Windows on both HDD and SSD?

[oriolesrock100]

I couldn't find any other similar forum posts, so here goes...

I previously had a 2 TB HDD with Windows installed on it under C:/. I got a 250 GB SSD so my computer wouldn't take >5 mins to start up. I'd like to keep the HDD, but alse have windows installed on the SSD along with maybe 1 or 2 games. I put everything important on an external hard drive, reset my computer completely, and followed a tutorial to clone windows to the SSD. It worked. However, now I have windows on both drives. When booting it up with both drives in though it uses the HDD's windows (which takes very long). When booting it up with only the SSD in and the HDD disconnected from the motherboard, it uses the SSD's windows (much faster). I'd like to keep both drives so I have more than 250 GB of storage if possible. The BIOS boot order seems to be in order, but I could be wrong about that.

P.S. the HDD windows drive is designated C:/ and the SSD windows drive is designated S:/ if that changes anything.

 

[oriolesrock100]

Also I'm going to bed, so don't be mad if I don't respond immediately. I'll check responses in the morning if there are any. Thanks again!

 

[kadec.a.mackinney]

maybe try and delete windows of of the hdd ? or just trial and error with the bios boot priority?

 

[D JAY Cva]

go to msconfig , under boot settings ... choose the windows that you want to boot as default. reboot .. it should solve the issue

 

[oriolesrock100]

maybe try and delete windows of of the hdd ? or just trial and error with the bios boot priority?

Sorry I'm kind of new to this, thanks for the response! I tried deleting the partition on the hard drive for windows but it wouldn't let me. It would however let me delete the SSD partition for windows. If there is another way please let me know.

 

[oriolesrock100]

D JAY Cva

When I get home, I can read the boot order off to you and maybe you can help me order them correctly, because I already tried reording it and it didn't seem to work.

 

[oriolesrock100]

D JAY Cva

Sorry, I seemed to misunderstand your response. The SSD windows version isn't showing up when both hard drives are in. It doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[D JAY Cva]

thats weird...

well you have few options...

- you can connect the HDD via sata to USB and delete the windows partition and reconnect to your pc
- make sure the boot option in bios is set to SSD and the HDD is boot is disabled
- reformat the HDD

 

[oriolesrock100]

thats weird...

well you have few options...

- you can connect the HDD via sata to USB and delete the windows partition and reconnect to your pc
- make sure the boot option in bios is set to SSD and the HDD is boot is disabled
- reformat the HDD

I should have let you guys know in the thread but yesterday I actually got it working. I'm not really sure how I did it, but I was messing around with the BIOS boot order, then I was able to just delete the HDD partition and the SSD was running windows. i'm just happy it's working now!