Using SSD As Boot Drive?
Jul 8, 2011
I just got done setting up my new Crucial SATAIII 128GB SSD drive and another Western Digital SATAIII 500GB hard drive for my system. I have them both on SATAIII connection speeds and everything is very nice, but how do I make it where I have ALL of my Program Files and dumps on the Western Digital and only the Boot and main files for the SSD? I am a gamer, and I use Steam. So, I think we all know that I don't want Steam to take up 95% of my SSD drive.If anyone can direct me to a tutorial or something, that would be great. I have tried the method of changing the registery on making the default location for all Program Files to drive F:, the Western Digital, but this simply isn't working. Steam won't connect to the servers and Microsoft Security Essentials won't run at all.
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Jul 10, 2012
I recently built my computer and installed a ssd and a hdd, the OS is on the ssd which is the c drive but since it is smaller than the hdd I tried to change the letters around and make the hdd the c drive using regedit because the default install location seems to be the c drive and after restarting the computer it boots up and says preparing your desktop then goes to a blue screen with just the cursor. I tried booting in safe mode and all I get there is a black screen also
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Jan 25, 2012
Check my Hardware specs for full information
Current setup:
C: Boot, Corsair SSD
D: Files, samsung HDD
D:/boot files/user/(all user account directories moved here, when possible) I'm wondering if it's possible to install games such as Assasins' Creed or Skrym, but install all game data to this folder?D:/boot files/programs/* Many installers allow you to define a custom installation path, But I am unsure if these games would ask for one or force me to install to the default directory?
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Sep 30, 2012
I have a 1T SATA system drive and a 1T SATA working drive. I installed a 3T SATA storage drive, and now my system won't boot from the C:. I have to go into the BIOS and boot from there, or use a boot disk. How do I get the system to boot from C: again?
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Mar 23, 2012
I have a partition question and after scouring the Web, can't find anyone with the exact same situation as mine. Basically what I'm wondering is if I can delete a primary partition and then extend another, non primary into that space.
Here's what I have and why I want to do this: my laptop came from the factory with one 500GB SATA drive, split into two partitions (C, primary, and D, logical, each 250GB). The Win7 install was on the C drive. Recently, I installed a 120GB SSD as a second drive, and using the tools with it, copied the contents of my existing C partition to the new SSD, and then made the SSD the boot drive labeled as the C drive. So far so good, everything works fine.
Now, what I'm left with is this: C: 120GB (SSD, now the boot drive with the Win7 install) D: 250GB (SATA, the original D partition, Disk Management IDs it as a logical drive, extended partition) E: 250GB (SATA, the original C partition, Disk Management IDs it as a primary partition)
So, I have the original "C drive" on E now... it's no longer the system/boot drive. Obviously I don't need the files on it as they are all on the new SSD. What I want to do is to delete all those files and then combine what's on D and E into one 500GB D drive as I have no reason to have the two partitions. Is it possible to just delete the E partition and then extend the D partition into the unallocated space? I'm confused because it seems as though the D partition may rely on the E partition being there since the E drive IDs as primary. Or would the D partition become primary?
I know I could just back up the D partition to an external drive, delete both D and E partitions, and reformat as one new D and restore the files, but I don't want to create more work for myself if I don't have to. Obviously I don't want to mess up the files on the D drive though, which is why I'm asking.
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Jan 10, 2013
How can I move programs and files from my ssd boot drive to my data drive (Windows 7 x64 PC)?
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Apr 26, 2009
ok so im having a weird problem thats probably very easy to fix.
background info: before my Windows 7 install i had 3 partitions
vista 64
xp 32
empty (soon to be linux)
when i downloaded the newest win 7 build i deleted my xp 32 partition and installed Windows 7 on that partition. because Windows 7 creates that "reserve partition" or what ever, it extended my EMPTY partition with my vista partion. which cause it to become a "logical drive" rather than a "boot" drive. aka i cannot figure out how to access my vista OS.. rather annoying since im just toying with Windows 7 atm.
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Jul 24, 2010
2 months ago, I installed windows 7 pro with no problems at all. Fast forward to today, I decided to reformat because the boot would get stuck in the middle of trying to boot into windows, it wouldn't flash the windows logo. I didn't think much of it so I just reformatted. This is where my real troubles began.So I reinstall windows 7 pro with no problems (the boot disk is in there the cd drive the entire time) I install my programs and what not and install my updates. All 100% Fine. Then I take out the boot disk and restart again... and I get this error message saying:
Nvidia Boot Agent 229.0525
Copyright 2001-2005 Nvidia Corp
Copyright 1997-2000 Intel Corp
Client Mac Address: 00 30 1B BC1F59 GUID: 12973077-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF DCHP....
