I built this computer last year and installed Windows 10 onto a ssd without a hitch. I use a hard drive for regular storage. I pulled apart an old (nonworking) laptop, took out its hard drive, and I decided that I would get access to its contents by just plugging it in place of the current hard drive, transferring what files I wanted to keep onto my ssd then onto my new hard drive.
This worked for a bit as I swapped the hard drives multiple times and windows would effortlessly boot up from my ssd like normal. Then the last time I did it, I used a data recovery program on my laptop hard drive to search for pictures that I deleted (which I found). Then I was finally done with the laptop hard drive. As I plugged in my ssd and started my computer, I watched as it didn't boot up super quick like normal. In fact it was looping the windows load screen.
Long story short, I'm at my wits end scouring forums for the fix for this. I discovered that somehow partitions were created on my newer hard drive for Windows boot manager and recovery. I finally got to the point where I used diskpart to delete all of the partitions on the new HDD except for the regular use one. Now I'm stuck without being able to boot windows due to my ssd not having a boot manager I assume. I checked to see if my ssd still had all of the windows files, it does, by just using my laptops Had's windows 7 to check the ssd.
So, please help! Or even tell me what I need if I'm wrong!
This worked for a bit as I swapped the hard drives multiple times and windows would effortlessly boot up from my ssd like normal. Then the last time I did it, I used a data recovery program on my laptop hard drive to search for pictures that I deleted (which I found). Then I was finally done with the laptop hard drive. As I plugged in my ssd and started my computer, I watched as it didn't boot up super quick like normal. In fact it was looping the windows load screen.
Long story short, I'm at my wits end scouring forums for the fix for this. I discovered that somehow partitions were created on my newer hard drive for Windows boot manager and recovery. I finally got to the point where I used diskpart to delete all of the partitions on the new HDD except for the regular use one. Now I'm stuck without being able to boot windows due to my ssd not having a boot manager I assume. I checked to see if my ssd still had all of the windows files, it does, by just using my laptops Had's windows 7 to check the ssd.
So, please help! Or even tell me what I need if I'm wrong!
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