New Hard Drive

[Sir_Toucan]

Hi Guys,

Need some Disk management advice?

I have a corsair One*

I want to replace its relatively slow secondry drive, a 2TB hard drive with an equivilent SSD. However when I briefly tried this a few months ago it failed to boot after this secondry drive was replaced with a blank SSD. I didnt have time to look into it at that point to I just put it back.

Now looking into my Disk managent I can see Disk 0 has a recovery partition, is this whjy when removed it wouldnt boot?

If so how can I get around this?

*(Yes shock horror a pre-build) I have built many computers in the past so please no hate.

[zlynx]

It sort of looks like you’re booting in UEFI mode off an EFI boot on that Drive 0. Weird setup.

You’d need to make EFI partitions on Drive 1 and copy the boot files into it. Then after removing Drive 0 update the boot selection in the BIOS.

[zlynx]

@Sir_Toucan

I want to replace its relatively slow secondry drive, a 2TB hard drive with an equivilent SSD.

Also, isn’t more better? If there’s room in the case just add the new SSD and keep the HDD too.

[Adubs]

Your bootloader is on drive 0 (100MB EFI system partition) which is the drive you’re trying to replace, so you’ll want to use something like clonezilla to clone the partitions to the SSD. I dont know if you can shrink the C:\ (drive 1) at the beginning to add it there. If you could I would give gparted a shot.

Alternatively you can use the windows ISO to create a new bootloader for windows at the beginning of the new drive manually.

[Sir_Toucan]

Thanks for reply (only just seen notification!)

Dont think there is anywhere else to ad a drive, already have a m.2 and hard drive in this system.

[Sir_Toucan]

Thanks for reply (only just seen notification!)

I will give this a go! Thanks for your help it is appreciated

[zlynx]

It looks weird but for most UEFI BIOS the EFI System partition for boot can be anywhere on the drive. So it could be at the end.

Although I’ve heard stories about systems that want it at the front, or refuse to find it if it is more than 2 TB from the front. Some remnant of 32-bit pointers, maybe.

[Adubs]

I never thought about it but the recovery partition for windows is almost exclusively first so I guess it could go at the end… Never tried.

[zlynx]

I don’t see that you said what type of system it is. Is it small, like a NUC or a mini-ITX?
(Edit: Ooops, missed that you said a Corsair One. Yes, that would be small.)

I guess I’m used to desktop cases. I can probably stuff 12 drives in the one I’m using now, if I can stick a couple of SATA SSDs in the slots on the back of the motherboard and I removed the Bluray drive.

[Sir_Toucan]

@Sir_Toucan

Yeah, I used to have large towers with loads of hard drives (kinda had a problem, everytime I had a differerent media I would just be like " lets put iot on a seperate drive!")

But the issue with my toweers was my place gets really dusty quick,. like a have to dust the office twice a week basically and it was ruining the computers,no matter th e towers i tried of the filters. But the corsair one stops me buying loads of drives and also with only one exaust seems to prevent dust (also helped with dual water cooling)

Yeah, I used to have large towers with loads of hard drives (kinda had a problem, everytime I had a differerent media I would just be like " lets put iot on a seperate drive!")

But the issue with my toweers was my place gets really dusty quick,. like a have to dust the office twice a week basically and it was ruining the computers,no matter th e towers i tried of the filters. But the corsair one stops me buying loads of drives and also with only one exaust seems to prevent dust (also helped with dual water cooling)

[Sir_Toucan]

Managed to clone it to the 1tb primary OS drive, tested removing the 2tb drive and it still booted thanks for your help. Just need to shop for a 2tb SSD to replace that drive now.