Windows 10: How to get rid of old (dual) boot hdd used to clone Win 10 to ssd

Hello All, My Lenovo desktop came with Windows 10 Home preinstalled on a 1 TB HDD. Last December I cloned the Windows 10 partition to a SSD and somehow managed to boot from it as the main partition, C: on the volume I named Win10-SSD, leaving the old volume renamed Win10-HDD as D:. Note: when booting the computer I can still choose between both options in the Windows 10 boot menu, the SSD being the default. I'm running Windows 10 Home version 20H2 Build 19042. As it works fine and I no longer need the HDD as fallback, I'd like now to reformat completely the 1 TB disk, but the disk manager shows two partitions which I suspect are still used in the startup process: the EFI partition and likely also the OEM partition (as I'm still getting the unnecessary OEM logo then splash screen with circling dot 'hourglass' at startup). The SSD however only shows the Windows partition and a small recovery partition (of any use?). See screenshot: Can you guide me in the steps necessary to work with the SSD only (I guess other boot manager / loader / etc partition must be created and chained ?). I wouldn't mind getting rid of the Lenovo interim boot step also, and I don't require to keep the 24 GB recovery partition at the end of the HDD. Thanks in advance for your guidance ! PS: when running bcdedit I'm getting this output: Code: Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2 path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi description Windows Boot Manager locale en-us inherit {globalsettings} default {current} resumeobject {7aae8355-960d-11eb-8af8-b8aeed25f4c5} displayorder {current} {1debaa07-46a9-11ea-97fc-b8aeed25f4c5} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 5 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device partition=C: path \windows\system32\winload.efi description Windows 10 SSD locale en-us inherit {bootloadersettings} isolatedcontext Yes allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075 osdevice partition=C: systemroot \windows resumeobject {7aae8355-960d-11eb-8af8-b8aeed25f4c5} nx OptIn bootmenupolicy Standard Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {1debaa07-46a9-11ea-97fc-b8aeed25f4c5} device partition=D: path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.efi description Windows 10 HDD locale en-us inherit {bootloadersettings} isolatedcontext Yes allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075 osdevice partition=D: systemroot \WINDOWS resumeobject {1debaa06-46a9-11ea-97fc-b8aeed25f4c5} nx OptIn bootmenupolicy Standard

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How to get rid of old (dual) boot hdd used to clone Win 10 to ssd

Hello All,

My Lenovo desktop came with Windows 10 Home preinstalled on a 1 TB HDD. Last December I cloned the Windows 10 partition to a SSD and somehow managed to boot from it as the main partition, C: on the volume I named Win10-SSD, leaving the old volume renamed Win10-HDD as D:. Note: when booting the computer I can still choose between both options in the Windows 10 boot menu, the SSD being the default. I'm running Windows 10 Home version 20H2 Build 19042.

As it works fine and I no longer need the HDD as fallback, I'd like now to reformat completely the 1 TB disk, but the disk manager shows two partitions which I suspect are still used in the startup process: the EFI partition and likely also the OEM partition (as I'm still getting the unnecessary OEM logo then splash screen with circling dot 'hourglass' at startup). The SSD however only shows the Windows partition and a small recovery partition (of any use?). See screenshot:




Can you guide me in the steps necessary to work with the SSD only (I guess other boot manager / loader / etc partition must be created and chained ?). I wouldn't mind getting rid of the Lenovo interim boot step also, and I don't require to keep the 24 GB recovery partition at the end of the HDD. Thanks in advance for your guidance !

PS: when running bcdedit I'm getting this output:
Code:

 

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