Then I press escape, then it says this:
PXE-EA0: Network Boot Canceled
PXE-M0F: Exiting Nvidia Boot Agent
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
So the first time I got this error, I just thought, Oh, something must have happened no big deal, so I reformatted again and again. But I kept on getting the same exact error. It'll load into windows just fine when my install disc is in the cd drive, but when I take it out, that error pops up. *My windows is authentic, each time I have been able to validate my copy.* I have tried installing from my hard drive and from the install disc with same error.*
This is my current set up:
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (Barebone) Comes with motherboard, PSU, and case.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @2.6GHz 65W
PNY XLR8 GTS 250
OCZ Reaper Memory 4GB PC-6400 DDR2-800
WD 74GB Raptor
WD 640GB Internal
WD 2.0TB Internal
WD 1.5TB External
WD 400GB External
Cavalry 1.0TB External
Shuttle 450 Watt PSU
Logitech G15 + MX518 + FuncPad 1030 Blk on Blk
Sony Optirac 18x DVD-/+RW drive
Dual Samsung SyncMaster 225BW 22" LCD Wide Screen Monitors
So how can I get windows to boot up with out having the boot disk in the cd drive...It worked the very first time I installed windows 7 on my PC...
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Nov 26, 2009
For some odd reason, after doing some changes to my partitions in Windows 7 and restarting my computer, I got the ol' "BOOTMGR is missing" message. I have the Windows 7 Repair Disc image file and a 4GB USB Flash Drive, but, sadly, no CDs. Is there any way that I can put the image file onto my USB Flash Drive and boot from it with my Acer Aspire X1200 desktop computer?
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Jul 25, 2009
I deleted my existing OS then created two new partitions on the same drive. Then I installed Vista on one partition and that partition was properly named "c" as ususal. Then I started Windows 7 setup.exe from a different hard drive and let Windows 7 install itself into its own partition. When I got to "My Computer" the Windows 7 partition was labelled as "I" instead of the expected "C" which had never happend before when I did the same thing.
Does anyone know a save way to label the Win 7 drive as "C" while in Windows 7?
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May 29, 2012
My HP laptop HD crashed, am trying to replace it with a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD. I do not have Windows installation disks, only have Windows Recovery Disks. All installation instructions I have found for SSD's is for cloning, which I cannot do since the HD is deadI have installed the SSD, booted into BIOS, this simple BIOS version doesn't allow me to change anything on the HD, but it does recognize it and let me do a HD test, so it does recognize the SSD. I then put the Windows Recovery disk in the CD drive, attempted to boot up, but the CD drive just spins and spins but never boots up. I thought the CD drive might be bad, so I tried an external USB CD drive with the Recovery disk, but it does the same (just spins). I even got a new Windows 7 installation disk (from another PC) to see if it will boot from it, but get nothing but a spinning CD I have not done anything yet to the HyperX SSD, haved not formatted or partitioned it.I thought this would be done by Recovery on the OS installationThe BIOS is set up to first boot from the CD drive, so the boot order is not the issue.
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Nov 17, 2012
Now this should be simple to do but for some reason my PC just won't boot from a DVD (Windows7). I have a GIGABYTE GA-Z77=DS3H and I have changed the SATA mode to AHCI, and when I restart the PC I go into the boot sequence (F12), where I select my DVD drive but it just keeps booting from the C drive.
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Sep 22, 2010
Is it possible to buy this SSD , install windows to it for faster boot time and better windows score? If it is, how do I do that? I want all my programs/files/folders just as it now...Would I need to like 'uninstall windows' from my current drive (only have one), or can I just take out my current drive, put in SSD, install windows 7 and put my current drive back in again?
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Oct 23, 2009
I guess it's a kind of PE?
Even if I've uninstalled 7 it's still there.is the uninstallation incomplete?
And,where does it reside in my hdd?How can I delete it?
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Mar 10, 2011
can I boot XP Pro from C drive and Windows 7 from D drive?
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Nov 29, 2009
I successfully installed windows 7 from 32bit xp. I didn't reformat the partition I installed windows 7 to.
