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Replaced HDD, now Windows won't start
Wasn't sure where to post this, but this seemed like the right subforum for this since its installation/restore related.
A few weeks ago I was able to get a good deal on a new SSD to replace my old one. I chose to combine this with a fresh install since I was still on Windows 7 with a license I got from school, I quit school 6 years ago so bought a new Windows 10 key for the install.
Took the old SSD out and the new one in. I left my 2 HDD's plugged in aswell, big mistake. I installed Windows 10 and everything was fine appart from it constantly wanting to start the setup over again. I solved that and continued with the installation of drivers and software.
By coincidence my 2TB HDD started ticking and rattling shortly after the install. So I ordered a replacement drive with same capacity. I hooked up the new drive and started copying all the data from the old drive to the new one.
When that was done I shut down the computer, disconnected the old drive and on booting the pc again I was greeted by "Reboot and select proper boot device". No matter what I tried or what settings I edited in the BIOS/UEFI/whateveritscallednowadays, the pc wouldn't boot.
Untill the next day, when I decided to hookup the old, ticking and rattling HDD again. Booted fine, tested it again by shutting it down, disconnecting the drive and seeing it not wanting to boot.
Now, Windows' Disk Management shows the 2TB drive (which has never contained anything else but music, downloads, documents, photo's etc.) as 'System, Active, Primary Partition'. The new SSD with the actual Windows folders and all on it shows 'Boot, Pagefile, Crashdump, Primary Partition.
So apparently during installing Windows 10, it left something on the HDD even though I told Windows Setup to install on the SSD.
I tried disconnecting every drive except the SSD and run startup repair from the Windows 10 setup, but that just said 'Nope sorry, can't fix it'
Setup is as follows
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (used to be Crucial M4 128GB) with Windows 10 Professional 64-bit, language: Dutch
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB (used for installing games to prevent the SSD from filling up to quickly)
Western Digital Black 2TB (used to be Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB) contains downloads, music, the My Documents folder etc.)
Any idea's would be great, I'm no fan of reinstall Windows again now that I just got everything up and running again.