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Hexenherz
12/31/20 5:08:41 PM
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But that's not the worst part.

The worst part is that somehow that HDD got partitioned into two, while one of my SSDs went unformatted entirely.

So this whole time I thought my computer was shitting the bed because it said C was an HDD, and the load times were slow as hell, and it only showed one SSD but the right number of drives.

Fml. I guess I just... Back up the data I want from the hard drive, format it, install Windows to the proper drive... What a headache

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sauceje
12/31/20 5:17:46 PM
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lol how did you pull this off

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Hexenherz
12/31/20 5:20:03 PM
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I don't fudging know.

It started after a Win 10 update that tanked my performance and I was like "fuck windows" and started experimenting with different Linux builds but that didn't pan out so I came back to Windows.

Good news is I already have an enclosure for internal HDDs and I have a brand new SSD so it seems like a good time to swap something out anyway

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Ch33z_I_Luv
12/31/20 5:20:19 PM
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You should only have the drive you want to install windows onto plugged into the motherboard. Plug in the others after you're done with updates
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EmbraceOfDeath
12/31/20 5:20:29 PM
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Assuming the SSD is big enough, you should be able to just clone the HDD partition to the SSD.

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Hexenherz
12/31/20 5:26:17 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
Assuming the SSD is big enough, you should be able to just clone the HDD partition to the SSD.
That's a pretty good idea. Will it boot like normal though?


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EmbraceOfDeath
12/31/20 5:27:16 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
That's a pretty good idea. Will it boot like normal though?
Yeah. I don't remember what program I used when I did mine, but there are several out there that you can use without having to buy them.

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treewojima
12/31/20 5:29:12 PM
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Nah, I wouldn't bother cloning Windows from an HDD to an SSD, there are all sorts of registry and filesystem settings that optimize it for solid state drives. Better just to start fresh
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