Then windows would not boot without the windows 7 disc in the drive, even though it skipped boot from CD. If I removed the CD it told me ntoskrnl.exe couldn't be found. I deleted windows.old folder and the problem seemed to go away.
I have 3 Hard drives. 6000GB (disc 0 ) 300 GB (disk1) both SATA. Then I have a 80GB IDE drive disc 2 as reported by disc management. My BIOS boot order is DVD drive then Hard Drives.
Disk 0 hosts the C: boot,active,pagefile, primary partition, and a partition F: of data files. Disk 1 hosts two primary partitions of data files.
However disk 2 has a single partition listed as the primary, active system partition. Its probably left over from ages past when it was my old windows install location for xp several installs of xp ago. A long time ago xp was installed on this drive. Then I upgraded and installed XP into what is now disk 0. I did delete the partitions of the drive 2 at one point under xp and set a single new partition....
But now I did a BIOS update and again the problem has returned. Of course windows.old didn't come back. I have disk 0 (with windows 7 installed) set first in the boot load order for harddrives, but I can only get windows loaded by leaving the install disc in the CD drive.
I tried removing disk 2: the IDE drive. Again same message. This time it boots from the DVD and windows startup repair doesn't detect ANY installations of windows. I ran it anyways, it detected/fixed nothing rebooted to the same thing. When I removed the install DVD
plug back in disk 2 and windows 7 boots up with the install disk in the DVD drive.
so I tried using the automatic repair and that failed...
I don't know what to do now, windows won't let me reset partitions, and the automatic start up doesn't detect my installation without disk 2 plugged in.
I would like to remove disk 2 entirely from my system, and have windows 7 booting properly without that drive install in anyway. I hope I can avoid a system as it was a long process to get everything up and running.
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Aug 13, 2011
I have a laptop runnung WIN 7 home prem. IS it possible to boot it up using an external drive that is out of my old sysem running XP pro, and be able to install and run new XP programs? What pitfalls are there. Im not real savvy with everything. Can't remember what keys to hold to get to the BIOS on startup.
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Feb 19, 2010
Here is the current status of my PC:
- Originally installed with one HDD (1) with Windows XP on it
- I then added a second HDD (2) and installed Windows 7 on it
- My boot menu now lists "Earlier version of Windows" or "Windows 7" as my two options
I want to format HDD1 and get rid of XP. However I believe the boot information is on HDD1, as when I change the boot sequence to start with HDD2 I get an NTLDR error.
Am I correct in thinking that all I need to do is change the boot sequence to go to HDD2, and use bootrec /fixmbr to write a fresh Windows 7 boot record to HDD2? Thus losing the dual boot menu and enabling me to happily ditch everything on HDD1?
Also, if I go into Disk Management in Windows 7, HDD1 is "System, Active, Primary Partition". HDD2 is "Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition". Do I need to do anything here?
Sorry for all the questions but I just want to get this right first time, rather than create myself a problem which I don't have the skills to solve.
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Nov 4, 2009
I am unable to boot from cd rom even though I have made changes in the bios to enable this, has anyone any ideas,.
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May 21, 2012
I just rebuilt my computer with Windows 7 Pro (32 bit) and I have a concern about the numbering of my hard drives. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P which has six ports controlled by the ICH10R controller (S1 through S6) and a pair through the Gigabyte SATA2 controller (GS0 and GS1). I have my SSD primary drive connected to GS0, and this has resulted in it being numbered as Drive #4 instead of #0. Data drives 0 through 4 and the DVD drive are connected to the S1 through S5 ports.I've always thought that the primary (boot) drive needed to be #0. Is this likely to cause a problem? The system seems to work fine.
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May 27, 2011
This pops up following the DELL logo.Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A07 COPYRIGHT 1985-1988 Phoenix Technologies Ltd DELL DXP051 Series BIOS version A07 [URL]
Drive 0 not found: serial ATA, SATA-0
Drive 1 not found: serial ATA, SATA-1
Drive 2 not found: serial ATA, SATA-2
Drive 3 not found: serial ATA, SATA-3
Strike the F1 key to contihue, F2 to sun set-up utility Hitting F1, all is good. But why does this appear and how do I eliminate this process?
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Nov 30, 2011
have a 1TB drive partitioned into two 500GB partitions. One has everything on it, the other is a backup of the other partition (I know, a horrible idea, but I had no alternative). I now have a 60GB SSD that I want to use only as a boot drive, and store everything else that I possibly can on the 1TB hard drive.Here's my question: What is the best way to go about setting this up? Do I need to set up RAID? Also, will I be able to selectively restore the OS and anything else necessary onto the SSD from my backup partition?
