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| Thread ID: 145441 | 2017-11-04 04:46:00 | Migrated Windows 10 to SSD - it works but Windows still thinks its on the old disk | Monkeywrench (15484) | Press F1 |
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| 1441527 | 2017-11-04 04:46:00 | I recently upgraded my Windows 10 PC to a 128Gb SSD. I followed some instructions I found online to clone my C: drive and move it to the SSD (F:). I changed the boot order in my BIOS to ensure the SSD booted first & everything worked fine. I got a nice fast boot up. :-) I hit a snag when I tried to format C: drive. I received the following message: "You cannot format this volume..." It says Windows will stop working. How can I persuade Windows that it is in fact booting from F: drive? |
Monkeywrench (15484) | ||
| 1441528 | 2017-11-04 05:04:00 | Unplug the original drive and connect only the new one. That, and Windows 10 will always report the drive it's booting from as drive C:, even if it's not the first one. |
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| 1441529 | 2017-11-04 05:17:00 | Odds are you are not completely booting from the SSD, if you were as PCuser said it'd be the C: drive. Try it with just the SSD and see if it boots ok, if it does there are various ways to clean out your old one - connect it once windows is already running and use disk manager, boot off a linux disk or partitioning tool and do it from there, boot off a windows install disk and delete the partitions, etc. EaseUS has a good tool that'll do it, you may have to make a bootable disk though to get around windows limitations https://www.partition-tool.com/ |
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