I just want to say a big THANKYOU for this. I have struggled with this problem for the past 2 days and there is so much bad info out there on how to do this. You are the first that explained the right way to do this.
A big thanks from me as well for the exact same reasons! Two days of troubleshooting and this was the one piece of the puzzle missing from all of the other explanations I found! Your instruction was clear and succinct without digressing into tangents or skimming over important details for those of us who don't (or didn't) know how to do this.
I had exactly the same issue, my primary SSD had bad sectors and I got a new SSD, to make sure new SSD is healthy, I connected it to the PC and ran few checks. After that I reinstalled OS on the new SSD and after few hours I realised the mess i was in… I checked in TH-cam and after going through few unrelated issues landed on this link…. Blindly followed the process and got the issue resolved… thank you for the great tutorial 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💐
My man, huge thank you for this video. I was unable to install Windows 11 as my drive was set up as an MBR. When trying to use the MBR2GPT tool I always got validation errors even though I was attempting to use it on my OS drive and had less than three partitions. I noticed that my boot drive was on a different disk than my OS drive which cause the tool to fail. I transferred the boot drive to the OS drive and I can happily say my system is finally updated to Windows 11. ¡MASSIVE THANKS AGAIN!
Thank you so much, I was looking for a solution to my issue everywhere, someone told me I have to reinstall windows, I was like what!! bro your explanation is just so simple and so clear and so effective, thank you again.
Finally! I tried other third-party stuff like EaseUS and Aomei and found them extremely cumbersome and cluttered. This right here solved my System Reserve Partition move problem. I didn't even follow the steps for changing recovery drive since it is already in my preferred disk. I just followed the changing of system reserved and it worked flawlessly. Thank you very much!
@@theapplecanfly there's the cmd command stuff in this video where the boot files are generated on your new drive. it was before the recovery drive stuff.
@@theapplecanfly make sure to mark the old system reserved drive as inactive FIRST before deleting! if your system is able to boot with the old system reserved drive inactive, then that means your PC is now booting through the new drive. Then you can delete the old system reserved partition. for the recovery stuff, that depends if you want it to be in the same drive as the recovery drive. I just ignored it because my only concern is to move my system reserved partition from my mechanical drive to my SSD. But the two stuff are not related at all, you can do one or the other without having to do the other.
I was using a GPT formatted disk for this issue and with a bit of help from chatgpt I got it working. The disk on its own is not said as Primary Partition instead Basic Data Partition and the new 1 GB of space you create will be called data partition and you also can not set it to active. You also don't have to disable the other disks system partition just unplug it at the next restart so the system doesn't even search it. When you list the partitions in DISKPART you will get the Type correctly listing system instead of Primary like in the video. The partitions Type is different on GPT so instead of 27 FOR ME it was EFI System partition: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b (that's the ID you need). It may wary so you can enter the HELP SET command and it lists everything you need. I'm not a pro so this may not be correct information for everyone, make sure to check online for more guides if you're unsure.
Thank you so much bro, I confirmed with my old HDD and the EFI System partition had the exact same ID as the one you listed. I then just set the new partition on my new hard disk to have that ID, overrided it and then restarted PC. I also unplugged my old disk to make sure I'm booting off of the new one only plus I also set the new disk as the default boot in the bios setting. Everything is working great and I no longer need my old disk to boot. I'll leave it unplugged for now or maybe in the future reformat it and use it as a file backup. Again, thank you very much kind stranger.
A big thanks to you as I was not expecting someone will ever explain it which I was searching for a long time. Finally I found what I was actually looking for... A big relief for me now.... 🤗 It would have been great if I could get all the "System", "MSR(Reserved)" and "Recovery" to the SSD which I recently inserted by replacing HDD..... Even I installed windows to my SSD, all these "System", "MSR(Reserved)" and "Recovery" was still in HDD and as my HDD had some issues, it shows that no bootable device found in the startup 😢.... Now I got to know this was the exact reason why I was facing the issue...
you saved me, so many turorials and nothing, my HD has reading problems so i want to remove this HD but my boot was in there somehow and i found your video just in time, thank you!!!
Fixed my issue I had been struggling with all day! Couldn't get my cloned drive to boot then I noticed the system and boot partitions were on different drives. Thanks a lot
Thank you so much for this tutorial, you really helped me out! By answering some of the questions in the comments, you solved a couple other problems I had. Legend!
This tutorial fixed my problem completely, I was so scared I would have to reset my pc and lose data to fix this issue. This will allow me to make my drive uefi after accidentally installing from the legacy usb lol. Thanks so much for your help!
