Question Hard drives not matching the assigned drives after HDD installation? **Edited

[avataranonymous]

**Edited to fix a typo & Add HDD

In 2021 I installed an 2TB HDD to help with random freezes that came out of nowhere on my old 500 GB HD. I kept the HDD as backup drive when I installed the 2TB HDD. However, the issue did not resolve as I still get a 100% C: Drive usage in my resource manager performance tab while my processes tab displays nothing at that usage.

Upon inspecting my drives, I am under the impression an error was made as the drives do not seem to match.

Attached are 2 instances where disk drive is at 100 percent. A pic of disk management. Note - C: Drive is listed as the SDD and not as an HDD?.

Attached gallery for trouble shooting

Stats:
OS: Windows 10 Home 64
MOBO: https://www.newegg.com/msi-b450m-a-pro-max-ii/p/N82E16813144635?Item=N82E16813144635

2T HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache – Frustration Free Packaging (ST2000DM008/ST2000DMZ08)

500 GB HD:
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

 

[USAFRet]

What specific drives and motherboard are involved here?
Make/model, please

 

[Rokinamerica]

Did you add a SSD to the existing HDD, or replace the HDD with the SSD and then add the HDD as the storage (D) drive?

 

[avataranonymous]

What specific drives and motherboard are involved here?
Make/model, please

Updated- thank you,

 

[avataranonymous]

Did you add a SSD to the existing HDD, or replace the HDD with the SSD and then add the HDD as the storage (D) drive?

If memory serves right (a friend had helped at the time,) he reinstalled Windows 10 to the new drive via copying image of the previous drive. Then added the old 500 Gb Hd

 

[USAFRet]

If memory serves right (a friend had helped at the time,) he reinstalled Windows 10 to the new drive via copying image of the previous drive. Then added the old 500 Gb Hd

Thats not the way "cloning" works.

There are specific tools and procedures to move an OS to a different drive.
Simply copying is not it.

 

[USAFRet]

And even with a proper clone operation, a source drive that has issues...you're just moving the issues to a different drive.

 

[avataranonymous]

Thats not the way "cloning" works.

There are specific tools and procedures to move an OS to a different drive.
Simply copying is not it.

Right - I am brashly paraphrasing the gist of what I recalled him doing for context clues on what he exactly did. Not providing the full instructions.

"And even with a proper clone operation, a source drive that has issues...you're just moving the issues to a different drive."

The 500 HD drive is 14 years old, started to show symptoms halfway thru that so I believe this is an error from aging hardware, and to my knowledge that cannot be moved to a new drive,

 

[USAFRet]

The 500 HD drive is 14 years old, started to show symptoms halfway thru that so I believe this is an error from aging hardware, and to my knowledge that cannot be moved to a new drive,

A failing drive may result in corrupted data.

Cloning simply moved that corruption to the new drive.

Maybe.


But...powering off and removing the 500GB drive, does anything change?