Hello..
I have a problem I can't seem to crack! I have more than 2 drives in my PC 3 of them are SSD and a couple of HDD's.
I am running out of space on my 550 GB ssd C drive, so I bought a new Samsung Evo 860 1 TB SSD.
First some specs:
MB = ASUS SabertoothFX990 R2.0
Windows 10 - build 18362
16 GB Ram
BIOS - UEFI
But I want to explain my old configuration because it was a bit screwed up (but somehow worked!).
1) I have my VERY first SSD - a 250 GB Crucial SSD that had the 100 MB System Partition... and it pointed to a partition On another disk where my Windows C: lives.
When I Installed current Windows C drive a few years ago.. I apparently neglected to move the System Partition with it..
2 So my goal is to fix this rat's nest.. So that the System partition and my Windows 10 C Partition live on the same disk as my Windows OS.
3) So this was my stratagy: I cloned the first SSD onto my new 1TB SSD .. so that the System partition is preserved and I Disconnected my old Crucial SSD (for the time being).
Success! My New drive Boots up.. and it's still able to point to my C drive and boot up windows... 1/2 way there!
4) My next step was to Remove the other Partition (not system boot partition) cloned on to my new drive.. Not a problem: (It's all on my disconnected SSD. I can retrieve that later. )
5) Following that.. I cloned my Current Windows C partition to the un-allocated space on my New SSD and extended it ... so Now I have (roughly) 930 total GB .. half of which is filled with my windows C: contents. ( I AM wondering.. 1 TB? where is the other 70 GB's? whatever! )
All well and good... I am sorry it took so long to get to my question: Here it is.
The Bootloader works.. It starts up Windows on my (nearly full) Windows C drive) . HOW do I change the system bootloader it so that it starts up my Cloned Windows partition on the Same New SSD?
I am going to attempt to paste my Disk Management image here for illustration (google drive image - let me know if you can't see it):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TUdkqXgSyeHNRCizdQ75NZHI4Wl7qb8d
I have a problem I can't seem to crack! I have more than 2 drives in my PC 3 of them are SSD and a couple of HDD's.
I am running out of space on my 550 GB ssd C drive, so I bought a new Samsung Evo 860 1 TB SSD.
First some specs:
MB = ASUS SabertoothFX990 R2.0
Windows 10 - build 18362
16 GB Ram
BIOS - UEFI
But I want to explain my old configuration because it was a bit screwed up (but somehow worked!).
1) I have my VERY first SSD - a 250 GB Crucial SSD that had the 100 MB System Partition... and it pointed to a partition On another disk where my Windows C: lives.
When I Installed current Windows C drive a few years ago.. I apparently neglected to move the System Partition with it..
2 So my goal is to fix this rat's nest.. So that the System partition and my Windows 10 C Partition live on the same disk as my Windows OS.
3) So this was my stratagy: I cloned the first SSD onto my new 1TB SSD .. so that the System partition is preserved and I Disconnected my old Crucial SSD (for the time being).
Success! My New drive Boots up.. and it's still able to point to my C drive and boot up windows... 1/2 way there!
4) My next step was to Remove the other Partition (not system boot partition) cloned on to my new drive.. Not a problem: (It's all on my disconnected SSD. I can retrieve that later. )
5) Following that.. I cloned my Current Windows C partition to the un-allocated space on my New SSD and extended it ... so Now I have (roughly) 930 total GB .. half of which is filled with my windows C: contents. ( I AM wondering.. 1 TB? where is the other 70 GB's? whatever! )
All well and good... I am sorry it took so long to get to my question: Here it is.
The Bootloader works.. It starts up Windows on my (nearly full) Windows C drive) . HOW do I change the system bootloader it so that it starts up my Cloned Windows partition on the Same New SSD?
I am going to attempt to paste my Disk Management image here for illustration (google drive image - let me know if you can't see it):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TUdkqXgSyeHNRCizdQ75NZHI4Wl7qb8d
- Disk 0 - Ignore that.. It's a big HDD split into 3 parts ... Nothing to do with this issue..
- Disk 1 - A) - My New SSD 1 reserved partition.. (hesistate to remove it), B) - My EFI System partition (which works!) , C) 4th partition - The cloned contents of my C (windows) drive.. .extended to use the rest of the free storage
- Disk 2 - My (current) C drive ... Almost full (34 GB free) sucessfully boots from my System partition.