Wow!! This helped. I just went through 2 days of work installing windows and all my apps on to a new SSD after I was unable to boot off my current one (possibly a corrupt boot sector). After all that work, I began to clean up the other drives that were on the workstation. Everything looked great and I shut down. When I tried to restart, the system would not boot. I went to a recovery command windows and, using Diskpart, discovered that there was not boot sector or information on the new drive. I found this post and realized that I had already formatted the drive that had help my boot information. I then removed all my drives and left the old drive in. I installed windows 11 to that drive. I then reattached my new drive where I had previously installed windows and all my apps. I booted from the Windows start USB (or DVD), and opened the Console again. What I found is that Windows did not create a System Partition on the new bootable installation. Instead in place all the boot files on the single Primary Partition. I found those file (dir /a:h /a:s....) and copied them to the Primary (and only) partition on my target drive. You may need to clear the System, Hidden attributes to do this, and then reset them on the target after the copy. I removed the temporary windows installation drive. I was able to see the new drive as bootable in my BIOS (positive sign!!!) When I rebooted, windows could not start and presented a message suggesting that I start from recovery disk. I started again from the installation USB and went to "Repair" . It immediately rebooted. I removed the installation USB and it booted from the new Drive. Is it OK to have everything on my Primary partition? Disk Management shows a single partition marked System, Boot, Page File, Active, Dump, Primary Partition) Should I shrink that and move everything to a separate partition, or just leave it alone.
This made my PC unbootable. It gave the error "No bootable device found" at the start. If someone went into the same issue after following the above steps you can recover the system with a Windows DVD or a bootable USB. Plug in the bootable device and boot from that device. Then go to the repair. Where you can open a command prompt and reverse what you have done previously. (just activating the old 'active' partition and making the newly activated partition 'inactive').
Make sure you understand what you are doing and have activated the right EFI Partition ("system reserved volume). It is a good idea to completely follow a guide first, or even better use a written guide. Modifying and moving windows boot partitions is a very annoying subject, and should be undertaken with great care.
It is better to make a separate partition (volume) for your Users folder so that it does not get removed if you have to reinstall windows and delete files, or it the windows partition got corrupted (rare, but still)
This saved my ass.. used my bootable drive ..and cmd.. do we know why this failed us? What did we miss... I still want to move this over from disc0 to this new part and set active.. what's our best bet here?
Just wanted to add my thanks to the many here. I have an older computer, with an SSD I'd already put in as a boot drive, and two somewhat old HDDs. I wanted to replace the HDDs in case of failure, as they are getting on for 15 years old at least, and had an older SSD to hand. Despite having told it to boot from the first SSD (and I'd always assumed that it was doing so), it was actually booting from the HDD but, it seems, writing to the SSD after that. Trying to boot from the SSD directly would always result in failure ("reboot and select proper boot device"). I seemed to remember having this issue when I put the first SSD in. As I was cloning all the HDDs onto the second SSD, I didn't need to make the old partition on the HDD inactive (as it'd boot off the second SSD in that case, I assume - but I just made sure my boot priorities are set properly in the BIOS). So I just needed to shrink the volume on the first SSD, create a new partition from that freed up space, format that partition, and then I used the BCDBOOT command as directed to create the necessary boot files on the new partition. There was already a recovery partition on there so I assume I am now all set. I've tried it a few times and things seem OK with no HDDs attached anymore. :)
Thank you. This video is perfect from video to audio. Windows decided to install the system reserved partition on my HDD and not the SSD windows is on, and my HDD is failing so I had a lot of trouble getting into windows Thank you very much
Thank you very much! I wanted to change out my old hardrives for newer ones, and was curious why I couldn't boot anymore, as my Main drive for Windows is an SSD. Now I saw, that that partition was created on one of those harddrives, but my recovery was on C. Must have happend, when I upgraded from Win 7 to 10, because back in the day under windows 7 I didn't have any problem with changing out harddrives. Thank you very much! I am glad that I didn't need to install any weird third-party-software.
nice tutorial m8 really appreciate, i just upgraded my 4 yo gaming laptop to 2tb cuz why not, thank god i bought a SATA dock. but couldn't do it without your tutorial
Hi there, I have an issue with this method, so basically i have a SSD set as C: with my active windows there and aside from the main partition I have a recovery partition with like 500 MB the same as yours, yet I have my system reserved partition on my HDD which is D: in my case. I've followed your guide very clearly yet when I type in reagentc /info to view the primary boot partition it's set to disk 0 (my SSD) partition 3 (The 500 mb recovery partition) even though i clearly disabled the system reserved in my HDD. I went ahead and changed the ID to 7 for my 500 MB recovery partition and even inactivated it yet it still pops up there. What do I do?
