Windows 10 Boot partition not the same as system partition

maddim said:

I have made a win10 installation on a different HHD and apparently (I didn't understand it then) the boot manager was still in the old SSD for replacement drive.

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Should I understand that you didn't properly install Windows on the new HDD?
Disconnect all other disk drives and reinstall it.

livix07 said:

Should I understand that you didn't properly install Windows on the new HDD?
Disconnect all other disk drives and reinstall it.

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I did but the previous OS Win7 was on the SSD and so the boot manager located itself there. Now I want to relocate the boot manager to the OS drive of Win10.
I do not want to reinstall from new again the win 10 as I have made all my setting and files and programs and took me almost a month to complete it.

Can't I make it via the minitools partition or the partition tools of windows?

Hi

I've always had good luck with EasyBCD, and it's easy (as it says), to use but I haven't done what you are trying to do in a long time so it's not fresh in my mind. But if I remember correctly you only have to select, Change boot drive, Select the drive you want to boot to, and click go ahead or something like that, and it will do it automatically.

Read though this and see if it's what you are looking for.

https://neosmart.net/wiki/easybcd/basics/changing-the-boot-partition/

Make sure that the drive you want to boot to is ahead in the boot order in the Bios but after whatever removable media you want to be able to boot to i.e. your DVD drive.

It should be something like, 1 DVD drive, 2 Drive C:\, 3 other drives.

I just copied and pasted this in from another post I made below this one, someone else had the same issue a few days ago.

Mike

Thank you Mike. I have downloaded the Easybcd and it is like you say, but I was standing there for 1-2 minutes and finally didn't click it. I was not ready again for a non starting OS. The operation yes is simple but the "all automatically" is frightening me...
After all it is windows we are talking.
I have made a clone of the drive in case it doesn't work and test it but it didn't boot.
I know fairly my way with Boot HDD and sequence (my Bios has a boot override also) it might work though if I did it again.
the problem is that the home PC is in my toddler's room and working hours on it are very limited and cannot go as much as I will need. So my wife will end up with no PC for somedays if it will not go as plan and she needs it at the moment daily.
So I will wait probably the weekend to go ahead and give it a try or maybe I will postponed in it again.
The thing is the easybcd have another software easyre that are advertising that is very good to solve start up win problems of all nature. So even if it will not work I could fix it via this method. But it will cost 20$.
Another solution that I am thinking is to make a new HDD with the Win10 install in my computer (from scratch with no other HDD present) and then earse all files from it and copy the ones from my clone HDD. I think it might work but I am worried about hidden files not being copied. What do you think?

All I can tell you is that it has always worked for me, but you can always put in a clean hard drive, and install Windows on it with no other drives plugged in and know for sure where the boot sector will be.

That's what I did when I updated from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, I put in a new SSD unplugged the other drives and then installed Windows 10 on it. When I plugged the other drives back in it still booted to the new drive no problems, only then did I remove my Windows 8 installation from the old drive.

Things like this are a good reason to have a system image file, no matter what you screw up you can get everything back the was it was in a reasonable short period of time.

I use a free program called EaseUS Todo backup and recovery, it's free, and it's always worked for me. It has saved my from hours of messing around many times.

I finally done it the last weekend. Perfect. It worked. Thank you very much.