Re-Formatting Cloned Old Boot-Drive

Taintedmind · May 14, 2019

I was looking to clone/mirror image my current OS onto a SSD, but I was informed (and learned the hard way) that booting w/2 identical OS's can/will corrupt one or both of the drives (my case was both). Once the data/OS has been transferred to the new SSD, how am I able to re-format the old SSHD to use as a second drive for videogames? If there're multiple ways, please post those so I can look at various options; thanks in advance.

kidroc666 · May 15, 2019

No it should not do that you can not boot from two drives at once!!! you just set the new drive to be the boot drive and then in windows you format the old!!! i've done it this way for years never ever heard of this it's not true something else happened when you did the clone...

Taintedmind · May 15, 2019

7 hours ago, kidroc666 said:

No it should not do that you can not boot from two drives at once!!! you just set the new drive to be the boot drive and then in windows you format the old!!! i've done it this way for years never ever heard of this it's not true something else happened when you did the clone...

It's also stated in the Acronis Image tutorial, but it stated that only one drive will become corrupt and not both. Both of mine just went into a boot loop, instead of a BSoD, which's what they've stated. I'm not sure what happened or why the initial drive had an issue, whatsoever. It should've only hurt the second drive that was cloned and not the one being cloned.