issues setting up new primary drive

Spudwrench

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Mar 21, 2016
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Hey guys so I have a PC I built about a year ago. Everything was new except for the hard drives. They were pulled from a few older computers that got donated to me. I used a 120gb 5400 Laptop sata drive that I boot from and I also have a 500gb Drive that was loaded with windows 7 and programs.

When I got the 120gb hard drive I was told it was a solid state drive and due to its size I didn't think nothing about it and set it up thinking it would boot faster. Obviously since its a older 5400 rpm laptop drive windows load time and file exploring is kind of slow.

I purchased a new Seagate 2tb hard drive installed it and it received G: designation in Windows. After some research I used Macrium Reflect software to Clone my C: drive to new G: drive and my plans was to just use the 2tb drive as my primary as well as boot drive. I thought if I simply cloned the Drive I could disable the C drive in disk management and Format but then I remembered that the 120gb drive is what windows loads from and its searching for the 500gb drive. I figured this out when it woudnt boot once I unplugged the 500gb drive.

I am not sure how I go about setting this up.My goal is I want to be able to boot form the 2tb drive I just got and remove the old laptop drive and have the 500gb drive for my phone backup data. I really don't have enough time to do a complete wipe and reinstall everything fresh.

Its been since the Dos Days that I have messed with hard drives and I couldn't find any info on how I could correct this.

120gb Drive is F:
500gb Drive is C:
2tb Drive is G
 
Your description of the issue is a bit puzzling.
At the end of your post you list your drives and you show your 500 GB HDD is your boot (C:\) drive. Yet you say "the 120gb drive is what windows loads from". If your 500 GB HDD is your boot drive - then it's your boot drive, no?

Anyway, would not a simple disk-cloning operation involving cloning the contents of your 500 GB HDD to your 2 TB HDD resolve your dilemma?

Just let me add that the above is predicated on the proposition that your 500 GB HDD boots & functions without problems. If that is NOT the case you can forget the above.
 


I can go into advanced settings in uefi / bios and click with mouse on any drive or device that shows up in the boot menu. After I cloned the drive. One of the things I tried was restarting the pc and booting from the cloned drive specifically it would fail and pull up windows error message bout wouldn't get me a option to repair windows.

After this I used a windows recovery drive I created from Macrium Reflect software previously to cloning the main drive. Once this loaded I tried to rewrite the MBR data and selected the new drive and it fails everytime. Not sure what the issue is.