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    How To - Windows installed on old SSD drive wanting fresh install on NEW SSD drive...

    Howdy all, A quick question which i'm sure some bright spark on here will know the answer too. Not PC literate at all really. Desktop PC few years old, has a small SSD drive which has Windows installed automatically on it. I purchased a larger SSD drive. So, i want to exchange SSD drives and...
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    Windows 10 Troubleshooting New Hard Drive: Windows 10 Boot Issues and Access Problems

    When i tried to load my new harddrive this morning , it was on ages with the windows 10 logo flashing on and off . Before the computer turned itself off . I'm on the old drive at the moment . When i go into settings both drives are listed ,also in Disk Management both drives are shown . ( i...

  3. Windows 10 Progress report, Upgrading to 10...

    Hi I've already added this to as a note in some other posts, but I'm finally doing the reinstall of all my versions of Windows, working my way back up to Windows 10. So far I installed a new SSD to run W10 from, moved the connections around to get it on Disk 0, and got everything to show up in...
    • MikeHawthorne
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    • bored community configuration disk management factory restore falcon factory file system hardware installation new drive progress report reinstall ssd update upgrade windows 10 windows 8 windows 8.1
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Duplicate Disk Signature Question

    64-bit Win 7, Home Premium, SP1. I recently recovered my C: drive to a new drive (via Symantec SSR Anyware to a new computer) and kept the same disk id on the new drive. Now I want to use the old C: drive on my new system (as an additional data disk) but of course windows won't mount it because...
    • dmcmillen
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    • 64-bit c drive data recovery disk disk duplication disk management disk signature diskpart home premium id change mbr mounting new drive old drive reformat sp1 storage issues system drive windows 7 windows security
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Installation dependent on two hard drives?

    I wonder if someone can tell me what's going on here. I installed Windows 7 Pro (64 bit Upgrade edition) tonight. I have two hard drives in this system, one of which is old and has a Windows XP install on it. I was planning on retiring that drive, but I'd heard that if I kept in the computer...
    • CSP2
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    • boot issues device missing drive management dual boot edition upgrade hard drive hardware installation installation issues new drive old drive reboot serial number storage system drive troubleshooting upgrade windows 7 windows xp
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    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Did Windows 7 Use NTFS File System on New Drive Install?

    I'm just curious but for those of you who setup Windows 7 on a new drive and did a drive format and install did Windows 7 use NTFS file system? I read somewhere that there was going to be a new file system again, WinFS I believe.