Windows 10: Diskpart problem

Used reflect to do image backup on another drive and all went well. Both drives have same data,they are exact.If I boot machine with only one drive powered all is good,if I power up the other drive to update a file Diskpart does not see the other drive. Use to do all the time in windows7 to update one or other. The other drive is a backup so I can have instant os if one would crash. In disk management it show both drives but second drive is offline.(The disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk that is online). Is there a way around this?*Confused

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problems in disk manager / DiskPart

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Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

I understand your concern to know about Disc partitions in Windows 10, we will help you with this issue.

From the screenshot I would like to inform that, Windows might be installed on the main partition.

I suggest you to do the below and check:

• Press Windows + E to open File Explorer.
• Open each of the drive on your PC and check for the below folders:

• Program Files, Users, Windows.

This will let you to recognize the drive that contains Windows Operating System.

Hope it helps. Feel free to contact us for any further queries on Windows Operating System. We will be happy to help you.

 

problems in disk manager / DiskPart

Back Story: My computer is a Aspire timelineU an M5-481TG. It came with a 16gb hidden backup partition which I want to keep, but after toying around with my PC, I am not entirely sure which volumes I created, and which ones Windows or Linux created. The
PC originally came with Windows 7, then I upgraded to Windows 8, Then to Windows 8.1 . Meanwhile, I was playing around with dual booting Linux and windows 8.1. I have successfully removed Linux and GRUB, and upgraded to Windows 10, but now I have hosh posh
of various small partitions that I can't make sense of. The PC also came with some SmartCache software that utilized the SSD for caching and the second half of SSD was set up for Hibernation file. I have deleted both of these partitions after installing the
new (main) SSD.

*edit: I should mention my ultimate goal is to span C: across the remainder of SSD 2 (disk 1)

Questions :

• Which of these hidden partitions are actually being used by windows 10? (see picture below)
• Can said hidden partitions be moved to the end part of the second SSD?

(Side note: cmd prompt DiskPart would not let me delete the 429MB or the 365MB partitions, 365MB just said it was in use even with override command, and the 429MB continuously causes DiskPart to crash and restart every time delete volume is tried.)



I hope someone out there can answer at least one of my questions. Thanks a million.

 

Hi,

You can try to put it back online using Disk Management by right clicking on the area where it says "Off line" then pick "On line" from the menu.

Apparently both disks have the same disk signature to which Windows objects.

Cheers, *Wink

 

Got it ,had to change ID
Commands:
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1)DISKPART
2)List Disk
3)Select Disk X
4)Uniqueid Disk
5)Uniqueid Disk ID=X

 

Hi,

Glad to see you have it sorted.
I guess Windows would have kept on complaining for as long as the drive's IDs weren't unique anyhow.

Cheers, *Wink

 

Well did not go as well as I wanted, can't boot other drive now.I guess I can go back and change the ID but I will be where I started. Maybe I missed something else to do?

 

You have to change the GUID for the drive in the BCD store.

From "run as administrator" command prompt:

bcdboot C:\windows

use the drive letter of the drive that isn't booting. If you want that drive to boot by itself, then you will have to boot from Windows Install Media (USB/DVD) with the problem drive installed by itself, select the repair option, and attempt to fix the BCD that way.

If that fails, install Macrium Reflect Free, create a rescue USB/DVD, boot from that, under the restore menu is an option to fix startup errors.

You can also use EasyBCD to fix the BCD entry with the problem hard drive installed as the second hard drive - just make sure you switch to the BCD store that is on the second hard drive so you are fixing the correct BCD.

 

Thanks for info NavyLCDR, but I had no luck.Tried the repair startup option on the windows media disk. What I did was a image backup from one drive to other,so they do both have same signature.I can change the signature on one drive and they both show up from the booted drive. This is what I needed to move files between them,problem is the drive I changed the id will not boot.Like you said I need to change the guid on that dive, any other suggestions?

 

Well, did you try Macrium Reflect Free rescue disk, fix startup errors with only the problem drive connected to the computer?

How exactly does it fail to boot? What is the error?

 

Lost a little hair over this one,LOL. I did get the boot fixed with the Macrium Rescue Disk,both drive boot good and have different signatures.I guess changing this setting can cause bib problems,lucky I have a lot of smart friends on this forum. Guess I will mark solved because all is well. See I will have this problem every time I do a system image restore to the other drive,least I know how to fix it now. Season Greeting to all at Windows10 forum.

Larry

 

Macrium Reflect Free is 100% better than any similar function offered by Microsoft in Windows.

 

Hi,

Glad to see all is well.
On a final note, in general Windows can get a bit "confused" when there's another version of itself visible on another drive (or partition). Not that this is the cause of this particular problem but still.

If it were me I'd do the cloning of the disk using Macrium's Rescue environment. When that's done I'd go into bios, test boot the cloned disk and when all is well I'd just disable that drive in bios.
That's how I did it months ago.
Nowadays I gained so much confidence in Macrium that I just let it make system images which I keep on an external USB drive.
At the rate MS is updating their latest brainchild you can easily find yourself doing more backups than anything else nowadays........
Macrium's help file which you can either consult online or download is worth a read.
After that pick the policy that suits you best.

I absolutely second NavyLCDR's opinion. Not only is it better, it's also more complete and quite a bit faster too.

Best, *Wink