3 Thumbs up!! I couldn't install windows 11 because Boot partition was on another drive than the Windows 10 OS drive, this solved the problem! Followed by a mbr2gpt convertion obviously..
Thank you, your video is very comprehensive however my problem is slightly different. I have 2 SSD, Vol 0 is MBR, that contains my Reserve system only. My Vol 1 is GPT, that contains my OS, Recovery and EFI. I tried to move the Reserve system but I can't activate the GPT partition created as GPT doesn't understand. I also tried to use the MBR2GPT on Vol 0 but that doesn't work. Is there a way a way to make this happen without doing a full reinstall? Trying to prep my system for Win11. Thanks again.
Create a new windows on the pc u need MBR u need gpt convert this in cmd Repair ur GPT windows with CMD In new convertet gpt system and watch the video again
Thank you very much for your explanation, I was struggling as well for the last two days as part of the Windows 11 update, as I could not get the Secure Boot because of Disk 0 not having an OS system...
Hi, After following your steps very carefully, now I cannot boot my PC anymore... it used to work.... and I only wanted to move it because I got a new hard drive... I have tried to use Windows installation media to startup repair, and it didn't work. I have also tried to use Windows PE to undo the changes, and it also didn''t work. Now I am ending up with a Black Screen with a fleshing Underscore or UEFI setting page... Can you please help?.... it is 2:30 AM... and I am very despairing right now...
When i restart. my pc go to bios and When i do boot override to Get it to start on my c drive it kicks me back into bios. I dident diactivate the other primary reserv but unpluged that hard drive. my c drive alredy hade the recovery partition so that step to move that i also skiped.,
Thank you so mutch!!!!! i had so mutch difficulty finding a clear awnser online to my problem and boom, exactly what i needed. Again thank you very mutch and for me im gonna go enjoy windows 11 xD
My boot loader is on my old Windows 10 M.2 drive. While Windows 11 is on my new one. The recovery partition is on the right new m.2 drive, but the bootloader is on the old. Is the bootloader on the 100MB (EFI System Partition)? Can I shrink my new Windows 11 m.2 installation and do the steps you mentioned to create bootloader on it? Or so it can boot, since it can't if I deactivate the old M.2 drive in BIOS. It needs to load that bootloader in order to be able to boot into new WIndows. Should I just shrink it at 100-150MB, so there is space for the bootloader, or does it take up more space? Kind regards
I have problem. I have some D: partition and a shrink to become twice, but the other partition is empty but used maybe 10GB. i was rechecked it was System and Reserved. how solution to cut this system operational to the other partition?
Hello sir thank you for your informative video I found it super helpful. But I have a problem after moving the system reserved partition to my ssd. When I type reagentc /info the location of recovery keeps showing in disk 0 partition 1 even though the system reserved partition is in disk 0 partition 2. How do I fix this sir? I re enabled reagentc twice like shown in the video but it doesn't change.
Hello Army! It seem that somhow after I installed a new 2TB M.2 Card then installed a New Win 10 Pro a System Reserved Drive (K) & (L) have appeared on one of three of my SSD Storage Drives (M)! My PC used to boot & shut down fast but now am experiencing all kinds of Start Up issues! Do you think IfvI attempt to migrate the two Reserved Drives (K) & (L) to my new M.2 2TB (C) Drive my PC will once again will Start Up & Shut Down fast with no issues again?
Just bought a used PC off Ebay that has two SSDs with the system partition on the disk that I want to remove so these instructions should help me move it.
Tank a lot!! I already had the OS and recovery-partition in my SSD, so I only did the first part in this video. Very happy with it! Question: Because i skipped the latter part I am left with the letter searchway f: on my new system reserved partition and I am asking for advice if it is safe to remove the letter searchway (gives me a warning, followed by another warning when i try). Thanks! Edit: I successfully removed it. Thanks anyway
Great videos: I have about 8 partitions in my laptop and memory is getting very slow not sure which ones should I delete to free some space: partition ### size partition 1 recover 1000 KB partition 2 system 260 MB partition 3 reserved 128 MB partition 4 primary 215 GB partition 5 recovery 451 MB partition 6 recovery 350 MB partition 7 recovery 13 GB partition 8 OEM 7168 MB
I have the issue 'mbr2gpt cannot find OS partition(s) for disk 0' , thing is that I have the system reserved to disk 0 (no OS) whereas I have the OS in Disk 1 without the system reserved (just the OS+the Recovery partition only) having the exact same wrong allocation as in the video,. If I will follow this guide will the Mbr2gpt conversion work? thx
i'm stuck at the point where i mark the new partition as "active". it doesnt allow me to do that from the GUI so does that mean I need to run a command from the prompt? and if so what would that command line be? I'm having the issue where my pc blue screens when starting from cold shutdown but will boot into windows after a hard restart. took me a while to figure out the cause and came up on your video which makes sense but whats weird is that i've had my drives set up this way for about a year now with zero issues until a few days ago. the only thing i know changed was a windows update that had installed the last time i shut it down before this problem started.
