Windows 10: How can I remove old HDD, which has system partition on it?

I bought an new HDD and I want to replace my old 160 GB one, but it has an old windows 7 and a system partition.
The drive I want to replace is Drive 1, but I have to boot from it in order to my UEFI find the Op system and the multiboot "menu".


drive "I" is the one which has windows 7.
(sorry, my windows' language is Hungarian, but I translated every important text (and accidentally I wrote lemez = drive instead of lemez = disk )).
So, my question is how can I replace this HDD without reinstalling the whole operating system.
And I'm currently using windows 10.

:)

 

Getting Error message" There was failure in preparing backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set with Error code :0x807800C5"

Hi Gica,

Thank you for the update.

The error maybe caused by another EFI system partition on the old hard disk which windows were installed.

The solution is to remove the EFI partition from old hard disk.

1.cmd

2.diskpart

3.select disk X ( X== the number of your old HDD)

list partition (find what is the number of your the partition labeled as system)

4. select partition X

5. del partition override

now you can make system image back up.

Please revert if the backup issue still persists.

Thank you.

 

System Reserve Partition

In installing Windows 10 on my PC with an SSD and HDD I ended up with the OS on both drives and booting from the HDD. I now have the computer booting from the SSD as I initially planned and have reformatted the HDD to eliminate the extra copy of the OS.
However, I still have a "System Reserve Partition" on both drives. Can I remove the partition on the HDD(which does not contain the OS)? How do I go about that?

 

Hi AdamBlack and welcome to Tenforums *Smile

I would install Macrium reflect (free) and transfer all necessary partitions from old drive to new one. Then you just have to replace drives.
You can connect new drive with USB or just put it in your PC (on free SATA port) and after transfer you replace it.

Edit: while doing this, it may be good to make backup of those partitions on external disk.

 

And if I do it this way, will my system see the System partition and boot properly? (so, if I move the S.p. to the new HDD)

 

You have kind of mess there. If I understand correctly, On disk 0, you have Windows 10, which is also boot partition, but System reserved on drive 1 is "Active", which means system will load from it... You should transfer system reserved to disk 0 (450 MB partition) and make it and active, but this is different task.

Anyway, answer to your last question is yes. If you run Macrium reflect and select Image selected disks.... then select all disk (circled on picture) and in next step select new disk to copy partitions to.

After copy is finished, swap disks (old one with new..) and you are good.

If anything goes wrong, you still have old disk, swap again and you have old working system.

I strongly advice to make backup before any of this operations. Although, I made it several times before and no 'problems occurred... I'm (and a lot of other forum users) using same software for backup. Just saving disk or partition images on external drive.

 

Thanks, but if I made a 100 MB partition on Drive 0 (which has windows 10) then I moved the Sp to this partition it would work the same way, wouldn't it?

 

You already have 450 MB partition (probably made by Windows 10 installation). Don't know why your system is still using old 100 MB System partition.

If you clone whole disk (1) to new one, you don't need to manually transfere anything. System will behave just like it is now, but from new drive.

 

Okay, I will do that, the only reason why I wanted to transfer it to Disk 0, because I only need the System Partition, the Win 7 and the other partition unnecessary for me.

 

for that purpose you don't have to use Macrium (but wont hurt to make a backup of your disk..)

Follow instructions in Kyhi's answer in thread moving system Reserved partition. EasyBCD is great tool for such tasks. Also post with pictures about using EasyBCD

In short:

After that just remove disk 1.

 

Thank you! I've just realised I was talking bullsh*t, because it's not System Partition, what I want to move it's System Reserved Partition. I think it doesn't change anything and I can use the method you mentioned above( with EasyBCD).

 

Instruction was for System reserved *Smile It should be safe.

Edit: I usually download software from known sites.. Softpedia clearly marks, if software contains any unwanted add-ons. This supposed to be clean.

 

Have you considered cloning your current hard drive? With a utility like EaseUS todo backup free, you can clone your operating system and installed programs.

 

*Ditto*Ditto Just did this on one system, and doing it on 2 more now.

 

Okay thank you! But after I moved my System Reserved P. to Drive 0, instead of being marked as active, my recovery partition is marked as active, so my (hopefully last) question is can I simply set the SRP as active and the Recovery as inactive? (I know only one active partition is allowed to be on one disk)