Windows 10 Home reinstalled onto HDD not on the SSD as intended

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merwil

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Hi,
Last week Windows forced the 20H2 update and it led to a Black Screen of Death, I have very slow 'broadband' speed about 500kbps, so this may have led to the files becoming corrupted.

PCS very kindly sent me a Windows ISO usb and I have managed to reinstall Windows 10 Home, but it has reinstalled it onto the 1TB HDD and not the 500GB SSD.

I can see two drives, the 1TB Seagate is now New Volume C: and the 500GB Samsung is now called Windows D: .

Please can you suggest how I remedy this?

I assume that I reinstall Windows using the usb, but how do I choose which drive to reinstall the Operating System to? I have read around the subject, a suggestion was to delete the partitions starting from the bottom up, until only one is left? Or is there a more sensible option?

Is there a waterfall diagram showing the different partitions and how one chooses the correct one?

Many thanks

Meredith

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Martinr36

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Go to disk management (right click the start button and select it from there), once in disk management you will see both your disks and they will have numbers associated with them (0 & 1) make a note of which number your SSD is, now when you run the ISO from the USB delete all partitions and then tell it the apprpriate number disc to install the OS on
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

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If the previous install was to the HDD then when you boot the installation media choose a Custom Install. You'll see your two drives listed, as @Martinr36 says, they'll simply be labelled disk 0 and disk 1 so use the disk size to tell them apart; one is 500GB the other 1TB.

Delete ALL partitions on the 500GB drive (your SSD).

On the 1TB drive (your HDD) delete ONLY the following partitions; MSR Reserved, EFI, Recovery, and Primary. There may well also be a partition on there containing the data that was on your HDD, you don't want to delete that. Be very careful here to delete the right partitions.

You should then have an SSD where all the space shows as 'unallocated space' and an HDD where there is one partition that contains your old user data, the rest of the space is shown as 'unallocated space' - we'll fix that later.

Now click on the entry for your SSD to highlight it, this indicates the drive where you want Windows installed - then click the Next button. The installer will do the rest, it will create the correct partition structure and install Windows - on whichever drive you highlighted, so make sure it's the SSD...


Once Windows is installed and you've run Windows Update repeatedly (even across reboots) until no more updates are found, you can fix the unallocated space issue on your HDD.

Go into disk management and identify your 1TB HDD in the graphical visualisation. Right click on the partition that exists on there (which contains your user data) and select 'Extend Volume'. Make the size of the volume equal to the available space on the drive. Your partition will then be extended to fill the whole drive.

When that's all completed go to the fridge, remove a beer, open it and pour it into a glass. Then sit down with the beer and relax and enjoy it. You're done! :)
 
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merwil said:
PCS very kindly sent me a Windows ISO usb and I have managed to reinstall Windows 10 Home, but it has reinstalled it onto the 1TB HDD and not the 500GB SSD.
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I always disconnect any secondary drives to avoid this mistake.
 
Martinr36

Martinr36

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ubuysa said:
If the previous install was to the HDD then when you boot the installation media choose a Custom Install. You'll see your two drives listed, as @Martinr36 says, they'll simply be labelled disk 0 and disk 1 so use the disk size to tell them apart; one is 500GB the other 1TB.

Delete ALL partitions on the 500GB drive (your SSD).

On the 1TB drive (your HDD) delete ONLY the following partitions; MSR Reserved, EFI, Recovery, and Primary. There may well also be a partition on there containing the data that was on your HDD, you don't want to delete that. Be very careful here to delete the right partitions.

You should then have an SSD where all the space shows as 'unallocated space' and an HDD where there is one partition that contains your old user data, the rest of the space is shown as 'unallocated space' - we'll fix that later.

Now click on the entry for your SSD to highlight it, this indicates the drive where you want Windows installed - then click the Next button. The installer will do the rest, it will create the correct partition structure and install Windows - on whichever drive you highlighted, so make sure it's the SSD...


Once Windows is installed and you've run Windows Update repeatedly (even across reboots) until no more updates are found, you can fix the unallocated space issue on your HDD.

Go into disk management and identify your 1TB HDD in the graphical visualisation. Right click on the partition that exists on there (which contains your user data) and select 'Extend Volume'. Make the size of the volume equal to the available space on the drive. Your partition will then be extended to fill the whole drive.

When that's all completed go to the fridge, remove a beer, open it and pour it into a glass. Then sit down with the beer and relax and enjoy it. You're done! :)
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Very well explained, especially the last paragraph..............
 
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