Windows 10: Boot and System ended up on different hard drives!!! Help!

I have two hard drives (C: and E*Smile. Normally I have windows 10 installed on C: and just my documents on E: drive.

I had to reinstall windows. The reinstall put the Boot on C: and the System on E: drive. (See image.)

Is there any way of putting the system back on C: drive? (I didn't want to reformat both drives and reinstall windows again if I can avoid it.) *Sad




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Windows 10 Automatic Startup Repair Loop

It could be a failing hard drive. Multiple boot errors, system refusing to load, the inability to find the hard drive sounds like the drive is only partially working and faulting at different points
of start up which cause the pc to stop booting.

 

how to copy one bootable windows system to a new hard drive and make the new drive bootable in windows 10

NO !!! Windows 10 will not copy system drive onto another fresh clean hard drive..

did this 11 times and give up used 5 different programs. amoei backupper for one

windows 10 pro upon boot up after copying onto a fresh hard drive during boot up

windows says " inaccessible boot device" windows will restart

every time got this same message

there was no boot device i can't get windows to copy the boot device to the new hard drive.

all i wanted to do was copy from 1 system drive to a formatted fresh clean hard drive

windows system boot drive typically drive c onto a fresh clean hard drive.

windows WON'T DO IT.. kept saying " inaccessible boot device"

GUESS i'm too OLD to know how to do this or i'm just technologically STUPID.........

hard drive is mbr

amoei was only a trial it will not clone in a trial basis to do what i want you had to buy it

acronis true image 2015 will not restore the boot in windows even when it was a direct restore

from the original windows operating system..

 

1. Format your F: drive
2. Run Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator, then run the command below to configure the booting on F:
bcdboot C:\Windows /s F:
3. Reboot the PC, change BIOS to boot from the disk 0

More infomation about bcdboot: BCDboot Command-Line Options

 

Thanks. I think this will create another boot record.

I wanted System on C: drive (NOT D: drive).

 

Rebuilding boot sectors on first drive is easy enough. Getting boot sectors off E drive is a bit tricky. Easiest way is to back up E drive data, format it and copy data back. This is not the fastest way but is the safest way.

Ok what you need to do is

1) install Macrium Reflect Free, and create a bootable Macrium Rescue usb drive or dvd.
Alternatively use the WinPE Rescue drive in Software and Apps Section which has Macrium already installed.

2) copy all data files on hdd you want to keep to an external drive, or temporarily to C drive, as you have enough space (create a subdirectory eg Edrive). This will take a while as a lot of data.

3) Disconnect HDD.

4) Boot from Macrium drive, select restore tab, and click "fix windows boot problems", then it should list your C drive. If not, stop and come back for more advice.

5) Then click next, finish and boot sectors will be rebuilt.

6) Boot pc and check it is booting ok.

7) Reconnect HDD, and go to bios and check pc is set to boot from SSD

8) You can now format HDD, and then copy data back from C drive.

9) If System Reserved Partiopn still shows up with a drive letter, remove drive letter from Disk Management.

 

Install EasyBCD:
EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies

Move boot (system) files to C: partition:
Changing the Boot Partition

Make sure and read the note at the bottom of that procedure.

Remove the active tag from the E: drive partition:
Open a "run as administrator" command prompt. Type:
Diskpart
Select Disk 1
Select Part 1
Inactive


You will still have boot files remaining on E: drive, but they will not be used for anything and you can manually delete them.

Really, though, the boot ("system") files should be on F:, not C:. But in your OP you stated you wanted them on C: drive.

 

It worked. Thanks.

The only headache was getting Windows to recognize the second hard drive when I plugged it in. "BIOS" recognized it but DISKMGMT.msc wouldn't! All of a sudden after an hour or two fiddling, E: suddenly appeared without System status. Yippee!

PS I used the Window's system image app for the backups.