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May 3rd, 2017 21:00
Problem getting new SSD to boot normally
OK. I purchased a Dell Precision m7710 mobile workstation with a 500 GB mechanical drive, running Windows 10. I created a recovery drive to a USB stick. I then installed all my programs. After that, I installed a 500MB m.2 SSD drive in one of the available slots. I cloned the hard drive to the m.2 drive, and I replaced the mechanical SATA drive with another larger, blank mechanical drive. The intent here is that I have both a recovery drive and a fully functional backup hard drive with all my programs installed in case of a failure.
However, now when I boot, it goes into repair mode, and brings me to repair options. I can say boot from device, and specify the SSD, and it boots normally from there. So my thought was to boot my recovery drive USB stick and use Repair Startup. Problem is that when I do that, instead of listing Windows 10, it lists ONLY Windows 8.1.
At this point, I am stuck and would appreciate any suggestions for next steps. Thanks.
DELL-Jesse L
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May 4th, 2017 08:00
Peticolas5000,
You should perform a clean install of Windows 10 on the replacement drive. Different hardware is added so the clone you created is different and you will need to perform a clean install.
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May 4th, 2017 09:00
Thanks for the response, Jesse. Of course, that is what I was trying to avoid, since the SSD boot drive has all my applications installed.
Is this really necessary? The system works fine once it is booted. It does not throw any errors, and runs all applications normally. The only different hardware added was the replacement mechanical drive. I was thinking there must be some way to tweak the startup so it didn't boot to the repair options. It seems to me that Windows is just not seeing the boot partition on the SSD, but when I point to it in repair options, it all works fine.