Hello everyone i was messing around with my storage and cloned my primary boot drive and now everything has spilled over my new ssd and i have 2 identical boot drives that i don't need how do i delete one, it is for some reason unavailable for deletion
Please show us a screencap of your current Disk Management window.
After the clone process, did you physically disconnect the old drive and boot up from only the NEW drive?
If not, do that now.
Not tricky, if we knew which drives were what.It's going to be tricky, to solve you might want to keep all drives connected and boot from the windows setup of an usb (this is how I would solve it) not knowing witch drive is actually booting is going to make it harder to resolve, Suggest to find out witch drive is witch 1st or decide witch to keep if it's working and remove the working one then boot into setup and wipe the other, then reinstall the working drive again and all should be good to boot and just have to partition the wiped drive again.
Sure thing, just some ideas, maybe to op is trying something now and cant come back to the forums for info right away, got to wait it out.Not tricky, if we knew which drives were what.
Awaiting further info from the OP.
A screencap of your Disk Management window is needed.after messing around some more and reinstalling windows it has migrated onto my ssd whilst pretending to be a separate hdd, i deleted the clones i did not need but still have system backups i want to integrate, i think it all worked out but i am not 100 percent sure, also how do i attach a image i only see a way to attach images from the web, i know which drive my windows was on a Samsung hdd now it's on a ssd as a separate partition and the only thing populating the hdd are system reserved partitions, after shutting down my pc and selecting the ssd with the windows partition as a primary boot source it booted into windows effortlessly, now the only question remaining is the back ups and system reserved partitions on the Samsung hhd and if i really need them
View: https://imgur.com/a/s5TxzFL
, i mean i am fine with having the samsung just sit the system is still even with this mess a lot faster than before
I will admit i did bite a lot more than i can chew, and my unhealthy obsession with adding more and more drives does not help, but you guys have been a great helpSorry I'm not more of a help in resolving your issue, but to avoid this mess that you are now stuck
with unless you follow what is mentioned in above posts, this is exactly the type of mess best avoided.
I have always gone through great effort to resolve these type of storage issues on my own pc pronto, no matter how confusing or hard it might be at the time, because if you don't at some point in the future when making other storage changes or perhaps reinstalling or removing or adding drives you will again face problems that will hinder your as of objective.
did what you said. deleted the previous one,Shouldn't have deleted that small 499MB partition in the first place.
Now you'll have to recreate it.
Execute from elevated command prompt. Regular command prompt will give error on last step.
If you get any errors, then stop immediately.
diskpartselect disk 1list partitioncreate partition primaryformat fs=ntfs quickactiveassign letter=Jexitbcdboot C:\windows /s J:
Last message should be "Boot files created successfully."
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Wrong syntax.did what you said. deleted the previous one,
Wrong syntax.
createapartition primary
In future - if you get an error, then do not run the next command.
For example here you could have formatted some partition with data on it.
This time you got lucky, because no partition was selected.