Hi
I really don' get why Windows does't automatically make Drive C:\ the boot drive.
Normally whatever drive you boot into becomes C, if you dual boot both drives show up as C:\ when you boot into them.
Have you looked at Disk Management to see if it will allow you to rename Drive J to Drive C?
You will have to change C:\ to some unused letter first.
I just checked and my computer seems to be willing to let me change my C:\ drive to anything I want.
I didn't do it, so I don't know what would happen if I did but I assume it wold just show a new drive letter but still boot the same.
Just right click on the drive in Disk Management and select, "Change Drive Letter and Paths".
This doesn't involve moving anything just changing the name of the drive, and will move the paths to the new location. I'm not sure this would't cause boot issues!!!
But my personal experience has been that I can shuffle the letters around any way I want and it still knows where everything is.
A screen shot of your Disk Management Windows would be he helpful.
If you have a empty C:\ drive maybe you should just do a clean install of Windows 10 on it and start over.
Just be sure that all of the data on the computer is backed up before you start messing around with it.
if you have Windows 10 installed and authenticated you don't have to got through the whole updating thing again, once you have signed in with your Microsoft account you should be able to install it anytime and just log in with your account when it boot up.
Mike
I really don' get why Windows does't automatically make Drive C:\ the boot drive.
Normally whatever drive you boot into becomes C, if you dual boot both drives show up as C:\ when you boot into them.
Have you looked at Disk Management to see if it will allow you to rename Drive J to Drive C?
You will have to change C:\ to some unused letter first.
I just checked and my computer seems to be willing to let me change my C:\ drive to anything I want.
I didn't do it, so I don't know what would happen if I did but I assume it wold just show a new drive letter but still boot the same.
Just right click on the drive in Disk Management and select, "Change Drive Letter and Paths".
This doesn't involve moving anything just changing the name of the drive, and will move the paths to the new location. I'm not sure this would't cause boot issues!!!
But my personal experience has been that I can shuffle the letters around any way I want and it still knows where everything is.
A screen shot of your Disk Management Windows would be he helpful.
If you have a empty C:\ drive maybe you should just do a clean install of Windows 10 on it and start over.
Just be sure that all of the data on the computer is backed up before you start messing around with it.
if you have Windows 10 installed and authenticated you don't have to got through the whole updating thing again, once you have signed in with your Microsoft account you should be able to install it anytime and just log in with your account when it boot up.
Mike
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