Hi everyone,
Setting
Recently I sent my laptop back for repair, it turned out my D: drive (HDD) was faulty.
Before sending my computer out for repairs i made a system image, hoping I could get back to it when my laptop returned.
When the laptop returned I used the system image to restore the previous installation + files.
However upon finishing the system image I noticed the computer was running quite slowly.
It turned out that Windows is now installed on the HDD, which previously was my D: drive, and my SSD is now my D: drive.
I don't know if this would cause significant driver issues, but i guessed both the HDD and SSD wouldn't like it.
Furthermore my SSD is around 500 GB in storage, and my HDD is around 1TB in storage.
I am not sure what exactly caused the following problem, but my HDD now also has a 500 GB partition I can't acces or repartition using diskmanagement.
So after I found out the driver letters were swapped, i tried a system restore. Hoping I could install Windows 10 on the SDD this way.
I wasn't able to install Windows 10 in my SSD, when trying to install from a USB recovery drive it kept giving errors when choosing the SSD.
What i have done so far
I would like to swap back my C: and D: drive, so that I am able to use the system image that I made.
Note
I found an article from microsoft about changing the C: Drive letter.
However because it involves editing the register in a significant way I felt hesitant to go down this road.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/backup-and-storage/restore-system-boot-drive-letter
Also the newly installed HDD seems to exactly the same as the standard issue the laptop came with.
So i suppose using a system image shouldn't cause any trouble.
System Information
Setting
Recently I sent my laptop back for repair, it turned out my D: drive (HDD) was faulty.
Before sending my computer out for repairs i made a system image, hoping I could get back to it when my laptop returned.
When the laptop returned I used the system image to restore the previous installation + files.
However upon finishing the system image I noticed the computer was running quite slowly.
It turned out that Windows is now installed on the HDD, which previously was my D: drive, and my SSD is now my D: drive.
I don't know if this would cause significant driver issues, but i guessed both the HDD and SSD wouldn't like it.
Furthermore my SSD is around 500 GB in storage, and my HDD is around 1TB in storage.
I am not sure what exactly caused the following problem, but my HDD now also has a 500 GB partition I can't acces or repartition using diskmanagement.
So after I found out the driver letters were swapped, i tried a system restore. Hoping I could install Windows 10 on the SDD this way.
I wasn't able to install Windows 10 in my SSD, when trying to install from a USB recovery drive it kept giving errors when choosing the SSD.

What i have done so far
- I tried multiple times to reinstall windows 10 seeing if I could fix the problems I had via system restore. (Doing this has made the partitions a total mess.)
- I tried using a USB recovery drive.
- I tried changing the drive letter in diskmanagment
- I tried moving and deleting partitions in diskmanagment (I am not allowed to delete EFI-system images)
- I tried increasing the size of a partition (Only the option for reducing size is available.
I would like to swap back my C: and D: drive, so that I am able to use the system image that I made.
Note
I found an article from microsoft about changing the C: Drive letter.
However because it involves editing the register in a significant way I felt hesitant to go down this road.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/backup-and-storage/restore-system-boot-drive-letter
Also the newly installed HDD seems to exactly the same as the standard issue the laptop came with.
So i suppose using a system image shouldn't cause any trouble.
System Information
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19044) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Language: Dutch (Regional Setting: Dutch)
System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: GF75 Thin 10SCXR
BIOS: E17F4IMS.102 (type: UEFI)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz (12 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM