Windows 10: Changing primary boot partition to a local disk after cloning.

Hi


I have recently cloned a disk from a workstation onto a blank one for another, new workstation. The source disk is running Windows 10, and there is various software and applications that should be on the new disk along with the operating system. However, when I insert the disk into the new workstation, it goes through the Windows set up process, as if I had inserted a Windows 10 CD into the disk drive and installed it onto the computer on a blank drive, instead of cloning an existing disk onto it. This means that it is running a fresh, blank copy of Windows 10, rather than the copy that is running on the source disk, along with the other programs/applications/data.

"My Computer" shows that there are three drives - the C Windows drive, the E DVD drive, and the F Local Disk drive. The C drive and F drive take up roughly the same space, so when looking at both of them it is clear that the disk cloning process created a new partition, labelling it F, of the Windows on the source disk, rather than installing it straight on the C drive/partition like it usually does I have cloned different disks in the past and they have all worked as planned.

Is there a way I can assign the F partition to be the boot partition running Windows, possibly replacing the Windows in the C drive? The F drive contains all the usual System32/Users/etc. files.

Thanks

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to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that