Disk Partitions different in Win10 and Win8.1 ???

So here's the thing.

I have an SSD which I have removed from one laptop (it's running Win8.1Pro) and connected it through a USB caddy to my other laptop (running Win10Pro 1909) so that I can move some data around.

To do this I shrink the "C" partition on the SSD and create a new partition from the empty space (shown as "E" in the screenshot below) in disk management on the Win10 laptop. I then copy around 200GB into this new drive, some from the Win10 laptop drive and some from the SSD "C" drive (shown as "D" in the screenshot).



Now when I reinstall the SSD into the original Win8.1 laptop there is no new partition and it's as though nothing has happened to the disk, see below.



When I put the SSD back in the USB disk caddy it shows up as the partitions in the first screenshot.

What's going on?

Open administrative command and copy nd paste: (all at one time)

Code:

bcdedit /enum
reagentc /info
diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel par 7
det par
sel par 8
det par
sel par 9
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel par 7
det par
sel par 8
det par
sel par 9
det par

When these have completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread


Open disk management > by default some columns are compressed > widen each Status and Volume > make sure the contents within the parenthesis are in full view and that none of the characters are cutoff > view disk 0 > widen this row as needed so that all of the characters are in full view > post an image into the thread
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of


Download and install Minitool Partition Wizard > click launch > post an image of the results into this thread
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com
MiniTool Portable Partition Magic Brings Easier Disk Management

I assume you wanted me to do this while the SSD was connected to my Win10 laptop as USB drive.
Details below.

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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> bcdedit /enum
>> reagentc /info
>> diskpart
>> lis dis
>> lis vol
>> sel dis 0
>> det dis
>> sel par 1
>> det par
>> sel par 2
>> det par
>> sel par 3
>> det par
>> sel par 4
>> det par
>> sel par 5
>> det par
>> sel par 6
>> det par
>> sel par 7
>> det par
>> sel par 8
>> det par
>> sel par 9
>> det par
>> sel dis 1
>> det dis
>> sel par 1
>> det par
>> sel par 2
>> det par
>> sel par 3
>> det par
>> sel par 4
>> det par
>> sel par 5
>> det par
>> sel par 6
>> det par
>> sel par 7
>> det par
>> sel par 8
>> det par
>> sel par 9
>> det par

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume3
path \EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-GB
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {ee659b88-92d9-11ea-bd53-cea10c052e67}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 10
locale en-GB
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a2177d98-92d1-11ea-9dcb-f28c07cc0171}
displaymessageoverride Recovery
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \WINDOWS
resumeobject {ee659b88-92d9-11ea-bd53-cea10c052e67}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:

Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition7\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: a2177d98-92d1-11ea-9dcb-f28c07cc0171
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.


Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DLSAMSUNG

DISKPART> lis dis

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 119 GB 799 MB *
Disk 1 Online 1863 GB 2048 KB *

DISKPART> lis vol

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 95 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 1 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 300 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 D NTFS Partition 1139 GB Healthy
Volume 3 E New Volume NTFS Partition 699 GB Healthy
Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 300 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel dis 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> det dis

LITEONIT LMT-128M6M
Disk ID: {C3F15D37-E104-4E6C-A743-340B5E51D09F}
Type : SATA
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C00T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : Yes
Pagefile Disk : Yes
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : Yes
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 95 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 1 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 300 MB Healthy System

DISKPART> sel par 1

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 1
Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0X8000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 838860800

There is no volume associated with this partition.

DISKPART> sel par 2

Partition 2 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 2
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 973078528

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 5 Windows RE NTFS Partition 499 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 3

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 3
Type : c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 1496317952

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 1 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 300 MB Healthy System

DISKPART> sel par 4

Partition 4 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 4
Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
Hidden : No
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 1810890752

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 95 GB Healthy Boot

DISKPART> sel par 5

Partition 5 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 5
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 104015593472

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 6 NTFS Partition 565 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 6

Partition 6 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 6
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 104608038912

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 7 NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 7

Partition 7 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 7
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 104975040512

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 8 SAMSUNG_REC NTFS Partition 20 GB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 8

Partition 8 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 8
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 126959484928

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 9 SAMSUNG_REC FAT32 Partition 1026 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 9

The specified partition is not valid.
Please select a valid partition.

There is no partition selected.

DISKPART> det par

There is no partition selected.
Please select a partition and try again.

DISKPART> sel dis 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> det dis

ATA Samsung SSD 860 SCSI Disk Device
Disk ID: {59DEEA60-4E2E-03AC-98BA-77968B13EB00}
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 2 D NTFS Partition 1139 GB Healthy
Volume 3 E New Volume NTFS Partition 699 GB Healthy
Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 300 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 1

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 1
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 1048576

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 10 Recovery NTFS Partition 499 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 2

Partition 2 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 2
Type : c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 524288000

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 300 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 3

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 3
Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 838860800

There is no volume associated with this partition.

DISKPART> sel par 4

Partition 4 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 4
Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
Hidden : No
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 973078528

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 2 D NTFS Partition 1139 GB Healthy

DISKPART> sel par 5

Partition 5 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 5
Type : ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
Hidden : No
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 1224765079552

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 3 E New Volume NTFS Partition 699 GB Healthy

DISKPART> sel par 6

Partition 6 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 6
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 1976384356352

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 11 NTFS Partition 452 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 7

Partition 7 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 7
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 1976860354048

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 12 SAMSUNG_REC NTFS Partition 20 GB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 8

Partition 8 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> det par

Partition 8
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : No
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 1999325110784

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 13 SAMSUNG_REC FAT32 Partition 1024 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> sel par 9

The specified partition is not valid.
Please select a valid partition.

There is no partition selected.

DISKPART> det par

For comparison please place the drive into the win 8.1 laptop and display:
a) the administrative command prompt results
b) mini tool results
c) file explorer results

If you are using Fast startup on the W8.1 PC, turn it off and restart (to ensure it has disconnected, so to speak), then look again.

zbook said:

For comparison please place the drive into the win 8.1 laptop and display:
a) the administrative command prompt results
b) mini tool results
c) file explorer results

Didn't realise this was going to be such an involved question. I just thought someone, who knows more than I, would tell me what I did wrong!

Will get the comparison sorted tomorrow as not about tonight.

- - - Updated - - -

Well, all I can say is "weird!!"

I just reinstalled the SSD into my win8.1 laptop to run the DISKPART scripts and screenshots so I can respond here, and the SSD partition structure all now looks as it should, and matches what shows in my Win10 machine, see below screenshots.




Go figure!

Thanks for taking the time to look into this for me. I'd love to know how it sorted itself out but I'm not complaining now it works. Next step, install Win10Pro on the SSD.

Cheers.

It may have needed a refresh / reboot.
Glad to see the result.
You are welcome.