Windows 10: How to move Windows boot files to new drive?

Discus and support How to move Windows boot files to new drive? in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; I have an old PC which I have upgraded over the years. It used to be a Vista / Win 7 PC which I then dual booted with Win 10 on a separate new HDD -... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by 26dipp, Jun 10, 2020.

  1. 26dipp Win User

    How to move Windows boot files to new drive?


    I have an old PC which I have upgraded over the years.
    It used to be a Vista / Win 7 PC which I then dual booted with Win 10 on a separate new HDD - and also Ubuntu on the Win 7 HDD - but the boot information has always remained on the original Win 7 HDD.
    I recently fitted a SSD and cloned my Win 10 installation onto it. As I had a multiboot setup I simply added the new SSD as the default drive.
    The problem came when I tried to remove the original Win 7 HDD. The PC simply stalled as it did not have any boot info.

    How can I move / create reliable boot information on the new SSD?

    I do not want to erase any of the existing HDDs - at least as yet.

    :)
     
    26dipp, Jun 10, 2020
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  2. 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 10, 2020
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  3. Ahhzz Win User
    Windows 10 Tweaks

    Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

    Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

    • Open a new Explorer window.
    • Click View in the ribbon.
    • Click Options.
    • Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
    • Click OK


    credit to Lifehacker.
     
    Ahhzz, Jun 10, 2020
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  4. How to move Windows boot files to new drive?

    Can't boot up win Windows 7! Halp!

    I never got to any options or install screen or anything, it was just "loading windows files" and then the screen. I tried it 3 times, went through those steps all 3 times. I've only been booting from the disc, it's not installed to boot from the drive.
     
    Soylent Joe, Jun 10, 2020
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