Hello my pc will no longer boot. Even though my windows was installed on my m.2 and my hardrive doesnt work because i disabled how do i get my nvnme to boot
What if my recovery partition is located on the disk where the OS sits already? Do I just have to inactivate the System Reserved partition and activate the recovery partition? The id of the recovery partition is already 27.
For some reason it still won't boot off new system disk par. I keep having to activate disk 0 to boot back into windows. I have tried these steps multiple times. Not sure what to do at this point.
Help please my pc will no longer boot. Windows was installed on nvme but the system would boot it from hard drive. I did this now my hardrive nor nvme will boot into windows
It helped me greatly to relocate the system reserved drive to my 970 evo+ from my old ssd, but I'm having another issue prior to that. Suddenly my windows loading time has become 25-30 seconds from 3-5 seconds. Any ideas how I can mitigate this issue? after bios loading, windows logo should not be loading for 25-30 seconds in 970 evo+. FYI, all other drives are at 100% health and the nvme is as fast as day 1 in everything else except the windows loading. Thanks and any solution is appreciated.
There could be many reasons for that. Ensure SSD is first in the boot priority. Partition alignment could be another reason. Sure shot solution is fresh installation.
Thank you for the tutorial - it worked; however, my PC has become very slow and now my HDD from which I transferred the partition is always at 100% use when I open task manager. Do you know why and how to fix this issue? Please respond. Thanks.
Hello! If my recovery partition is already in the drive that i want and only want to move the system reserved, Can i skip the setid=27 part? I noticed it changed to recovery from primary when you did it.
I just want to say a big THANKYOU for this. I have struggled with this problem for the past 2 days and there is so much bad info out there on how to do this. You are the first that explained the right way to do this.
You are most welcome. I know that there is very less information available on this topic and I try my best to provide solution using built in tools.
A big thanks from me as well for the exact same reasons! Two days of troubleshooting and this was the one piece of the puzzle missing from all of the other explanations I found! Your instruction was clear and succinct without digressing into tangents or skimming over important details for those of us who don't (or didn't) know how to do this.
Amazing! I am so glad that I found this video. Straight forward and easy to understand no matter what your level.
This is great - very clear and to the point without too many detail. Great job!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! I went for days and through dozens of videos and forums and this was the one that saved me!!!!!
I had exactly the same issue, my primary SSD had bad sectors and I got a new SSD, to make sure new SSD is healthy, I connected it to the PC and ran few checks. After that I reinstalled OS on the new SSD and after few hours I realised the mess i was in… I checked in TH-cam and after going through few unrelated issues landed on this link…. Blindly followed the process and got the issue resolved… thank you for the great tutorial 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💐
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
THANK YOU!!! 3 weeks and everyone I ask looking at me like I have 2 heads when I asked for help on this. you are a life saver
Glad I could help!
Holy shit, THANK YOU. Seriously no way I could've done this without this video
followed you, just because you did this to help people. That deserves something. Thanks!
Thank you so much for taking time to comment and sub
My man, huge thank you for this video. I was unable to install Windows 11 as my drive was set up as an MBR. When trying to use the MBR2GPT tool I always got validation errors even though I was attempting to use it on my OS drive and had less than three partitions. I noticed that my boot drive was on a different disk than my OS drive which cause the tool to fail. I transferred the boot drive to the OS drive and I can happily say my system is finally updated to Windows 11. ¡MASSIVE THANKS AGAIN!
Thank you so much, I was looking for a solution to my issue everywhere, someone told me I have to reinstall windows, I was like what!! bro your explanation is just so simple and so clear and so effective, thank you again.
Finally! I tried other third-party stuff like EaseUS and Aomei and found them extremely cumbersome and cluttered. This right here solved my System Reserve Partition move problem. I didn't even follow the steps for changing recovery drive since it is already in my preferred disk. I just followed the changing of system reserved and it worked flawlessly. Thank you very much!
Hey which part is the system reserved part? my recovery is already in the right place but i dont know where to go from with the system partition
@@theapplecanfly there's the cmd command stuff in this video where the boot files are generated on your new drive. it was before the recovery drive stuff.
@@MrSiloterio okay so i made the new boot files in the place, so now i ingore the recovery stuff and deactive the old one?
