Windows 10: My desktop won't boot, in case of drive failure, can I re-install my Windows 10 on a new drive?

My pc won't go past the Asus logo, now showing "preparing auto repair" then black screen, I've seen post regarding opening in safe mode, then check the drives. I'll try these methods later, but in case none of them works, and the issue is my OS drive, can I re-install my Windows 10 on a new drive? then if I can, does it still come with the free Windows 11 upgrade? oh and if it is ok to re-install, can I also re-install my Microsoft Office?Thanks

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New Secondary Drive Causes Boot Failure Windows 10

No, I didn't install Windows on anything - I'm saying that on my high-end Windows 10 Pro x64 PC, which by the way has Windows installed on a 400GB Intel 750 Series AIC, when I simply initialize and partition a new storage drive (HDD or SSD), just that, not put anything at all on the drive, just a new, empty, bare drive. When you first plug it in, a Windows dialog pops up, saying that the new disc needs to be initialized, so it can be seen by Windows Disk Management, asking if you want it use MBR or GPT partition table. Then I used Windows Disk Management to format the drive as NTFS in the full available size and assign it a drive letter (or leave it unassigned - doesn't matter). Everything normal, except the new drive doesn't show up in Windows Explorer (My computer). So I reboot, and the aforementioned failure to boot occurs. After I get back into Windows, by loading a recent system image onto my Intel 750 Series AIC boot drive, everything is working fine, and the new drive shows up in Windows Explorer as an empty but fully functional drive, with just the one partition, as normal (and I checked it with MiniTool Partition Wizard, no extra system or hidden partitions). This happened the first time with a 1 TB HDD installed to a SATA port on my motherboard. This latest time it was an SSD connected to my PC through an external USB 3 drive dock - with the same result and fix. Maybe I shouldn't use the built in Windows utilities, I should just use MiniTool to initialize and partition the drive, but I still want to know why Windows behaves this way.

 

New Secondary Drive Causes Boot Failure Windows 10

Thank you, for stating the obvious, but did anyone actually READ my post? Yes "something got corrupted" - not "between that image and now" - but exactly when was, obviously, when I used my perfectly running PC to initialize a new SSD, 30 seconds before the boot failure occurred. Of course all 7 of my existing drives were connected at the time, as why wouldn't they be? I'm only adding a new storage drive, NOT installing Windows! So Windows must be pointing it's boot loader towards the wrong drive - but NOT because of a partition being installed on it - it only contains the partition that I made, and all 4 of the UEFI Windows partitions are still in place on my Intel 750 AIC. other drives look normal - the MBR drives have a single partition, the GPT drives all have the usual 128MB partition as well as the main partition (normal behavior in a UEFI Windows system). *65046-18d4a7b660834ff6a26d6d5c5b5a90bd.jpg* I just want to know why Windows behaves this way, and how to prevent it.

 

Windows 10 boot drive

Is Windows 10 also limited to a max of 3Tb for a boot drive?