After following some of the threads in here, I have the SSD successfully booting and cloned as the C: drive, with the former 1tb C: drive disconnected for now. I used Macrium Reflect after following...

Well, nothing really, other than the fact that I've been busy all day, and I just sat down and did what some of the other posts told me to in the last hour or so. That and thinking a clean install...

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PS C:\windows\system32> cd ..
PS C:\windows> cd ..
PS C:\> sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will...

Ok. For the long checklist that was posted there.... I'm not going to do all that, because there isn't a need to. I will do some of the steps. I'm not a laymen when it comes to working on Windows...

Alright so, with a few different options here posted... which one should I take to accomplish the SSD being the only boot drive..is what I'm trying to figure out. Good look, to you guys, I do...

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I did the Diskpart step that SWI2 explained in post #14 and rebooted, but I still see drive D having the system label.

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Didn't see the 2nd page yet today, thank you guys for your replies..

I don't need to use UEFI to boot, no. But when I shrunk the partition on C:, and was going to migrate the OS in USEase...

(@Cerebus) Maaan... I really, really want to avoid reinstalling everything with a clean win 10 install if that's possible. It looks like that's not possible from what you're saying, but the whole...

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The D: drive...Firecuda is 2TB, with only 400gb free. To add to the mess, My AsRock mobo has a UEFI bios, so there's a conflict there if I try to clone the drive to the new ssd.

The only reason I said that is because there are a few problems with doing that how you've laid it out. I'm not a novice pc user. The SSD is smaller than the C: drive, by a large amount. The D:...

Sorry, but I don't know if you didn't read the post or if I didn't give you enough information. I have 3 drives already, and they are all much larger (C: 1TB, D:2TB, E:500gb) than the ssd. The D:...

So, without getting into all the technical details before anyone replies, I just bought a 240gig OCZ ssd, to put the OS on to improve performance. I have 3 hdd's installed, and one is a Firecuda, so...