@@theapplecanfly make sure to mark the old system reserved drive as inactive FIRST before deleting! if your system is able to boot with the old system reserved drive inactive, then that means your PC is now booting through the new drive. Then you can delete the old system reserved partition.
for the recovery stuff, that depends if you want it to be in the same drive as the recovery drive. I just ignored it because my only concern is to move my system reserved partition from my mechanical drive to my SSD.
But the two stuff are not related at all, you can do one or the other without having to do the other.
@@MrSiloterio thank you i wont delete the old one for now but it boots with the new one!
THANK YOU JESUS my hard drive was coming to its end and the drive had the system reserved on it and this tutorial HELPED still works BTY.
Thank you! Short, sweet, understandable. Solved my problem!
Glad it helped!
My man you deserve and award. Thank you for the video it definitely helped me, and you make it super easy. Keep it up!
Glad I could help!
I was using a GPT formatted disk for this issue and with a bit of help from chatgpt I got it working. The disk on its own is not said as Primary Partition instead Basic Data Partition and the new 1 GB of space you create will be called data partition and you also can not set it to active. You also don't have to disable the other disks system partition just unplug it at the next restart so the system doesn't even search it. When you list the partitions in DISKPART you will get the Type correctly listing system instead of Primary like in the video. The partitions Type is different on GPT so instead of 27 FOR ME it was EFI System partition: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b (that's the ID you need). It may wary so you can enter the HELP SET command and it lists everything you need. I'm not a pro so this may not be correct information for everyone, make sure to check online for more guides if you're unsure.
Thank you. This is a very important step because if not set correctly, a non-valid ID will result in broken Windows updates.
Thank you so much bro, I confirmed with my old HDD and the EFI System partition had the exact same ID as the one you listed. I then just set the new partition on my new hard disk to have that ID, overrided it and then restarted PC. I also unplugged my old disk to make sure I'm booting off of the new one only plus I also set the new disk as the default boot in the bios setting. Everything is working great and I no longer need my old disk to boot. I'll leave it unplugged for now or maybe in the future reformat it and use it as a file backup. Again, thank you very much kind stranger.
A big thanks to you as I was not expecting someone will ever explain it which I was searching for a long time. Finally I found what I was actually looking for... A big relief for me now.... 🤗 It would have been great if I could get all the "System", "MSR(Reserved)" and "Recovery" to the SSD which I recently inserted by replacing HDD..... Even I installed windows to my SSD, all these "System", "MSR(Reserved)" and "Recovery" was still in HDD and as my HDD had some issues, it shows that no bootable device found in the startup 😢.... Now I got to know this was the exact reason why I was facing the issue...
you saved me, so many turorials and nothing, my HD has reading problems so i want to remove this HD but my boot was in there somehow and i found your video just in time, thank you!!!
I just want to move system reserved to my other disk because recovery partition is already in the right place
Fixed my issue I had been struggling with all day! Couldn't get my cloned drive to boot then I noticed the system and boot partitions were on different drives. Thanks a lot
Glad I could help
Thank you so much for this tutorial, you really helped me out! By answering some of the questions in the comments, you solved a couple other problems I had. Legend!
Glad I could help!
This tutorial fixed my problem completely, I was so scared I would have to reset my pc and lose data to fix this issue. This will allow me to make my drive uefi after accidentally installing from the legacy usb lol. Thanks so much for your help!
Great to hear!
Sir, you are amazing. Thank you so much. Incredibly straight forward and well made video.
Thanks for watching!
This worked perfectly, thanks ever so much. You Sir, are a star. Stay safe.
Glad it helped
You just saved my day
Appreciated man ❤️
Knowledge is everything
Happy to help. Thanks for taking time to comment.
You are a lifesaver! You're a champ. Great video !!
Wow!! This helped. I just went through 2 days of work installing windows and all my apps on to a new SSD after I was unable to boot off my current one (possibly a corrupt boot sector).
After all that work, I began to clean up the other drives that were on the workstation. Everything looked great and I shut down.
When I tried to restart, the system would not boot. I went to a recovery command windows and, using Diskpart, discovered that there was not boot sector or information on the new drive.
I found this post and realized that I had already formatted the drive that had help my boot information.
I then removed all my drives and left the old drive in.
I installed windows 11 to that drive.
I then reattached my new drive where I had previously installed windows and all my apps.
I booted from the Windows start USB (or DVD), and opened the Console again.
What I found is that Windows did not create a System Partition on the new bootable installation. Instead in place all the boot files on the single Primary Partition.
I found those file (dir /a:h /a:s....) and copied them to the Primary (and only) partition on my target drive. You may need to clear the System, Hidden attributes to do this, and then reset them on the target after the copy.
I removed the temporary windows installation drive.
