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System/Boot files on different drives
New to these forums and hoping someone can help with my issue.
I have a homebuilt machine that had Win7 ultimate running on a 150GB HDD. I cloned it some time ago to a 500 GB HDD. Then I changed to Win10 Pro (first upgraded to Win8 and then immediately to Win10) and all seemed to be ok. I am wanting to upgrade to an SSD but have found this problem:
According to Disk Management, my Windows system and boot files are on different drives.
C: Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition (this is the 500GB)
Z: System, Active, Primary Partition (this is the old 150GB)
I can't seem to post an image (but attached pix) so if there is something else that will help, please advise.
I have gone through numerous attempts to fix this by rebuilding the BCD, cleaning up old install files and now when I boot up, I get a window asking which OS to boot (10 or 7). I want to get rid of the 150GB drive completely, but when I disconnect it I get the missing winload.exe blue screen so something isn't right with the Win10 Pro install.
I ask the community for help so I can move forward with an SSD upgrade.