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    Repairing Windows 10 on a different drive while retaining that drive's contents?


    I have a bit of an odd problem- I recently upgraded my computer which involved some cloning of drives to new NVMEs, and I suspect something there went wrong with moving my Windows installation. My PC worked fine enough, though I had to keep an otherwise unnecessary drive plugged in or else I got driver failure BSODs often, but it seemed to be only temporary as I eventually found myself unable to log into Windows without freezing and crashing. I did a clean install of Windows on my secondary drive, which works flawlessly and all my other issues seem to be resolved, but of course it's entirely c

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