Question Windows Boot Manager

[fatalshot808]

Hello

I was wondering if it is possible to remove windows boot manager from my D drive and put it on my C drive. I have windows installed on both my C and D drive but I need my D drive for my laptop. When I remove my D drive windows will not boot it goes to a black screen and says BOOTMGR missing or something like that.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yes, you totally can.

Tutorial | How to Move Windows Boot Partition to A New Drive

You can get an effective method to move the Windows 10, 8.1, 8, or 7 boot partition to a new drive. If you cannot boot Windows system generally due to a system disk error or the system disk fails to boot with a non-system error, follow the steps below to move the Windows boot partition to a new...

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However, I would HIGHLY recommend that you simply remove the D drive and do a clean install of Windows on the primary drive because even recreating the boot partition from an existing one can still result in some discrepancies when it comes to the configuration data. You can do it, but doing a clean install with only TWO drives connected, the drive you are installing TO and the drive you are installing FROM, is the absolute better way to do things if you want any assurance of there probably not being any related issues later.

 

[Darkbreeze]

And in case you'd PREFER to do a CLEAN install, here is a good guide for that.

Clean Install Windows 11 Tutorial

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[fatalshot808]

Yes, you totally can.

Tutorial | How to Move Windows Boot Partition to A New Drive

You can get an effective method to move the Windows 10, 8.1, 8, or 7 boot partition to a new drive. If you cannot boot Windows system generally due to a system disk error or the system disk fails to boot with a non-system error, follow the steps below to move the Windows boot partition to a new...

www.easeus.com

However, I would HIGHLY recommend that you simply remove the D drive and do a clean install of Windows on the primary drive because even recreating the boot partition from an existing one can still result in some discrepancies when it comes to the configuration data. You can do it, but doing a clean install with only TWO drives connected, the drive you are installing TO and the drive you are installing FROM, is the absolute better way to do things if you want any assurance of there probably not being any related issues later.

I'll try to move the boot disk manager to the C drive and the only reason is I would have to have my nephew reinstall all his games and he plays quite a few. If all fails with that I will do a clean install on that with just having to redownload some of his games.

My D drive is just an old NVME drive I used to use but I got too lazy to format it so I used it to install some games and what not lol.

Your tips were very helpful. I really appreciate you reaching out to me and thank you for your help!

 

[Darkbreeze]

You are for sure welcome and if you are unsure about anything or have questions, feel free to ask. That is what we volunteer here to do honestly.