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Mar 21, 2011
copied a hard drive using parted magic. I believe i need to edit a boot.ini file? Or was that something for XP? been a while since i upgraded a hard drive so i dont remember exactly what i did last time. Only thing i seem to remember clearly was to NOT plug both drives in once i copied things as windows would have problems with two hard drives, one being the clone of another. So as far as i can tell, everything has been copied. Just need to know what i need to do so windows will actually boot off of it. Not counting changing the boot settings in the bios, which i already did to no effect.
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May 7, 2011
After I got sick of some programs crashing, I decided to install windows xp. i shrinked 1 partition and created a new partition called XP mistakenly under drive A. I shutdown and put in xp disc, selected the newly created partition and chose install there and said not to format as it did when i partitioned. It copied the files and reboted, I took out the disk. The fist screen of my bios now says flopy disks fail (40) or something like that. When I normally go to select an OS, it says hard disk could not be read. I put in my win 7 upgrade disk to try to restore, but there is no restore on an upgrade disk. When in the windows 7 install screen(looking for restore) I deleted the newly created partition. How can I get the computer to boot from hard disk again?
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Jan 22, 2013
i have a question looking for the best light Win7 version and if there is chance someone to explain me how to boot it on my USB flash drive.
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Sep 14, 2011
is it possible to boot Windows 7 from a usb drive? does the bios support usb booting?
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Aug 12, 2009
I recently installed Windows 7 x64 Retail (TechNet) on a 80Gb Intel SSD, with multiple other HDD's connected.
It seems the Windows installer left some critical boot files on Drive D: (Windows is installed on drive C:). When I try to hot swap the D: drive out it freezes windows, or won't allow Windows to boot without it being connected.
I am wondering (aside from reinstalling Windows with no other HDD's present) if I can move those files, or run a command to have those files moved / redirected to the c: drive so I can hotswap the other drive out.
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Feb 5, 2012
I built my computer the other day, and I had not planned to have an ssd at all, but somehow ended up getting a 64 gigabyte Samsung SSD. It is very fast, which is good for the boot, and i just told myself i would put all programs on the HDD. I did that, Windows installation took up like 25 gigs, and since then I've been watching the disk space slowly drop. without even putting anything on it. So i need to switch the boot drive to the HDD, i dont know how to do this. Can i just copy and paste the entire ssd onto the HDD? or do i need to install windows on the HDD. how exactly can i accomplish this. I actually prefer this solution because this way i can have all my more used (large) programs on the ssd operate very quickly and just have to have a longer boot time. If you are going to try and change my opinion
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Feb 23, 2012
Compressed C: and my battery on my laptop died while this was compressing. Turned laptop back on Got the error:Bootmgr is compressed..The problem I'm having is that there is no option to boot from CD Drive. My CD drive is listed in my BIO's but when I go to boot options only my HDD is listed.
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Apr 14, 2011
I recently purchased a new laptop - Toshiba R835 P50x - and replaced the 640gb 5400rpm drive with a 120gb ssd(Kingston v100). I cloned the 640gb, 3 partition(2 hidden) drive to the SSD(all 3 paritions) and replaced it in the laptop and everything is working just fine I now have the original drive in a usb external enclosure and would like to use it for an external back-up drive.What the best(and easiest) method reformatting that drive to eliminate the hidden partitions, and give me just one?
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Sep 13, 2010
I installed Windows 7 on a system with a pair of 1 TB drives "C:" and a 500 GB drive "D:". I am using mirror function built in to Windows 7. I don't like hdwe RAID, as I may not be able to replace a failed controller. Unexpectedly, part of Windows got on the small drive instead of the mirrored pair, and I can't boot without D:. Disk Mgt reports D: has System, Active, Primary Partition; while C: is Boot, Page File. MS support Indian says I need to reinstall Windows after disconnecting D:, and everything will be OK. (I tried, but Install wouldn't let me - I guess I need to format the disk, and I really don't want to). MS support didn't seem too knowledgeable so I'm not confident. I have questions remaining:!. Can Windows 7 even boot from a Windows 7 mirrored drive? I've read on forums that OS needs to be on another drive, that is not part of the mirror, which would sort of render the mirror meaningless. I don't want to have to reinstall Windows after a failure - been there, done that.
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