I was able to see the new drive as bootable in my BIOS (positive sign!!!)
When I rebooted, windows could not start and presented a message suggesting that I start from recovery disk.
I started again from the installation USB and went to "Repair" . It immediately rebooted.
I removed the installation USB and it booted from the new Drive.
Is it OK to have everything on my Primary partition? Disk Management shows a single partition marked System, Boot, Page File, Active, Dump, Primary Partition)
Should I shrink that and move everything to a separate partition, or just leave it alone.
Update: I ran "mbr2gpt /convert /allowFullOS" on the new disk and it created a partition and moved the boot information.
This was incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Sir, you are a Rock star. Thx for the Help.
Thanks I have found this video and my problem completely resolved! A big big thank to you 👍👍👍
You're welcome!
Amazing! I am so glat that I found this video. I am very thankful for this tutorial. you really helped me out!
Glad it helped!
This made my PC unbootable. It gave the error "No bootable device found" at the start. If someone went into the same issue after following the above steps you can recover the system with a Windows DVD or a bootable USB. Plug in the bootable device and boot from that device. Then go to the repair. Where you can open a command prompt and reverse what you have done previously. (just activating the old 'active' partition and making the newly activated partition 'inactive').
thank you so much dude!! you really saved me and my pc :D
Make sure you understand what you are doing and have activated the right EFI Partition ("system reserved volume). It is a good idea to completely follow a guide first, or even better use a written guide.
Modifying and moving windows boot partitions is a very annoying subject, and should be undertaken with great care.
It is better to make a separate partition (volume) for your Users folder so that it does not get removed if you have to reinstall windows and delete files, or it the windows partition got corrupted (rare, but still)
Mine too. Now I have to get a bootable usb
This saved my ass.. used my bootable drive ..and cmd.. do we know why this failed us? What did we miss... I still want to move this over from disc0 to this new part and set active.. what's our best bet here?
DUDE YOU ARE BASICALLY MY LIFE SAVER THANK YOU !!
You're welcome!
Just wanted to add my thanks to the many here. I have an older computer, with an SSD I'd already put in as a boot drive, and two somewhat old HDDs. I wanted to replace the HDDs in case of failure, as they are getting on for 15 years old at least, and had an older SSD to hand. Despite having told it to boot from the first SSD (and I'd always assumed that it was doing so), it was actually booting from the HDD but, it seems, writing to the SSD after that. Trying to boot from the SSD directly would always result in failure ("reboot and select proper boot device"). I seemed to remember having this issue when I put the first SSD in.
As I was cloning all the HDDs onto the second SSD, I didn't need to make the old partition on the HDD inactive (as it'd boot off the second SSD in that case, I assume - but I just made sure my boot priorities are set properly in the BIOS). So I just needed to shrink the volume on the first SSD, create a new partition from that freed up space, format that partition, and then I used the BCDBOOT command as directed to create the necessary boot files on the new partition. There was already a recovery partition on there so I assume I am now all set. I've tried it a few times and things seem OK with no HDDs attached anymore. :)
Thanks so much for this. That was extremely helpful.
This is what i looking for. Thank you so much. You are Great. 👍👍
You're welcome!
Master, excellent tutorial, followed perfectly, and successfully. Thnaks a lot!
Glad it helped!
Thank you. This video is perfect from video to audio. Windows decided to install the system reserved partition on my HDD and not the SSD windows is on, and my HDD is failing so I had a lot of trouble getting into windows
Thank you very much
Glad it helped
@@itarmy2778 in Germany we would say "ich küss dein Auge"
Great detail in the video, worked perfect for me.
Great to hear!
Thank you very much! I wanted to change out my old hardrives for newer ones, and was curious why I couldn't boot anymore, as my Main drive for Windows is an SSD. Now I saw, that that partition was created on one of those harddrives, but my recovery was on C. Must have happend, when I upgraded from Win 7 to 10, because back in the day under windows 7 I didn't have any problem with changing out harddrives. Thank you very much! I am glad that I didn't need to install any weird third-party-software.
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You my friend are Legendary ! I tried everything to make the stupid drive GPT and all it took was putting the boot on the same drive. Wow hahaha
nice tutorial m8 really appreciate, i just upgraded my 4 yo gaming laptop to 2tb cuz why not, thank god i bought a SATA dock. but couldn't do it without your tutorial
and i made my "SYSTEM RESERVED" to be 2 gb, cuz i dint want to go through the hassle of changing the value later on
Glad I could help
Thanks a lot brother. U just saved my ass over here.
you have saved my life thank you so much .....👍👍👍
Very helpful. I successfully did all of it and success! Thankyou so much!
