[SOLVED] There's a Win10 logo above my HDD, yet i've changed the Boot Priority to my SSD?

[Dylan202]

I want to launch Win10 from SSD. I cloned all the files from my HDD to SSD. Restarted, launched BIOS, changed priority to SSD. Was about to delete old Windows but the Logo is still there, so i cant rename the File and delete it from the Disk Clean Up. What should I do ?

 

[Dylan202]

I went to optimise drives and it says that now my C: Drive is an SSD and my D: drive is a HDD. is it normal for the letters to switch?

 

[USAFRet]

You did the end of the clone process wrong.

I don't know what you did with "optimize", but that was probably not needed.

The C -D drive thing?
Whatever the system boots from will be the C drive.



But....at the end of the clone process, the very first thing you needed to do was power OFF, disconnect the old drive, power up with ONLY the new drive connected?
Did you do that?

 

[Dylan202]

You did the end of the clone process wrong.

I don't know what you did with "optimize", but that was probably not needed.

The C -D drive thing?
Whatever the system boots from will be the C drive.



But....at the end of the clone process, the very first thing you needed to do was power OFF, disconnect the old drive, power up with ONLY the new drive connected?
Did you do that?

Yeah. I just did it again and i now see that its labelled as a C Drive. Is it okay to delete the windows from the old HDD then ?

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah. I just did it again and i now see that its labelled as a C Drive. Is it okay to delete the windows from the old HDD then ?

Well, maybe.

Have you verified that the system boots with ONLY the new drive connected?

 

[Dylan202]

Well, maybe.

Have you verified that the system boots with ONLY the new drive connected?

If you mean when the old ones disconnected then yeah I have

 

[USAFRet]

If you mean when the old ones disconnected then yeah I have

Is there anything on the old drive you need to keep, that does not exist elsewhere?

 

[Dylan202]

Is there anything on the old drive you need to keep, that does not exist elsewhere?

Dont think so since i cloned everything. I want to uninstall games and apps from the HDD and keep the regular files on there insteae but i assume i have to do that manually

 

[USAFRet]

Dont think so since i cloned everything. I want to uninstall games and apps from the HDD and keep the regular files on there insteae but i assume i have to do that manually

Since everything exists on the cloned drive, the best way forward is to clean that whole HDD completely. All partitions and reformat.
Then, move things over to it, and use as you please.

 

[Dylan202]

Since everything exists on the cloned drive, the best way forward is to clean that whole HDD completely. All partitions and reformat.
Then, move things over to it, and use as you please.

Alright thank you so much, is there something built in to windows that can clean the HDD for me, or do i need to download another software ?

 

[USAFRet]

Alright thank you so much, is there something built in to windows that can clean the HDD for me, or do i need to download another software ?

Commandline function diskpart, and the clean command.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/format-hard-drive-command-prompt,37632.html
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html
https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/...-a-drive-through-the-command-prompt-005929en/

 

[Dylan202]

Commandline function diskpart, and the clean command.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/format-hard-drive-command-prompt,37632.html
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html
https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/...-a-drive-through-the-command-prompt-005929en/

It worked, thank you