Moving Recovery partitions and EFI to new drive

Previously had a 256gb 2.5in SSD and a 1tb 3.tb HDD, with my OS being on the SSD. Recently bought an m.2 SSD. I booted windows onto the new m.2 with a thumb drive then reformatted my 2.5 SSD with hopes that windows would now boot from my m.2 and be erased from the 2.5. I have went to msconfig's boot tab and deleted the old drives boot option and set the new m.2 drives as the default. Everything boots fine even from a hard restart, BUT when in the BIOS, if I change the boot option to anything but the old 2.5in SSD, I cannot boot. Also previously there were problems booting where it would make me scan and repair and choose between which volume of windows to boot to.

You're booting from drive 2 - EFI partition and then transferring the boot sequence to C: (M.2).

Did you do a clean install on drive 0 (M.2) or did you transferred the C: from drive 2 (SSD) to the drive 0 (M.2)?
If so, how did you transferred the C: from drive 2 (SSD) to the drive 0 (M.2)?

Do you have MiniTool Partition Wizard?

Megahertz said:

You're booting from drive 2 - EFI partition and then transferring the boot sequence to C: (M.2).

Did you do a clean install on drive 0 (M.2) or did you transferred the C: from drive 2 (SSD) to the drive 0 (M.2)?
If so, how did you transferred the C: from drive 2 (SSD) to the drive 0 (M.2)?

Do you have MiniTool Partition Wizard?

Hello,
I did a clean install, I booted the windows installation media onto a thumb drive, then used that to create windows on my m.2. I tried to use minitool partition wizard at first but it was trying to make me pay to transfer operating systems so I did it manually.

You have to create a space on the M.2 drive for the EFI partition and the hidden (16M) partition.
Download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard This is free.
Post a disk image of the drives using Minitool

Megahertz said:

You have to create a space on the M.2 drive for the EFI partition and the hidden (16M) partition.
Download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard This is free.
Post a disk image of the drives using Minitool

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
Reagentc /disable

With Minitool, right click on the C: partition and select Move/resize. On the window that opens, move the right border till 800M on the field "Space after".


Right click on the unallocated space created, select create:
Size: 100M
Format Fat32
Label EFI
Drive letter T
Ok



Right click on the 700m unallocated space, select create:
Format NTFS
Label Recovery
Ok



On the left corner of Minitool hit apply.

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:

bcdboot C:\Windows /s T: /f UEFI

Shutdown, detach (SATA or power cable) of drives 1 and 2

It should now reboot using only drive M.2

Report

Megahertz said:

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
Reagentc /disable

With Minitool, right click on the C: partition and select Move/resize. On the window that opens, move the right border till 800M on the field "Space after".


Right click on the unallocated space created, select create:
Size: 100M
Format Fat32
Label EFI
Drive letter T
Ok



Right click on the 700m unallocated space, select create:
Format NTFS
Label Recovery
Ok



On the left corner of Minitool hit apply.

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:

bcdboot C:\Windows /s T: /f UEFI

Shutdown, detach (SATA or power cable) of drives 1 and 2

It should now reboot using only drive M.2

Report

sorry I am not good with things like this but 752.68 unallocated space after is as far as I can move the right border

Pay attention
That is because you're mixing G with M.
You have to shrink C: in 800M not 800G

Megahertz said:

Pay attention
That is because you're mixing G with M.
You have to shrink C: in 800M not 800G

Alright, I did everything. Shut down, then unplugged my SATA connections. Could not boot with the m.2. Went into BIOS. Changed Boot Option 1 back to my SSD and I'm back in Windows

Take a look in the esp partition which you previously labelled T.

What is in there?