Windows 10: Changing the Active Partition on Windows 10

I have an Aurora Alienware and I am trying to move my main Windows to another drive.

It seems that this Bios is different and doesn't let me choose to boot from USB. Still researching.


However, I was able to clone my C drive to the F drive new SSD, but now I am researching on how to transfer the boot to that partition.

Didn't find anything that works for me. Any advice.


I tried Bcdboot F:\Windows but got this result:


BFSVC Error: Failed to set element application device. Status = [c00000bb]

BFSVC Error: Failed to populate BCD store. Status = [c00000bb]




Thanks

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Changing active partition

I'm installing a new hard drive (just hard drives, no SSD or anything here), to use as the main Windows partition. When that's done, I want to set it as the active partition, then start moving files from the old partition. But I've never done this before. Is it really as easy as right-clicking the drive in the storage manager, setting as "active partition," and resetting? There are tutorials floating around, but seeing as I'm messing around with hard drives, I'd rather have someone's input.

 

W7 Hard drive partition issue

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

 

unmark a partition as "active"

After changing to active partition my computer doesn't boot so what can I do now?