Glad it helped!
Hi there, I have an issue with this method, so basically i have a SSD set as C: with my active windows there and aside from the main partition I have a recovery partition with like 500 MB the same as yours, yet I have my system reserved partition on my HDD which is D: in my case. I've followed your guide very clearly yet when I type in reagentc /info to view the primary boot partition it's set to disk 0 (my SSD) partition 3 (The 500 mb recovery partition) even though i clearly disabled the system reserved in my HDD. I went ahead and changed the ID to 7 for my 500 MB recovery partition and even inactivated it yet it still pops up there. What do I do?
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Great video. Helped me enormously!
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3 Thumbs up!! I couldn't install windows 11 because Boot partition was on another drive than the Windows 10 OS drive, this solved the problem! Followed by a mbr2gpt convertion obviously..
I'm glad!
Life saver! Thanks for posting!
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man thank you so much you are truly a life saver. thank you!
You are most welcome
cheers dude saved me hours of rebuilding stuff
cheers!
Thank you, your video is very comprehensive however my problem is slightly different. I have 2 SSD, Vol 0 is MBR, that contains my Reserve system only. My Vol 1 is GPT, that contains my OS, Recovery and EFI. I tried to move the Reserve system but I can't activate the GPT partition created as GPT doesn't understand. I also tried to use the MBR2GPT on Vol 0 but that doesn't work. Is there a way a way to make this happen without doing a full reinstall? Trying to prep my system for Win11. Thanks again.
Create a new windows on the pc u need MBR u need gpt convert this in cmd Repair ur GPT windows with CMD
In new convertet gpt system and watch the video again
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Thank you very much for your explanation, I was struggling as well for the last two days as part of the Windows 11 update, as I could not get the Secure Boot because of Disk 0 not having an OS system...
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Excellent video! Saved me having to reinstall Windows 10.
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my hero of this year
thanks so much
Thanks for watching!
you are my savior! THANK YOU
Happy to help!
you're a life saver big thank you
Welcome!
Same here. Very helpful, thanks!
Hi, After following your steps very carefully, now I cannot boot my PC anymore...
it used to work.... and I only wanted to move it because I got a new hard drive...
I have tried to use Windows installation media to startup repair, and it didn't work.
I have also tried to use Windows PE to undo the changes, and it also didn''t work.
Now I am ending up with a Black Screen with a fleshing Underscore or UEFI setting page...
Can you please help?.... it is 2:30 AM... and I am very despairing right now...
You helped me a lot, thanks you genius.
Happy to help
many thanks brother, helped me out a ton!
You're welcome!
first time doing it so great instructions it worked fine
Great to hear!
When i restart. my pc go to bios and When i do boot override to Get it to start on my c drive it kicks me back into bios. I dident diactivate the other primary reserv but unpluged that hard drive. my c drive alredy hade the recovery partition so that step to move that i also skiped.,
Boot using Windows USB and try automatic repair
Thank you so mutch!!!!! i had so mutch difficulty finding a clear awnser online to my problem and boom, exactly what i needed. Again thank you very mutch and for me im gonna go enjoy windows 11 xD
Glad it helped!
My boot loader is on my old Windows 10 M.2 drive. While Windows 11 is on my new one. The recovery partition is on the right new m.2 drive, but the bootloader is on the old. Is the bootloader on the 100MB (EFI System Partition)? Can I shrink my new Windows 11 m.2 installation and do the steps you mentioned to create bootloader on it? Or so it can boot, since it can't if I deactivate the old M.2 drive in BIOS. It needs to load that bootloader in order to be able to boot into new WIndows. Should I just shrink it at 100-150MB, so there is space for the bootloader, or does it take up more space?
Kind regards
Man you are a hero.
Thanks!
I have problem. I have some D: partition and a shrink to become twice, but the other partition is empty but used maybe 10GB. i was rechecked it was System and Reserved. how solution to cut this system operational to the other partition?
Hello sir thank you for your informative video I found it super helpful. But I have a problem after moving the system reserved partition to my ssd. When I type reagentc /info the location of recovery keeps showing in disk 0 partition 1 even though the system reserved partition is in disk 0 partition 2. How do I fix this sir? I re enabled reagentc twice like shown in the video but it doesn't change.
You are the best. You know what you are talking about
Thanks for watching
Hello Army! It seem that somhow after I installed a new 2TB M.2 Card then installed a New Win 10 Pro a System Reserved Drive (K) & (L) have appeared on one of three of my SSD Storage Drives (M)! My PC used to boot & shut down fast but now am experiencing all kinds of Start Up issues! Do you think IfvI attempt to migrate the two Reserved Drives (K) & (L) to my new M.2 2TB (C) Drive my PC will once again will Start Up & Shut Down fast with no issues again?
nice explanation. thank you
Just bought a used PC off Ebay that has two SSDs with the system partition on the disk that I want to remove so these instructions should help me move it.
