System and Active disk are on the wrong drive!!!!

masplin

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I used to have windows 7 on a 500GB HD and a large 2TB data HD for photos. I decided to install an SSD and a clean install of Windows 8.1 on the SSD. After that worked ok I formatted the old HD that had Win7 and used it as another data drive.

I was a bit surprised to look in disk management and see

U: 500GB Primary (old Win7 OS drive)
C: Boot, Page File, Crash dump, Primary (new SSD Win8 drive)
R: 2TB System, Active,Primary (photo drive that has never had an OS on it!!!!)

I came across this when I was using Filehistory and saw the system image icon. however it is insisting on including the R Drive in the image because it thinks it is a system drive. From a little bit of searching i can see Active and system are completely wrong for R: since the OS only resides on the new SSD. This doens't sound like a good place to be.

How do i fix this as have 800GB of photos on R:!!!

Thanks for any advice

Mike
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1
Classic mistake. You did not disconnect the HDDs when you installed 8.1 on the SSD. Then the installer grabs the first disk it finds to place the bootmgr. There is no danger for your photos, but performance is going to be slower than expected with a SSD. There are 2 things you can do:

1. Reinstall 8.1 on the SSD with the HDDs physically disconnected (pull the power rail). Change the BIOS boot order to boot from the SSD. Then deactivate the HDD.
2. Try this which works for Win 7 but I have never tried it on 8.1. So it is at your own risk.
 

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That is so irritating why would someone write that! I assume reinstall Win8 means wipe the whole thing and reinstall all programs etc. Took me 2 days so I don't think I'm up for doing that.

Is performance just affected on booting or once system is up and running?

Thanks
Mike
 

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That is so irritating why would someone write that! I assume reinstall Win8 means wipe the whole thing and reinstall all programs etc. Took me 2 days so I don't think I'm up for doing that.

Is performance just affected on booting or once system is up and running?

Thanks
Mike

Sorry, but you did not do it right in the first place. What do you want me to tell you. It's live and learn.
 

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No problem thanks for your advice. i'm asking the EasyBCD forum if anyone has tried it on Win so I'll report back what they say

Cheers
 

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...Sorry, but you did not do it right in the first place...
hey whs! howszitgoin'? I also did something wrong. Anyway, I think I diddled with EasyBCD at home on my W7Pro a little too much. I can either boot System Reserved or boot from C-drive. I can't remember how to safely remove that C-drive booting using EasyBCD. I ended up having two tiny slivers of unallocated spaces - one before C-partition and one before D-partition. I think EasyBCD saved original settings somewhere. Could I invoke that and put me back to where I was before I diddled with EasyBCD? Not only that, I can no longer rename my LocalDrive D to S01_D1 -- within explorer.exe anymore. :)
 

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Thanks whs; then I can simply absorb the two unallocated slivers into C and/or D partitions, correct?
 

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    Windows 7 Pro 64bit [MS blue-disk set]
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    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2 Acers & 1 Antec[?]
    CPU
    i7 in 2 Acers, i5 in desktop
    Motherboard
    Desktop w/Gigabyte
    Memory
    Two w/16GB, 1 w/8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Laptops GameWorthy; Desktop maybe GameWorthy
    Monitor(s) Displays
    flatscreens; 2 are BluRay worthy
    Screen Resolution
    1368x768; 1600x900
    Hard Drives
    1TB internals; 2 ext usb WD 1TB HDs
    PSU
    what's PSU?
    Cooling
    Regular plus external fans
    Keyboard
    desktio w/PS2
    Mouse
    desktop w/PS2
    Internet Speed
    DSL middle level [160?]
    Browser
    from Netscape 0.9 to FF 36
    Antivirus
    well-balanced, well-configured mult-layered defense is best
    Other Info
    From MS-DOS 3.3, MS-DOS 6.22, from Windows 3.1 to WFW 3.11 to Windows 95-98SE, now to Windows 7 Pro.
    Security for now: Windows 7 Firewall, Emsisoft AM, MSE [scan-only], SpywareBlaster, Ruiware/BillP combine
Yeah, I would not worry about those slivers. Adding them to a partition may be more trouble than it is worth.
 

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    5 SSDs and 12 HDs
Back to my original problem. i loaded up EAsyBCD and it says that both boot manager and boot loader are on the C: drive so I don't need to move them. However I'm still left with the R drive being "Active". I'm unclear what to do other than a complete reinstall?
 

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  • OS
    8.1
from command prompt (admin) type one command at a time

diskpart
list disk
select disk # (# being the disk number with R on it) (2TB drive I think you said)
list partition
select partition # (# being the R partition number) (should only have partition 1 anyway)
inactive

Now if you need to set C as Active -

diskpart
list disk
select disk # (# being the disk number with C on it) (SSD drive I think you said)
list partition
select partition # (# being the C partition number) (should only have partition 1 anyway)
active
 

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    CPU
    I7
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    24 GB
on a legacy system the Active ID tells the pc it is an active bootable partition
 

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  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
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    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
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