How To Designate Main Drive?

[mrjordann]

hey everyone! Thanks to everyone who's been helping me with my SSD issues today. I hope this is the last problem.

So I cloned my old SSD to my new one, because I got an upgrade. Seemed to work. When I go to BIOS and change the boot order, I put the new SSD first. For some reason, though, I still boots the old SSD up for my main drive! Can somebody please tell me why? I appreciate all the help I can get. thanks!

 

Motherboard/BIOS: Gigabyte Z97X-SOC FORCE Ultra-Durable

[exercutor5]

There's this vital partition that Windows uses to boot, if this partition is not cloned over from the old drive to the new, the computer will still boot up your old drive, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Can you post a screenshot of your disk management window? I haven't done this cloning thing in a while.

[Captain_WD]

3 hours ago, mrjordann said:

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Hey there

 

As @exercutor5 pointed out, you may have missed out the boot partition from the old SSD. I'd try to boot the system without the old SSD plugged in and see if everything runs smoothly. 

 

How are you sure the system is booting from the old SSD? Could you post a screenshot from the Disk Management?

 

Did you extend the existing partition on the new SSD over the leftover unallocated portion? I'd recommend booting from the new SSD, connecting the old one externally and then wiping the boot and the OS partitions from it, making sure it's clean and safe to operate as a secondary drive.

 

Captain_WD.

[mrjordann]

14 hours ago, exercutor5 said:

There's this vital partition that Windows uses to boot, if this partition is not cloned over from the old drive to the new, the computer will still boot up your old drive, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Can you post a screenshot of your disk management window? I haven't done this cloning thing in a while.

Sorry for the late reply, here's my Disk Management window. 

[mrjordann]

11 hours ago, Captain_WD said:

 

Hey there

 

As @exercutor5 pointed out, you may have missed out the boot partition from the old SSD. I'd try to boot the system without the old SSD plugged in and see if everything runs smoothly. 

 

How are you sure the system is booting from the old SSD? Could you post a screenshot from the Disk Management?

 

Did you extend the existing partition on the new SSD over the leftover unallocated portion? I'd recommend booting from the new SSD, connecting the old one externally and then wiping the boot and the OS partitions from it, making sure it's clean and safe to operate as a secondary drive.

 

Captain_WD.

Yes, I extended the partition on the new SSD. I've included two pictures... The first one is my Disk Management window, and the second one is what happens when I boot it after taking the old SSD out. Obviously, if I take the old one out, it can't boot from it.

[exercutor5]

From your picture, it seems that your boot partition is still on your old SSD.

[mrjordann]

24 minutes ago, exercutor5 said:

From your picture, it seems that your boot partition is still on your old SSD.

I do see what you're saying. How would I fix this?

[exercutor5]

2 hours ago, mrjordann said:

I do see what you're saying. How would I fix this?

Erm, what program did you use to clone your drive over again?

[Blake]

connect windows install disk/usb

goto command promtp

Bootrec.exe /fixmbr

Bootrec.exe /fixboot

Bootrec.exe /scanos

Bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

Reboot

 

see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927392 read it (as you may or may not need to use all the switches).

 

[Captain_WD]

11 hours ago, mrjordann said:

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I would try plugging the new SSD in the port of the old one and remove all other storage devices from the system and see if the results is the same. you may need to repeat the cloning procedure and to make sure you include everything. 

 

Captain_WD.