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Thanks a lot man. You rock!
Happy to help!
Vielen dank für dieses video
You Recover my Datos
Thank you for the video!
Welcome GrandmaRob!
Unable to restart the computer .... Only moving the system partition doesn't work at all. How can I do now that I don't have a bootable windows ?
Same problem here. This guy should have warned BEFORE
Thank you, you helped me
Tank a lot!! I already had the OS and recovery-partition in my SSD, so I only did the first part in this video. Very happy with it!
Question: Because i skipped the latter part I am left with the letter searchway f: on my new system reserved partition and I am asking for advice if it is safe to remove the letter searchway (gives me a warning, followed by another warning when i try). Thanks!
Edit: I successfully removed it. Thanks anyway
Great videos: I have about 8 partitions in my laptop and memory is getting very slow not sure which ones should I delete to free some space:
partition ### size
partition 1 recover 1000 KB
partition 2 system 260 MB
partition 3 reserved 128 MB
partition 4 primary 215 GB
partition 5 recovery 451 MB
partition 6 recovery 350 MB
partition 7 recovery 13 GB
partition 8 OEM 7168 MB
thank you so much :). saved in my watch later video. i know there is a big chance that i will get same problem again in the future.
Glad it helped
Thanks man great video !
Glad you liked it!
Thanks it is exactly what i needed
Welcome!
I have the issue 'mbr2gpt cannot find OS partition(s) for disk 0' , thing is that I have the system reserved to disk 0 (no OS) whereas I have the OS in Disk 1 without the system reserved (just the OS+the Recovery partition only) having the exact same wrong allocation as in the video,. If I will follow this guide will the Mbr2gpt conversion work? thx
Bro, you fond a solution?
3:22 some reason my New Volume is Basic Data Patrion? not Primary like yours! and that why i cannot choose > Mark Partition as Active .... :(
ur a lifesaver, thx
Welcome!
i'm stuck at the point where i mark the new partition as "active". it doesnt allow me to do that from the GUI so does that mean I need to run a command from the prompt? and if so what would that command line be? I'm having the issue where my pc blue screens when starting from cold shutdown but will boot into windows after a hard restart. took me a while to figure out the cause and came up on your video which makes sense but whats weird is that i've had my drives set up this way for about a year now with zero issues until a few days ago. the only thing i know changed was a windows update that had installed the last time i shut it down before this problem started.
Did you solve the mark as active issue?
Hello my pc will no longer boot. Even though my windows was installed on my m.2 and my hardrive doesnt work because i disabled how do i get my nvnme to boot
What if my recovery partition is located on the disk where the OS sits already? Do I just have to inactivate the System Reserved partition and activate the recovery partition? The id of the recovery partition is already 27.
You find a solution?
And if I have GPT instead of old MBR?
how can I delete the path of the boot partition from cmd?
Thanks, it's a great help to me
Glad to hear that
For some reason it still won't boot off new system disk par. I keep having to activate disk 0 to boot back into windows. I have tried these steps multiple times. Not sure what to do at this point.
Help please my pc will no longer boot. Windows was installed on nvme but the system would boot it from hard drive. I did this now my hardrive nor nvme will boot into windows
It helped me greatly to relocate the system reserved drive to my 970 evo+ from my old ssd, but I'm having another issue prior to that. Suddenly my windows loading time has become 25-30 seconds from 3-5 seconds. Any ideas how I can mitigate this issue? after bios loading, windows logo should not be loading for 25-30 seconds in 970 evo+. FYI, all other drives are at 100% health and the nvme is as fast as day 1 in everything else except the windows loading. Thanks and any solution is appreciated.
There could be many reasons for that. Ensure SSD is first in the boot priority. Partition alignment could be another reason. Sure shot solution is fresh installation.
Thank you for the tutorial - it worked; however, my PC has become very slow and now my HDD from which I transferred the partition is always at 100% use when I open task manager. Do you know why and how to fix this issue? Please respond. Thanks.
Awesome! Excellent video! What is the 3rd party that is used to extend backwards?
mini tool or easeus
@@itarmy2778 you’re a good man! Thank you, very much! I’ll try to download one of them, whichever is hopefully free. 😏
Hello! If my recovery partition is already in the drive that i want and only want to move the system reserved, Can i skip the setid=27 part? I noticed it changed to recovery from primary when you did it.
You still should do the setid 27 for the recovery partition. Don't skip that step.
Amazing!!!