Boot, reboot possible only by CD ROM repair disk.

C drive was moved to Disk 1 during MS assisted reinstall of W10 Pro 64 bit. Now corrupted? No restart. Move back to 0 drive? 0 drive is SSD and where I would like my boot file and such. When MS guided me through repair/custom install by first making a USB/HDD repair drive I now see C: drive is located on an old spinning? drive partition on disk 1. After custom repair I can now only boot from my CD rom repair disk created after the reset. I am hesitant to do a clean install as I lost my office suite including office outlook during the last repair and had to wrestle with MS for over a week to get it reinstalled. Thoughts PLEASE.

It seems like you'd benefit from real-time support, which is not what you get from a forum.

If I understand things correctly, your PC has an SSD and an HDD. You want Windows to be on the SSD. Somehow, you've managed to install it to the HDD, although not properly, as it's not bootable.

If it was my system, I'd disconnect the spinner, and do a clean install to the SSD. That may be awkward for you if you don't have installation media for your essential programs, and you lack backups for your critical data.

Which version of MS Office do you have? Do you know? If you lack installation media for it, it may be possible to download an .iso.

Do you have any friends who could help you with this in person? (Assuming any are willing to break the CV isolation recommendations, if you live in an area where they apply.)

I don't have any media except the USB that MS support helped me create. It is a validated Windows 10 Pro 64 bit purchased from MS but I did not choose the option for the purchase of the HD media at the time of purchase. Trying to save the $20 or so at the time now has me with headachs. I think the USB I created may be an iso whatever that is. I came to this forum because MS tech support is very hard to connect with now. Thanks for your suggestions but I'm not sure if I could complete them without a mistake. I would have to lug the monster size desktop to the PC repair store.

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I will try to post a snip of what is in the USB media created.

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My disk mgager.

You might check out the tutorials here. (Sadly, the search function is poor, IMHO. I use a Google search that includes the phrase "windows 10 forums".)

Clean install: Clean Install Windows 10

Creating USB installation media: Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10

The Media Creation Tool is the most nearly automatic method. You can run it from any Windows PC (Win 7 or later).

I see another post ("Spunk") has popped up while I'm composing this. A quick look suggests that it's good advice, but I suspect that if you were able to follow it, you wouldn't need it.

spunk said:

Boot into Setup (Bios). Go to the Boot tab, make Disk 1, the 500 GB HDD the first boot drive. Save and Exit. Try and boot the computer. If that doesn't work then, put the USB Windows installer in the computer and go back to Setup (Bios) and choose the USB Flash Drive as First Boot device, Save and Exit. In the Installer, choose your Language, then Repair Your Computer.
That should allow you to boot into Disk 1 and the C: drive. If there is nothing on the G: drive you want, then download Macrium Reflect. In the software Create a Bootable USB Flash Rescue disk. Boot off of this Rescue USB and then make a clone of the Source Disk 1, the 500 GB HDD with C: on it. Include all partitions. Make the Destination drive the 256 GB SSD. When complete, unplug the 500 GB HDD are restart, the computer should boot from the SSD. If this is successful, then shut down, plug in the 500GB HDD and boot into Setup (Bios) Make sure the SSD is the First Boot drive, Save and Exit. The computer should boot from the SSD and you should see your 500GB HDD. Make sure everything is perfect in the SSD, then you can format the HDD and use it for storage.

Thank you muchly. My MB gives me lots of boot 1-2-3 options but as I remember it I have not seen any options in the BIOS that gives options with which of my disk as an option to boot from. Options are HDD, floppy, LS120, CDROM, USB-HDD, USB??? about 3 or four different USB options. Nothing listing such as disk 0, disk 1, and disk 2. Also I have many partitions within the disk. I may be wrong but could my problem be that my boot drive is not located in disc 0, C: drive? I don't have much software savvy and to unplug my SATA drives I must go inside the tower. I have a Macrium Reflect copy on one of those partitions but can't remember if it is a clone or a mirror image.

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bobkn said:

You might check out the tutorials here. (Sadly, the search function is poor, IMHO. I use a Google search that includes the phrase "windows 10 forums".)


Clean install: Clean Install Windows 10

Creating USB installation media: Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10

The Media Creation Tool is the most nearly automatic method. You can run it from any Windows PC (Win 7 or later).

I see another post ("Spunk") has popped up while I'm composing this. A quick look suggests that it's good advice, but I suspect that if you were able to follow it, you wouldn't need it.

Thank you bobkn. The Media Creation Tool is what MS support had me download onto the USB then walked me through a bootable flash drive on to the same USB. It boots under USB-HDD if I so recall but somehow MS put my boot on disk 1 instead of disk 0. Just gussing but could that be the problem?

My PC is now at a repair shop. Thanks for all the post. I will try to post my final outcome.