (same SATA), though, it gets detected in BIOS but not Disk Management (no dice on the refresh/rescan/driver update) or anything else. When I pull the new SSD/Windows install and put the old Boot SSD in with the HDD it all works fine.
Does anyone know a way that I can get the new Windows install to detect the HDD, or should I just bite the bullet, reformat it and get the files from backup?
Full Disclosure: Built this pc a while ago, and made the classic error of installing Windows with two drives attached, so while the SSD is the Boot, there's a System Reserved partition on the HDD.
As a result, straight cloning the Boot SSD on to the new SSD didn't work, and I've done a (correct) fresh install of Windows on the new SSD, which boots fine by itself. When I reconnect the HDD (same SATA), though, it gets detected in BIOS but not Disk Management (no dice on the refresh/rescan/driver update) or anything else. When I pull the new SSD/Windows install and put the old Boot SSD in with the HDD it all works fine.
Does anyone know a way that I can get the new Windows install to detect the HDD, or should I just bite the bullet, reformat it and get the files from backup?