Get assistance with system image and boot manager documentation.
Get assistance with system image and boot manager documentation.
You're facing a common issue when transferring a system image. The problem likely stems from Windows thinking it's still running on the old drive, even though you've removed the Windows folder and installed Windows only on the SSD. Since the HDD isn't selected as your boot device in BIOS, Windows won't recognize it. To resolve this, you'll need to ensure the correct drive is set as the boot device before attempting the image transfer. Also, consider using a tool like DiskPart or GParted to safely move boot files from the HDD to the SSD before creating the image.
I didn’t set up everything properly because the connection was bad. To save time, I kept most of my programs and Steam games installed, which avoided a long reinstall. So far, there have been no problems except for this one.
Check if your C: disk includes a reserved partition. If it does, assign a drive letter and verify your boot manager and BCD files are present. To access these, enable hidden items and unhide protected interop files in Folder>View>Options (you should have done this recently). This suggests your current boot manager BCD data likely resides in the system reserved area of the C: drive.
These files are indeed located in the main System Reserved partition on the SSD. This suggests it’s secure to remove the old system reserved and boot files from your hard drive.
Yeah man, if in real doubt move them to a USB if it makes you feel better and then you should be good to go. When you boot you select a boot device, in this case your SSD, the partition table tells it where the partitions are and it uses the boot files it finds on this disk. Those are the old boot files for your old pc. To my knowledge most bootmgr files are similar anyway. Edit: Add dont remove the pagefile or hibernation file, those are removed if you turn those features off, which you can use your google-fu to solve . Remove the bootfile in the root of your old HDD and you should be able to put a system image on it
I removed all boot files and cleared the old system reserved partition in the disk manager. I attempted to expand the main disk volume, but it merged them instead of extending it properly and turned both into simple volumes. Converting everything into a single primary partition without deleting the volume isn’t possible right now. I’ll get a new SSD later and handle it then. Thanks, Austin.