Windows 10: Boot windows from new drive while keeping old drive’s file?

Discus and support Boot windows from new drive while keeping old drive’s file? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; I just bought a new ssd to install windows on because my hard drive sounds like the Daytona 500 when booting up. I have 100s of gbs worth of programs... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/MostLikelyALlama, Jun 21, 2020.

  1. /U/MOSTLIKELYALLAMA
    /u/MostLikelyALlama Win User

    Boot windows from new drive while keeping old drive’s file?


    I just bought a new ssd to install windows on because my hard drive sounds like the Daytona 500 when booting up. I have 100s of gbs worth of programs and files I want to keep. Anyway of having windows on both, but only running on one?

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    /u/MostLikelyALlama, Jun 21, 2020
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  2. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User

    Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

    Please move if this is in the wrong place.

    I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

    If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

    My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
    I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.
     
    speedy11131, Jun 21, 2020
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  3. CINDYROMERO
    CindyRomero Win User
    How to stop File History on the old drive and start File History on a new drive?

    I use the external drive
    for File History and have a lot of information there. I want to restart the File History process on a new drive and place the previous File History drive off-site.

    Please suggest the steps to stop File History on the old drive and start File History on a new drive.
     
    CindyRomero, Jun 21, 2020
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  4. GLYNPARRY
    GlynParry Win User

    Boot windows from new drive while keeping old drive’s file?

    Old Hard drive to new hard drive

    I now have my old hard drive converted to an external drive and am wondering what is the best way to move files from the old to the new. I was thinking of booting the old drive and saving the files I want to the cloud and then downloading them to my new
    computer. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
     
    GlynParry, Jun 21, 2020
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