Windows 10: Windows 10 operating system & boot drive on different drives...

Discus and support Windows 10 operating system & boot drive on different drives... in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Windows keeps installing boot drive and operating system onto different drives... Is there any way of installing boot and operating system onto one... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Br4ndz, Feb 1, 2019.

  1. BR4NDZ
    Br4ndz Win User

    Windows 10 operating system & boot drive on different drives...


    Windows keeps installing boot drive and operating system onto different drives...

    Is there any way of installing boot and operating system onto one hard drive without disconnecting all the other hard drives internally?

    What are the pro's and con's of this configuration?

    Can you move the boot drive onto system drive hdd? (no 3rd party methods please)

    :)
     
    Br4ndz, Feb 1, 2019
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  2. PUMA99DK|
    puma99dk| Win User

    Windows 10 boot drive

    Why do u even want a HDD/SSD that's 3TB for a operation system?
     
    puma99dk|, Feb 1, 2019
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  3. STTUBS
    sttubs Win User
    Windows 10 boot drive

    Is Windows 10 also limited to a max of 3Tb for a boot drive?
     
    sttubs, Feb 1, 2019
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  4. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User

    Windows 10 operating system & boot drive on different drives...

    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, Feb 1, 2019
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